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Huang X, Vasilev C, Swainsbury D, Hunter C. Excitation energy transfer in proteoliposomes reconstituted with LH2 and RC-LH1 complexes from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Biosci Rep 2024; 44:BSR20231302. [PMID: 38227291 PMCID: PMC10876425 DOI: 10.1042/bsr20231302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2023] [Revised: 12/30/2023] [Accepted: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 01/17/2024] Open
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Light-harvesting 2 (LH2) and reaction-centre light-harvesting 1 (RC-LH1) complexes purified from the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter (Rba.) sphaeroides were reconstituted into proteoliposomes either separately, or together at three different LH2:RC-LH1 ratios, for excitation energy transfer studies. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) was used to investigate the distribution and association of the complexes within the proteoliposome membranes. Absorption and fluorescence emission spectra were similar for LH2 complexes in detergent and liposomes, indicating that reconstitution retains the structural and optical properties of the LH2 complexes. Analysis of fluorescence emission shows that when LH2 forms an extensive series of contacts with other such complexes, fluorescence is quenched by 52.6 ± 1.4%. In mixed proteoliposomes, specific excitation of carotenoids in LH2 donor complexes resulted in emission of fluorescence from acceptor RC-LH1 complexes engineered to assemble with no carotenoids. Extents of energy transfer were measured by fluorescence lifetime microscopy; the 0.72 ± 0.08 ns lifetime in LH2-only membranes decreases to 0.43 ± 0.04 ns with a ratio of 2:1 LH2 to RC-LH1, and to 0.35 ± 0.05 ns for a 1:1 ratio, corresponding to energy transfer efficiencies of 40 ± 14% and 51 ± 18%, respectively. No further improvement is seen with a 0.5:1 LH2 to RC-LH1 ratio. Thus, LH2 and RC-LH1 complexes perform their light harvesting and energy transfer roles when reconstituted into proteoliposomes, providing a way to integrate native, non-native, engineered and de novo designed light-harvesting complexes into functional photosynthetic systems.
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- Xia Huang
- Department of Biological Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China
- Jinan Guoke Medical Technology Development Co., Ltd, Jinan, Shandong 250101, China
- School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, U.K
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- School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, U.K
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- School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, U.K
- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K
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- School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, U.K
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Xin J, Shi Y, Zhang X, Yuan X, Xin Y, He H, Shen J, Blankenship RE, Xu X. Carotenoid assembly regulates quinone diffusion and the Roseiflexus castenholzii reaction center-light harvesting complex architecture. eLife 2023; 12:e88951. [PMID: 37737710 PMCID: PMC10516601 DOI: 10.7554/elife.88951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2023] [Accepted: 08/16/2023] [Indexed: 09/23/2023] Open
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Carotenoid (Car) pigments perform central roles in photosynthesis-related light harvesting (LH), photoprotection, and assembly of functional pigment-protein complexes. However, the relationships between Car depletion in the LH, assembly of the prokaryotic reaction center (RC)-LH complex, and quinone exchange are not fully understood. Here, we analyzed native RC-LH (nRC-LH) and Car-depleted RC-LH (dRC-LH) complexes in Roseiflexus castenholzii, a chlorosome-less filamentous anoxygenic phototroph that forms the deepest branch of photosynthetic bacteria. Newly identified exterior Cars functioned with the bacteriochlorophyll B800 to block the proposed quinone channel between LHαβ subunits in the nRC-LH, forming a sealed LH ring that was disrupted by transmembrane helices from cytochrome c and subunit X to allow quinone shuttling. dRC-LH lacked subunit X, leading to an exposed LH ring with a larger opening, which together accelerated the quinone exchange rate. We also assigned amino acid sequences of subunit X and two hypothetical proteins Y and Z that functioned in forming the quinone channel and stabilizing the RC-LH interactions. This study reveals the structural basis by which Cars assembly regulates the architecture and quinone exchange of bacterial RC-LH complexes. These findings mark an important step forward in understanding the evolution and diversity of prokaryotic photosynthetic apparatus.
