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Dedner N, Meyer HE, Ashton C, Wildner GF. N-terminal sequence analysis of the 8 kDa protein inChlamydomonas reinhardiiLocalization of the phosphothreonine. FEBS Lett 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(88)80288-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Schröder WP, Henrysson T, Åkerlund HE. Characterization of low molecular mass proteins of photosystem II by N-terminal sequencing. FEBS Lett 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(88)81281-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Allen JF, Forsberg J. Molecular recognition in thylakoid structure and function. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2001; 6:317-26. [PMID: 11435171 DOI: 10.1016/s1360-1385(01)02010-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 278] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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In photosynthesis, light-harvesting chlorophyll molecules are shunted between photosystems by phosphorylation of the protein to which they are bound. An anchor for the phosphorylated chlorophyll-protein complex has now been identified in the reaction centre of chloroplast photosystem I. This finding supports the idea that molecular recognition, not membrane surface charge, governs the architecture of the chloroplast thylakoid membrane. We describe a model for the chloroplast thylakoid membrane that is consistent with recent structural data that specify the relative dimensions of intrinsic protein complexes and their dispositions within the membrane. Control of molecular recognition accommodates membrane stacking, lateral heterogeneity and regulation of light-harvesting function by means of protein phosphorylation during state transitions--adaptations that compensate for selective excitation of photosystem I or photosystem II. High-resolution structural description of membrane protein-protein interactions is now required to understand thylakoid structure and regulation of photosynthesis.
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- J F Allen
- Plant Biochemistry, Lund University, Box 117, SE-221 00, Lund, Sweden.
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O'Connor HE, Ruffle SV, Cain AJ, Deak Z, Vass I, Nugent JH, Purton S. The 9-kDa phosphoprotein of photosystem II. Generation and characterisation of Chlamydomonas mutants lacking PSII-H and a site-directed mutant lacking the phosphorylation site. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1998; 1364:63-72. [PMID: 9554956 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(98)00013-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The chloroplast gene psbH encodes a 9-10 kDa thylakoid membrane protein (PSII-H) that is associated with photosystem II and is subject to light-dependent phosphorylation at a threonine residue located on the stromal side of the membrane. The function of PSII-H is not known, neither is it clear what regulatory role phosphorylation may play in the control of PSII activity. Using particle gun-mediated transformation, we have created chloroplast transformants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in which the synthesis of PSII-H is prevented by the disruption of psbH, or in which the phosphorylatable threonine is replaced by alanine through site-directed mutagenesis of the gene. The mutants lacking PSII-H have a photosystem II-deficient phenotype, with no detectable functioning PSII complex present in whole cells or isolated thylakoid membranes. In contrast, the alanine mutant (T3A) grows photoautotrophically, and PSII activity is comparable to wild-type cells as determined by various biochemical and biophysical assays.
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- H E O'Connor
- UCL Photosynthesis Group, Department of Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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Stys D, Stancek M, Cheng L, Allen JF. Complex formation in plant thylakoid membranes. Competition studies on membrane protein interactions using synthetic peptide fragments. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 1995; 44:277-285. [PMID: 24307098 DOI: 10.1007/bf00048601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/1994] [Accepted: 04/27/1995] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Thylakoid membranes of pea were used to study competition between extra-membrane fragments and their parental membrane-bound proteins. Phosphorylated and unphosphorylated fragments of light harvesting complex II (LHC II) from higher plants were used to compete with LHC II for interactions with itself and with other thylakoid protein complexes. Effects of these peptide fragments of LHC II and of control peptides were followed by 80 K chlorophyll fluorescence spectroscopy of isolated thylakoids. The phosphorylated LHC II fragment competes with membrane-bound phosphoproteins in the phosphatase reaction. The same fragment accelerates the process of dark-to-light adaptation and decreases the rate of the light-to-dark adaptation when these are followed by fluorescence spectroscopy. In contrast, the non-phosphorylated LHC II peptide does not affect the rate of adaptation but produces results consistent with inhibition of formation of a quenching complex. In this quenching complex we propose that LHC II remains inaccessible to the LHC II kinase, explaining an observed decrease in LHC II phosphorylation in the later stages of the time-course of phosphorylation. The most conspicuous protein which is steadily phosphorylated during the time-course of phosphorylation is the 9 kDa (psbH) protein. The participation of the phosphorylated form of psbH in the quenching complex, where it is inaccessible to the phosphatase, may explain its anomalously slow dephosphorylation. The significance of the proposed complex of LHC II with phospho-psbH is discussed.
