Structural and functional consequences of galactolipids on thylakoid membrane organization |
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Authors: | Sallie G Sprague |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Biochemistry, West Virginia University, School of Medicine, 26506 Morgantown, West Virginia |
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Abstract: | Photosynthetic membranes of higher plant chloroplasts are composed primarily of polar, but uncharged, galactolipids unlike most mammalian membranes which contain large amounts of phosphatidylcholine. It is unclear what role(s) the galactolipids play in maintaining the differentiated thylakoid membranes, or in stabilizing the photosynthetically active enzyme complexes. Some of the membrane complexes show no lipid selectivity for maintaining structural or functional integrity. Others are poisoned or dissociated in the presence of high concentrations of a trace lipid class. The efficiency of energy transfer and the reconstitution of protein complexes into liposomes are dependent on the lipid class employed. The lipids are asymmetrically arranged along and across the thylakoid membranes but not as distinctly as the proteins.Abbreviations DGDG
digalactosyldiglyceride
- MGDG
monogalactosyldiglyceride
- SQDG
sulfoquinovosyldiglyceride
- PG
phosphatidylglycerol
- PC
phosphatidylcholine
- PE
phosphatidylethanolamine
- PSI
photosystem I
- PSII
photosystem II
- LHC
chlorophylla/b lightharvesting complex
- cytb
6
f
cytochromeb
6
f complex
- CF0/CF1
coupling factor ATPase
- DCIP
2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol
- LRa
galactolipase fromRhizopus arrhis |
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Keywords: | Galactolipids photosynthesis chloroplast membranes structure function reconstitution fusion liposomes lipases |
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