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- Jiyu Xin
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences and The Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal UniversityHangzhouChina
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- Liangzhu Laboratory, MOE Frontier Science Center for Brain Science and Brain-machine Integration, State Key Laboratory of Brain-machine Intelligence & Department of Neurobiology and Department of Pathology of the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Zhejiang UniversityHangzhouChina
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences and The Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal UniversityHangzhouChina
- Photosynthesis Research Center, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal UniversityHangzhouChina
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences and The Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal UniversityHangzhouChina
- Photosynthesis Research Center, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal UniversityHangzhouChina
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal UniversityHangzhouChina
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal UniversityHangzhouChina
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences and The Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal UniversityHangzhouChina
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- Departments of Biology and Chemistry, Washington University in St. LouisSt. LouisUnited States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences and The Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal UniversityHangzhouChina
- Photosynthesis Research Center, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal UniversityHangzhouChina
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Evaluation of Growth and Utilization Potential of Rhodobacter sphaeroides in Reused Medium. Mol Biotechnol 2023; 65:441-445. [PMID: 35982379 DOI: 10.1007/s12033-022-00553-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2022] [Accepted: 08/09/2022] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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Rhodobacter sphaeroides is a metabolically versatile purple non-sulfur bacteria that can produce valuable substances. As the low-cost and high-efficiency production of valuable substances is attracting attention, the reuse of the medium is emerging as a promising strategy. Therefore, in this study, the growth of R. sphaeroides was evaluated by reusing the medium of Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. As a result, in the reuse of the medium in which S. cerevisiae was cultured, sufficient growth of R. sphaeroides could be confirmed, and especially, the growth of R. sphaeroides was not inhibited under aerobic conditions. Therefore, it is considered that the strategy of reusing the medium of S. cerevisiae is sufficiently feasible. Of the organic compounds investigated, R. sphaeroides grew best in succinic acid, followed by malic acid, citric acid, acetic acid, and glucose. In addition, by comparing photopigment synthesis in the reused medium, we propose the hypothesis that succinic acid may play an important role in photopigment synthesis for the first time.
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Liu XL, Hu YY, Li K, Chen MQ, Wang P. Reconstituted LH2 in multilayer membranes induced by poly-L-lysine: structure of supramolecular and electronic states. ARAB J CHEM 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.arabjc.2023.104600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Sutherland GA, Qian P, Hunter CN, Swainsbury DJ, Hitchcock A. Engineering purple bacterial carotenoid biosynthesis to study the roles of carotenoids in light-harvesting complexes. Methods Enzymol 2022; 674:137-184. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2022.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Chromatophores efficiently promote light-driven ATP synthesis and DNA transcription inside hybrid multicompartment artificial cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:2012170118. [PMID: 33526592 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2012170118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The construction of energetically autonomous artificial protocells is one of the most ambitious goals in bottom-up synthetic biology. Here, we show an efficient manner to build adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP) synthesizing hybrid multicompartment protocells. Bacterial chromatophores from Rhodobacter sphaeroides accomplish the photophosphorylation of adenosine 5'-diphosphate (ADP) to ATP, functioning as nanosized photosynthetic organellae when encapsulated inside artificial giant phospholipid vesicles (ATP production rate up to ∼100 ATP∙s-1 per ATP synthase). The chromatophore morphology and the orientation of the photophosphorylation proteins were characterized by cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and time-resolved spectroscopy. The freshly synthesized ATP has been employed for sustaining the transcription of a DNA gene, following the RNA biosynthesis inside individual vesicles by confocal microscopy. The hybrid multicompartment approach here proposed is very promising for the construction of full-fledged artificial protocells because it relies on easy-to-obtain and ready-to-use chromatophores, paving the way for artificial simplified-autotroph protocells (ASAPs).
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Liu S, Daigger GT, Kang J, Zhang G. Effects of light intensity and photoperiod on pigments production and corresponding key gene expression of Rhodopseudomonas palustris in a photobioreactor system. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2019; 294:122172. [PMID: 31606599 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2019] [Revised: 09/17/2019] [Accepted: 09/18/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Light intensity and photoperiod significantly affect Rhodopseudomonas palustris growth and pigments production and their optimization is necessary for pigment biosynthesis. In this study, the impacts of different light intensity and light/dark cycles were investigated on biomass, carotenoids, bacteriochlorophyll production, together with pollutant removal, in a photobioreactor system. Results showed that R. palustris had the highest carotenoids and bacteriochlorophyll productions with light intensity of 150 μmol-photons/m2/s and light/dark cycle of 4/2 (16 h/8h). The corresponding values were 1.94 mg/g-biomass and 1.17 mg/g-biomass, respectively. The effects of light/dark cycle on crtA and bchE gene expression in pigments biosynthesis were also studied. Mechanism analysis revealed that carotenoids and bacteriochlorophyll yields represented good synergistic effect, which was consistent with the up-regulation of crtA and bchE gene expressions under optimal light/dark cycle of 4/2.