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- D Stys
- Plant Cell Biology, Lund University, Box 7007, S-220 07, Lund, Sweden
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Andersson B, Barber J. Composition, Organization, and Dynamics of Thylakoid Membranes. MOLECULAR PROCESSES OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s1569-2558(08)60394-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Debus RJ. The manganese and calcium ions of photosynthetic oxygen evolution. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1992; 1102:269-352. [PMID: 1390827 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(92)90133-m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 970] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- R J Debus
- Department of Biochemistry, University of California Riverside 92521-0129
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Allen JF. Protein phosphorylation in regulation of photosynthesis. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1992; 1098:275-335. [PMID: 1310622 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(09)91014-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 498] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- J F Allen
- Department of Biology, University of Oslo, Blindern, Norway
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Andersson B, Franzén LG. Chapter 5 The two photosystems of oxygenic photosynthesis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7306(08)60173-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/19/2023]
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de Vitry C, Diner B, Popo J. Photosystem II particles from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Purification, molecular weight, small subunit composition, and protein phosphorylation. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)55345-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Smith AG, Wilson RM, Kaethner TM, Willey DL, Gray JC. Pea chloroplast genes encoding a 4 kDa polypeptide of photosystem I and a putative enzyme of C1 metabolism. Curr Genet 1991; 19:403-10. [PMID: 1913879 DOI: 10.1007/bf00309603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The nucleotide sequence of 3.2 kbp of pea chloroplast DNA located upstream from the petA gene for cytochrome f, and previously reported to contain the gene for a photosystem I polypeptide, has been determined. Three open reading frames of 587, 40 and 157 codons have been identified. Orf40 encodes a highly conserved, hydrophobic, membrane-spanning polypeptide, and is identified as the gene psaI for the 4 kDa subunit of photosystem I. Orf587 is an extended version of the gene zfpA previously identified as encoding a conserved putative zinc-finger protein. The product of orf587 shows extensive homology to an unidentified open reading frame cotranscribed with a gene for folate metabolism in Escherichia coli and local homology to a region of the beta subunit of rat mitochondrial propionyl-CoA carboxylase. It is suggested that the product of orf587 is an enzyme of C1 metabolism and is unlikely to be a regulatory DNA-binding protein. Orf157 potentially encodes an unidentified basic protein, but the protein sequence is not conserved in other plants.
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- A G Smith
- Botany School, University of Cambridge, UK
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Hird SM, Webber AN, Wilson RJ, Dyer TA, Gray JC. Differential expression of the psbB and psbH genes encoding the 47 kDa chlorophyll a-protein and the 10 kDa phosphoprotein of photosystem II during chloroplast development in wheat. Curr Genet 1991; 19:199-206. [PMID: 1714358 DOI: 10.1007/bf00336487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The nucleotide sequence of a region of wheat chloroplast DNA containing the psbB gene for the 47 kDa chlorophyll a-binding protein of photosystem II has been determined. The gene encodes a polypeptide of 508 amino acid residues which is predicted to contain six hydrophobic membrane-spanning regions. The psbB gene is located 562 bp upstream of the psbH gene for the 10 kDa phosphoprotein of photosystem II. A small open reading frame of 38 codons is located between psbB and psbH, and on the opposite strand the psbN gene, encoding a photosystem II polypeptide of 43 amino acid residues, is located between orf38 and psbH. S1 nuclease mapping indicated that the 5' ends of transcripts were located 371 and 183 bp upstream of the psbB translation initiation codon. Predominant transcripts of 2.1 kb and 1.8 kb for psbB and 0.4 kb for psbH were present in RNA isolated from etiolated and greening wheat seedlings. Immunodecoration of Western blots indicated that the 47 kDa polypeptide was absent, or present in very low amounts, in dark-grown tissue and accumulated on greening, whereas the 10 kDa polypeptide was present in similar amounts in both dark-grown and greening seedlings. The 10 kDa polypeptide was phosphorylated in vitro by incubating wheat etioplast membranes with [gamma 32P] ATP.