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- Shuli Liu
- School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou 450000, China; Henan Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation and Treatment, Zhengzhou 450046, China; Henan Engineering Research Center of Water Pollution and Soil Damage Remediation, Zhengzhou 450046, China.
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- Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, 2350 Hayward St, G.G. Brown Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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- School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou 450000, China; Henan Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation and Treatment, Zhengzhou 450046, China; Henan Engineering Research Center of Water Pollution and Soil Damage Remediation, Zhengzhou 450046, China
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- School of Environment & Natural Resource, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China.
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LaSarre B, Kysela DT, Stein BD, Ducret A, Brun YV, McKinlay JB. Restricted Localization of Photosynthetic Intracytoplasmic Membranes (ICMs) in Multiple Genera of Purple Nonsulfur Bacteria. mBio 2018; 9:e00780-18. [PMID: 29970460 PMCID: PMC6030561 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00780-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2018] [Accepted: 06/06/2018] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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In bacteria and eukaryotes alike, proper cellular physiology relies on robust subcellular organization. For the phototrophic purple nonsulfur bacteria (PNSB), this organization entails the use of a light-harvesting, membrane-bound compartment known as the intracytoplasmic membrane (ICM). Here we show that ICMs are spatially and temporally localized in diverse patterns among PNSB. We visualized ICMs in live cells of 14 PNSB species across nine genera by exploiting the natural autofluorescence of the photosynthetic pigment bacteriochlorophyll (BChl). We then quantitatively characterized ICM localization using automated computational analysis of BChl fluorescence patterns within single cells across the population. We revealed that while many PNSB elaborate ICMs along the entirety of the cell, species across as least two genera restrict ICMs to discrete, nonrandom sites near cell poles in a manner coordinated with cell growth and division. Phylogenetic and phenotypic comparisons established that ICM localization and ICM architecture are not strictly interdependent and that neither trait fully correlates with the evolutionary relatedness of the species. The natural diversity of ICM localization revealed herein has implications for both the evolution of phototrophic organisms and their light-harvesting compartments and the mechanisms underpinning spatial organization of bacterial compartments.IMPORTANCE Many bacteria organize their cellular space by constructing subcellular compartments that are arranged in specific, physiologically relevant patterns. The purple nonsulfur bacteria (PNSB) utilize a membrane-bound compartment known as the intracytoplasmic membrane (ICM) to harvest light for photosynthesis. It was previously unknown whether ICM localization within cells is systematic or irregular and if ICM localization is conserved among PNSB. Here we surveyed ICM localization in diverse PNSB and show that ICMs are spatially organized in species-specific patterns. Most strikingly, several PNSB resolutely restrict ICMs to regions near the cell poles, leaving much of the cell devoid of light-harvesting machinery. Our results demonstrate that bacteria of a common lifestyle utilize unequal portions of their intracellular space to harvest light, despite light harvesting being a process that is intuitively influenced by surface area. Our findings therefore raise fundamental questions about ICM biology and evolution.
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- Breah LaSarre
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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Swainsbury DJK, Scheidelaar S, Foster N, van Grondelle R, Killian JA, Jones MR. The effectiveness of styrene-maleic acid (SMA) copolymers for solubilisation of integral membrane proteins from SMA-accessible and SMA-resistant membranes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA. BIOMEMBRANES 2017; 1859:2133-2143. [PMID: 28751090 PMCID: PMC5593810 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2017.07.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2017] [Revised: 07/14/2017] [Accepted: 07/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Solubilisation of biological lipid bilayer membranes for analysis of their protein complement has traditionally been carried out using detergents, but there is increasing interest in the use of amphiphilic copolymers such as styrene maleic acid (SMA) for the solubilisation, purification and characterisation of integral membrane proteins in the form of protein/lipid nanodiscs. Here we survey the effectiveness of various commercially-available formulations of the SMA copolymer in solubilising Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction centres (RCs) from photosynthetic membranes. We find that formulations of SMA with a 2:1 or 3:1 ratio of styrene to maleic acid are almost as effective as detergent in solubilising RCs, with the best solubilisation by short chain variants (<30kDa weight average molecular weight). The effectiveness of 10kDa 2:1 and 3:1 formulations of SMA to solubilise RCs gradually declined when genetically-encoded coiled-coil bundles were used to artificially tether normally monomeric RCs into dimeric, trimeric and tetrameric multimers. The ability of SMA to solubilise reaction centre-light harvesting 1 (RC-LH1) complexes from densely packed and highly ordered photosynthetic membranes was uniformly low, but could be increased through a variety of treatments to increase the lipid:protein ratio. However, proteins isolated from such membranes comprised clusters of complexes in small membrane patches rather than individual proteins. We conclude that short-chain 2:1 and 3:1 formulations of SMA are the most effective in solubilising integral membrane proteins, but that solubilisation efficiencies are strongly influenced by the size of the target protein and the density of packing of proteins in the membrane.
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- David J K Swainsbury
- School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, Biomedical Sciences Building, University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TD, United Kingdom
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- Membrane Biochemistry & Biophysics, Utrecht University, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, Biomedical Sciences Building, University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TD, United Kingdom
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- Division of Physics and Astronomy, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, Amsterdam 1081 HV, The Netherlands
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- Membrane Biochemistry & Biophysics, Utrecht University, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, Biomedical Sciences Building, University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TD, United Kingdom.
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Kumar S, Cartron ML, Mullin N, Qian P, Leggett GJ, Hunter CN, Hobbs JK. Direct Imaging of Protein Organization in an Intact Bacterial Organelle Using High-Resolution Atomic Force Microscopy. ACS NANO 2017; 11:126-133. [PMID: 28114766 PMCID: PMC5269641 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b05647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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The function of bioenergetic membranes is strongly influenced by the spatial arrangement of their constituent membrane proteins. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) can be used to probe protein organization at high resolution, allowing individual proteins to be identified. However, previous AFM studies of biological membranes have typically required that curved membranes are ruptured and flattened during sample preparation, with the possibility of disruption of the native protein arrangement or loss of proteins. Imaging native, curved membranes requires minimal tip-sample interaction in both lateral and vertical directions. Here, long-range tip-sample interactions are reduced by optimizing the imaging buffer. Tapping mode AFM with high-resonance-frequency small and soft cantilevers, in combination with a high-speed AFM, reduces the forces due to feedback error and enables application of an average imaging force of tens of piconewtons. Using this approach, we have imaged the membrane organization of intact vesicular bacterial photosynthetic "organelles", chromatophores. Despite the highly curved nature of the chromatophore membrane and lack of direct support, the resolution was sufficient to identify the photosystem complexes and quantify their arrangement in the native state. Successive imaging showed the proteins remain surprisingly static, with minimal rotation or translation over several-minute time scales. High-order assemblies of RC-LH1-PufX complexes are observed, and intact ATPases are successfully imaged. The methods developed here are likely to be applicable to a broad range of protein-rich vesicles or curved membrane systems, which are an almost ubiquitous feature of native organelles.
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- Sandip Kumar
- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Molecular Biology
and Biotechnology, Department of Chemistry, and Krebs Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S10 2TN, U.K.
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- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Molecular Biology
and Biotechnology, Department of Chemistry, and Krebs Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S10 2TN, U.K.
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- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Molecular Biology
and Biotechnology, Department of Chemistry, and Krebs Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S10 2TN, U.K.
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- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Molecular Biology
and Biotechnology, Department of Chemistry, and Krebs Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S10 2TN, U.K.
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- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Molecular Biology
and Biotechnology, Department of Chemistry, and Krebs Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S10 2TN, U.K.
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- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Molecular Biology
and Biotechnology, Department of Chemistry, and Krebs Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S10 2TN, U.K.
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- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Molecular Biology
and Biotechnology, Department of Chemistry, and Krebs Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S10 2TN, U.K.