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- S M Hird
- Botany School, University of Cambridge, UK
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Hodges M, Miginiac-Maslow M, Le Maréchal P, Rémy R. The ATP-dependent post translational modification of ferredoxin: NADP+ oxidoreductase. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1990; 1052:446-52. [PMID: 2191725 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4889(90)90154-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Incubation of thylakoids with purified FNR and [32P]ATP led to the incorporation of phosphate into the FNR. In the absence of added FNR, 32P-labelled FNR could be detected associated with the thylakoids. An amino-acid analysis showed that in the dark, the FNR could be phosphorylated on a serine residue. In the presence of thylakoids, the FNR contained a threonine phosphate which was associated with a light-dependent reaction. The physiological function of this phosphorylation is not clear. Some modifications in NADP(+)-dependent photosystem I (PSI) activity and FNR-membrane association have been observed on the addition of ATP. Whether these changes are linked to the phosphorylation of the FNR remain to be fully elucidated.
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- M Hodges
- Laboratoire de Physiologie Végétale Moléculaire, CNRS (UA1128), Université de Paris Sud, Orsay, France
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Hansson O, Wydrzynski T. Current perceptions of Photosystem II. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 1990; 23:131-162. [PMID: 24421057 DOI: 10.1007/bf00035006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/1989] [Accepted: 06/05/1989] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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In the last few years our knowledge of the structure and function of Photosystem II in oxygen-evolving organisms has increased significantly. The biochemical isolation and characterization of essential protein components and the comparative analysis from purple photosynthetic bacteria (Deisenhofer, Epp, Miki, Huber and Michel (1984) J Mol Biol 180: 385-398) have led to a more concise picture of Photosystem II organization. Thus, it is now generally accepted that the so-called D1 and D2 intrinsic proteins bind the primary reactants and the reducing-side components. Simultaneously, the nature and reaction kinetics of the major electron transfer components have been further clarified. For example, the radicals giving rise to the different forms of EPR Signal II have recently been assigned to oxidized tyrosine residues on the D1 and D2 proteins, while the so-called Q400 component has been assigned to the ferric form of the acceptor-side iron. The primary charge-separation has been meaured to take place in about 3 ps. However, despite all recent major efforts, the location of the manganese ions and the water-oxidation mechanism still remain largely unknown. Other topics which lately have received much attention include the organization of Photosystem II in the thylakoid membrane and the role of lipids and ionic cofactors like bicarbonate, calcium and chloride. This article attempts to give an overall update in this rapidly expanding field.
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- O Hansson
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Chalmers University of Technology, S-412 96, Göteborg, Sweden
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Wallace TP, Stewart AC, Pappin D, Howe CJ. Gene sequence for the 9 kDa component of Photosystem II from the cyanobacterium Phormidium laminosum indicates similarities between cyanobacterial and other leader sequences. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1989; 216:334-9. [PMID: 2501648 DOI: 10.1007/bf00334373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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A 9 kDa polypeptide which is loosely attached to the inner surface of the thylakoid membrane and is important for the oxygen-evolving activity of Photosystem II in the thermophilic cyanobacterium Phormidium laminosum has been purified, a partial amino acid sequence obtained and its gene cloned and sequenced. The derived amino acid sequence indicates that the 9 kDa polypeptide is initially synthesised with an N-terminal leader sequence of 44 amino acids to direct it across the thylakoid membrane. The leader sequence consists of a positively charged N-terminal region, a long hydrophobic region and a typical cleavage site. These features have analogous counterparts in the "thylakoid-transfer domain" of lumenal polypeptides from chloroplasts of higher plants. These findings support the view of the proposed function of this domain in the two-stage processing model for import of lumenal, nuclear-encoded polypeptides. In addition, there is striking primary sequence homology between the leader sequences of the 9 kDa polypeptide and those of alkaline phosphatase (from the periplasmic space of Escherichia coli) and, particularly in the region of the cleavage site, the 16 kDa polypeptide of the oxygen-evolving apparatus in the thylakoid lumen of spinach chloroplasts.