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Augmenting light coverage for photosynthesis through YFP-enhanced charge separation at the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction centre. Nat Commun 2017; 8:13972. [PMID: 28054547 PMCID: PMC5512671 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2016] [Accepted: 11/17/2016] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Photosynthesis uses a limited range of the solar spectrum, so enhancing spectral coverage could improve the efficiency of light capture. Here, we show that a hybrid reaction centre (RC)/yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) complex accelerates photosynthetic growth in the bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides. The structure of the RC/YFP-light-harvesting 1 (LH1) complex shows the position of YFP attachment to the RC-H subunit, on the cytoplasmic side of the RC complex. Fluorescence lifetime microscopy of whole cells and ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy of purified RC/YFP complexes show that the YFP–RC intermolecular distance and spectral overlap between the emission of YFP and the visible-region (QX) absorption bands of the RC allow energy transfer via a Förster mechanism, with an efficiency of 40±10%. This proof-of-principle study demonstrates the feasibility of increasing spectral coverage for harvesting light using non-native genetically-encoded light-absorbers, thereby augmenting energy transfer and trapping in photosynthesis. Photosynthesis uses only a limited range of solar radiation. Here, Grayson et al. genetically incorporated the yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) chromophore into a bacterial photosystem, and show that energy harvested by reaction centre–YFP complexes can augment photosynthesis in vivo.
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Liu S, Zhang G, Zhang J, Li X, Li J. Performance, carotenoids yield and microbial population dynamics in a photobioreactor system treating acidic wastewater: Effect of hydraulic retention time (HRT) and organic loading rate (OLR). BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2016; 200:245-252. [PMID: 26496213 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2015.10.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2015] [Revised: 10/14/2015] [Accepted: 10/14/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Effects of hydraulic retention time (HRT) and influent organic loading rate (OLR) were investigated in a photobioreactor containing PNSB (Rhodopseudomonas palustris)-chemoheterotrophic bacteria to treat volatile fatty acid wastewater. Pollutants removal, biomass production and carotenoids yield in different phases were investigated in together with functional microbial population dynamics. The results indicated that properly decreasing HRT and increasing OLR improved the nutrient removal performance as well as the biomass and carotenoids productions. 85.7% COD, 89.9% TN and 91.8% TP removals were achieved under the optimal HRT of 48h and OLR of 2.51g/L/d. Meanwhile, the highest biomass production and carotenoids yield were 2719.3mg/L and 3.91mg/g-biomass respectively. In addition, HRT and OLR have obvious impacts on PNSB and total bacteria dynamics. Statistical analyses indicated that the COD removal exhibited a positive relationship with OLR, biomass and carotenoids production. PNSB/total bacteria ratio had a positive correlation with the carotenoids yield.
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- Shuli Liu
- School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China
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- School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China; School of Environment and Resource, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China.
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- School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China
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- School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China
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- School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China
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Granafei S, Losito I, Trotta M, Italiano F, de Leo V, Agostiano A, Palmisano F, Cataldi TRI. Profiling of ornithine lipids in bacterial extracts of Rhodobacter sphaeroides by reversed-phase liquid chromatography with electrospray ionization and multistage mass spectrometry (RPLC-ESI-MS(n)). Anal Chim Acta 2015; 903:110-20. [PMID: 26709304 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2015.11.