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- T P Wallace
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK
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Koike H, Mamada K, Ikeuchi M, Inoue Y. Low-molecular-mass proteins in cyanobacterial photosystem II: identification of psbH and psbK gene products by N-terminal sequencing. FEBS Lett 1989; 244:391-6. [PMID: 2493396 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(89)80570-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The O2-evolving photosystem II core complex was isolated from a thermophilic cyanobacterium, Synechococcus vulcanus Copeland. Analysis by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed that the complex contained at least seven low-molecular-mass proteins in addition to the well characterized CP47 apoprotein, CP43 apoprotein, 33 kDa extrinsic protein, D1 protein, D2 protein and large subunit of cytochrome b-559. The separation of these low-molecular-mass proteins were very similar between cyanobacterial and higher plant PS II. N-terminal sequences of the 6.5 kDa and 3.9 kDa proteins of cyanobacterial core complex were determined after blotting to a polyvinylidene difluoride membrane. The sequence of the 6.5 kDa protein showed high homology with an internal sequence of plant psbH gene product, so-called 10 kDa phosphoprotein, but did not conserve the Thr residue which is specifically phosphorylated in plants. The sequence of the 3.9 kDa protein corresponded to the K protein of higher plants (mature form of psbK gene product). These results indicate that the products of both psbH and psbK genes are present in cyanobacterial PS II as well as being associated with the O2-evolving core complex.
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- H Koike
- Solar Energy Research Group, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Saitama, Japan
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Webber AN, Hird SM, Packman LC, Dyer TA, Gray JC. A photosystem II polypeptide is encoded by an open reading frame co-transcribed with genes for cytochrome b-559 in wheat chloroplast DNA. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1989; 12:141-151. [PMID: 24272793 DOI: 10.1007/bf00020499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/1988] [Accepted: 10/19/1988] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The N-terminal amino acid sequence of a 3.2 kDa photosystem II polypeptide is shown to be identical to that of a polypeptide encoded by an open reading frame of 38 codons (orf38) in wheat chloroplast DNA. Orf38 is located just downstream of the psbE and psbF genes for the polypeptides of cytochrome b-559. Analysis of the transcription of this region of chloroplast DNA shows that psbE, psbF and orf38 are co-transcribed to give a 1.1 kb polycistronic transcript which also contains another open reading frame of 40 codons. The orf38 and orf40 products are hydrophobic polypeptides which are both predicted to span the thylakoid membrane once. Orf38 and orf40 are highly conserved, and map to similar locations adjacent to psbE and psbF, in all organisms from which this region of DNA has been sequenced. We propose that orf38 is named psbL.
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- A N Webber
- Department of Botany, University of Cambridge, CB2 3EA, Cambridge, UK
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Ohyama K, Fukuzawa H, Kohchi T, Sano T, Sano S, Shirai H, Umesono K, Shiki Y, Takeuchi M, Chang Z. Structure and organization of Marchantia polymorpha chloroplast genome. I. Cloning and gene identification. J Mol Biol 1988; 203:281-98. [PMID: 2462054 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(88)90001-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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We have determined the complete nucleotide sequence of chloroplast DNA from a liverwort, Marchantia polymorpha, using a clone bank of chloroplast DNA fragments. The circular genome consists of 121,024 base-pairs and includes two large inverted repeats (IRA and IRB, each 10,058 base-pairs), a large single-copy region (LSC, 81,095 base-pairs), and a small single-copy region (SSC, 19,813 base-pairs). The nucleotide sequence was analysed with a computer to deduce the entire gene organization, assuming the universal genetic code and the presence of introns in the coding sequences. We detected 136 possible genes. 103 gene products of which are related to known stable RNA or protein molecules. Stable RNA genes for four species of ribosomal RNA and 32 species of tRNA were located, although one of the tRNA genes may be defective. Twenty genes encoding polypeptides involved in photosynthesis and electron transport were identified by comparison with known chloroplast genes. Twenty-five open reading frames (ORFs) show structural similarities to Escherichia coli RNA polymerase subunits, 19 ribosomal proteins and two related proteins. Seven ORFs are comparable with human mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase genes. A computer-aided homology search predicted possible chloroplast homologues of bacterial proteins; two ORFs for bacterial 4Fe-4S-type ferredoxin, two for distinct subunits of a protein-dependent transport system, one ORF for a component of nitrogenase, and one for an antenna protein of a light-harvesting complex. The other 33 ORFs, consisting of 29 to 2136 codons, remain to be identified, but some of them seem to be conserved in evolution. Detailed information on gene identification is presented in the accompanying papers. We postulated that there were 22 introns in 20 genes (8 tRNA genes and 12 ORFs), which may be classified into the groups I and II found in fungal mitochondrial genes. The structural gene for ribosomal protein S12 is trans-split on the opposite DNA strand. The universal genetic code was confirmed by the substitution pattern of simultaneous codons, and by possible codon recognition of the chloroplast-encoded tRNA molecules, assuming no importation of tRNA molecules from the cytoplasm. The nucleotide residue A or T is preferred at the third position of the codons (G+C, 11.9%) and in intergenic spacers (G+C, 19.5%), resulting in an overall G+C content that is low (28.8%) throughout the liverwort chloroplast genome. Possible gene expression signals such as promoters and terminators for transcription, predicted locations of gene products, and DNA replicative origins are discussed.