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2015] [Revised: 11/06/2015] [Accepted: 11/08/2015] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Ornithine lipids (OLs), a sub-group of the large (and of emerging interest) family of lipoamino acids of bacterial origin, contain a 3-hydroxy fatty acyl chain linked via an amide bond to the α-amino group of ornithine and via an ester bond to a second fatty acyl chain. OLs in extracts of Rhodobacter sphaeroides (R. sphaeroides) were investigated by high-performance reversed phase liquid chromatography (RPLC) with electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) in negative ion mode using a linear ion trap (LIT). The presence of OLs bearing both saturated (i.e, 16:0, 17:0, 18:0, 19:0 and 20:0) and unsaturated chains (i.e., 18:1, 19:1, 19:2 and 20:1) was ascertained and their identification, even for isomeric, low abundance and partially co-eluting species, was achieved by low-energy collision induced dissociation (CID) multistage mass spectrometry (MS(n), n = 2-4). OLs signatures found in two R. sphaeroides strains, i.e., wild type 2.4.1 and mutant R26, were examined and up to 16 and 17 different OL species were successfully identified, respectively. OLs in both bacterial strains were characterized by several combinations of fatty chains on ester-linked and amide-linked 3-OH fatty acids. Multistage MS spectra of monoenoic amide-linked 3-OH acyl chains, allowed the identification of positional isomer of OL containing 18:1 (i.e. 9-octadecenoic) and 20:1 (i.e. 11-eicosenoic) fatty acids. The most abundant OL ([M-H](-) at m/z 717.5) in R. sphaeroides R26 was identified as OL 3-OH 20:1/19:1 (i.e., 3-OH-eicosenoic acid amide-linked to ornithine and esterified to a nonadecenoic chain containing a cyclopropane ring). An unusual OL (m/z 689.5 for the [M-H](-) ion), most likely containing a cyclopropene ester-linked acyl chain (i.e., OL 3-OH 18:0/19:2), was retrieved only in the carotenoidless mutant strain R26. Based on the biosynthetic pathways already known for cyclopropa(e)ne ring-including acyl chains, a plausible explanation was invoked for the enzymatic generation of this ester-linked chain in R. sphaeroides.
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- Sara Granafei
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi Aldo Moro di Bari, Via E. Orabona, 4 - 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi Aldo Moro di Bari, Via E. Orabona, 4 - 70126 Bari, Italy; Centro Interdipartimentale SMART, Università degli Studi Aldo Moro di Bari, Via E. Orabona, 4 - 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Istituto Processi Chimico Fisici CNR, Università degli Studi Aldo Moro di Bari, Via E. Orabona, 4 - 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Istituto Processi Chimico Fisici CNR, Università degli Studi Aldo Moro di Bari, Via E. Orabona, 4 - 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Istituto Processi Chimico Fisici CNR, Università degli Studi Aldo Moro di Bari, Via E. Orabona, 4 - 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Istituto Processi Chimico Fisici CNR, Università degli Studi Aldo Moro di Bari, Via E. Orabona, 4 - 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi Aldo Moro di Bari, Via E. Orabona, 4 - 70126 Bari, Italy; Centro Interdipartimentale SMART, Università degli Studi Aldo Moro di Bari, Via E. Orabona, 4 - 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi Aldo Moro di Bari, Via E. Orabona, 4 - 70126 Bari, Italy; Centro Interdipartimentale SMART, Università degli Studi Aldo Moro di Bari, Via E. Orabona, 4 - 70126 Bari, Italy.
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Liu S, Li X, Zhang G, Zhang J. Effect of magnesium ion on crt gene expression in improving carotenoid yield of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Arch Microbiol 2015; 197:1101-8. [PMID: 26371061 DOI: 10.1007/s00203-015-1150-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2015] [Revised: 08/30/2015] [Accepted: 09/09/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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This study aimed at increasing carotenoid yield of Rhodobacter sphaeroides in wastewater treatment by adding magnesium ion (Mg(2+)). Results showed that Mg(2+) could improve R. sphaeroides biomass and carotenoid yield effectively. The highest carotenoid yield of 4.83 ± 0.14 mg/g biomass and biomass production of 3900 ± 180 mg/L were achieved at optimal Mg(2+) concentration of 15 mmol/L. Mechanism analysis revealed that Mg(2+) could promote carotenoid production by regulating the expressions of crt genes. Up-regulation of crtBDA genes improved carotenoid biosynthesis of R. sphaeroides.
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- Shuli Liu
- School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Huanghe Road 73, Harbin, 150090, China.
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- School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Huanghe Road 73, Harbin, 150090, China.
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- School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Huanghe Road 73, Harbin, 150090, China. .,School of Environment and Resource, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China.
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- School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Huanghe Road 73, Harbin, 150090, China.