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- K Ohyama
- Research Center for Cell and Tissue Culture, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan
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Fukuzawa H, Kohchi T, Sano T, Shirai H, Umesono K, Inokuchi H, Ozeki H, Ohyama K. Structure and organization of Marchantia polymorpha chloroplast genome. III. Gene organization of the large single copy region from rbcL to trnI(CAU). J Mol Biol 1988; 203:333-51. [PMID: 3199436 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(88)90003-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The nucleotide sequence (25,320 base-pairs) of a part of the large single-copy region of chloroplast DNA from the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha was determined. This region encodes putative genes for four tRNAs, isoleucine tRNA(CAU), arginine tRNA(CCG), proline tRNA(UGG) and tryptophan tRNA(CCA); eight photosynthetic polypeptides, the large subunit of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (rbcL), 51,000 Mr photosystem II chlorophyll alpha apoprotein (psbB), apocytochrome b-559 polypeptides (psbE and psbF), 10,000 Mr phosphoprotein (psbH), cytochrome f preprotein (petA), cytochrome b6 polypeptide (petB), and cytochrome b6/f complex subunit 4 polypeptide (petD); 13 ribosomal proteins (L2, L14, L16, L20, L22, L23, L33, S3, S8, S11, S12, S18 and S19); initiation factor 1 (infA); ribosome-associating polypeptide (secX); and alpha subunit of RNA polymerase (rpoA). Functionally related genes were located in several clusters in this region of the genome. There were two ribosomal protein gene clusters: rpl23-rpl2-rps19-rpl22-rps3-rpl16-+ ++rpl14-rps8-infA-secX-rps11-rpoA, with a gene arrangement similar to that of the Escherichia coli S10-spc-alpha operons, and the rps12'-rpl20-rps18-rpl33 cluster. There were gene clusters encoding photosynthesis components such as the psbB-psbH-petB-petD and the psbE-psbF clusters. Thirteen open reading frames, ranging in length from 31 to 434 amino acid residues, remain to be identified.
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- H Fukuzawa
- Research Center for Cell and Tissue Culture, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan
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Nucleotide sequence of cDNA clones encoding the complete precursor for the “10-kDa” polypeptide of photosystem II from spinach. J Biol Chem 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)81479-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Packham NK. Is the 9 kDa thylakoid membrane phosphoprotein functionally and structurally analogous to the 'H' subunit of bacterial reaction centres? FEBS Lett 1988; 231:284-90. [PMID: 3282925 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(88)80835-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Although the amino acid sequence of the 9 kDa (phospho)protein of chloroplasts has been determined, the function of this thylakoid membrane protein in photosynthetic electron transport and the reason for its physiological control remains unclear. In this paper, I briefly review the evidence which indicates that the phosphorylation of the 9 kDa protein results in a partial inhibition of photosynthetic oxygen evolution by increasing the stability of the semiquinone bound to QA the primary, plastoquinone-binding site of photosystem II (PS II). I propose that in its dephosphorylated state, the 9 kDa thylakoid membrane protein may serve PS II to ensure efficient photochemical charge separation by aiding the transfer of reducing equivalents out of the reaction centre to the attendant plastoquinone pool. This function is analogous to that proposed for the H-subunit of the reaction centre of photosynthetic eubacteria. Whether these two proteins have evolved from a common ancestral reaction centre protein is discussed in the light of a comparison of their amino acid sequences and predicted secondary structures.
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- N K Packham
- Department of Biochemistry, The University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
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Michel H, Hunt DF, Shabanowitz J, Bennett J. Tandem mass spectrometry reveals that three photosystem II proteins of spinach chloroplasts contain N-acetyl-O-phosphothreonine at their NH2 termini. J Biol Chem 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)57275-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Hodges M, Boussac A, Briantais JM. Thylakoid membrane protein phosphorylation modifies the equilibrium between Photosystem II quinone electron acceptors. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(87)90183-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Phosphorylation of the 9 kDa Photosystem II-associated protein and the inhibition of photosynthetic electron transport. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(87)90047-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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