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Liu S, Zhang G, Li X, Wu P, Zhang J. Enhancement of Rhodobacter sphaeroides growth and carotenoid production through biostimulation. J Environ Sci (China) 2015; 33:21-28. [PMID: 26141874 DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2015.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2014] [Revised: 01/14/2015] [Accepted: 01/15/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Bacillus thuringiensis/cereus L2 was added as a biostimulant to enhance the biomass accumulation and carotenoid yield of Rhodobacter sphaeroides using wastewater as the culturing medium. Results showed that biostimulation could significantly enhance the R. sphaeroides biomass production and carotenoid yield. The optimal biostimulant proportion was 40 μL (about 6.4×10(5) CFU). Through the use of biostimulation, chemical oxygen demand removal, R. sphaeroides biomass production, carotenoid concentration, and carotenoid yield were improved by 178%, 67%, 214%, and 70%, respectively. Theoretical analysis revealed that there were two possible reasons for such increases. One was that biostimulation enhanced the R. sphaeroides wastewater treatment efficiency. The other was that biostimulation significantly decreased the peroxidase activity in R. sphaeroides. The results showed that the highest peroxidase activity dropped by 87% and the induction ratio of the RSP_3419 gene was 3.1 with the addition of biostimulant. The enhanced carotenoid yield in R. sphaeroides could thus be explained by a decrease in peroxidase activity.
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- Shuli Liu
- School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China..
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- School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China.; School of Environment and Resource, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China.
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- School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China
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- School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China
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- School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China
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Chi SC, Mothersole DJ, Dilbeck P, Niedzwiedzki DM, Zhang H, Qian P, Vasilev C, Grayson KJ, Jackson PJ, Martin EC, Li Y, Holten D, Neil Hunter C. Assembly of functional photosystem complexes in Rhodobacter sphaeroides incorporating carotenoids from the spirilloxanthin pathway. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2014; 1847:189-201. [PMID: 25449968 PMCID: PMC4331045 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2014.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2014] [Revised: 10/17/2014] [Accepted: 10/21/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Carotenoids protect the photosynthetic apparatus against harmful radicals arising from the presence of both light and oxygen. They also act as accessory pigments for harvesting solar energy, and are required for stable assembly of many light-harvesting complexes. In the phototrophic bacterium Rhodobacter (Rba.) sphaeroides phytoene desaturase (CrtI) catalyses three sequential desaturations of the colourless carotenoid phytoene, extending the number of conjugated carbon–carbon double bonds, N, from three to nine and producing the yellow carotenoid neurosporene; subsequent modifications produce the yellow/red carotenoids spheroidene/spheroidenone (N = 10/11). Genomic crtI replacements were used to swap the native three-step Rba. sphaeroides CrtI for the four-step Pantoea agglomerans enzyme, which re-routed carotenoid biosynthesis and culminated in the production of 2,2′-diketo-spirilloxanthin under semi-aerobic conditions. The new carotenoid pathway was elucidated using a combination of HPLC and mass spectrometry. Premature termination of this new pathway by inactivating crtC or crtD produced strains with lycopene or rhodopin as major carotenoids. All of the spirilloxanthin series carotenoids are accepted by the assembly pathways for LH2 and RC–LH1–PufX complexes. The efficiency of carotenoid-to-bacteriochlorophyll energy transfer for 2,2′-diketo-spirilloxanthin (15 conjugated C
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]]>C bonds; N = 15) in LH2 complexes is low, at 35%. High energy transfer efficiencies were obtained for neurosporene (N = 9; 94%), spheroidene (N = 10; 96%) and spheroidenone (N = 11; 95%), whereas intermediate values were measured for lycopene (N = 11; 64%), rhodopin (N = 11; 62%) and spirilloxanthin (N = 13; 39%). The variety and stability of these novel Rba. sphaeroides antenna complexes make them useful experimental models for investigating the energy transfer dynamics of carotenoids in bacterial photosynthesis. The spirilloxanthin biosynthetic pathway has been constructed in Rba. sphaeroides. The new carotenoids are accepted by the photosystem assembly pathways. These pigments are efficiently integrated into LH2 and RC–LH1–PufX complexes. Carotenoid–BChl energy transfer drops with the number of conjugated CC bonds (N). The lowest efficiency, 35%, is for the N = 15 carotenoid 2,2′ diketospirilloxanthin.
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- Shuang C Chi
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130-4889, USA
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- Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130 USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom; ChELSI Institute, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 3JD, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, China Agricultural University, Haidian District, Beijing 100193, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130-4889, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom.
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Olsen JD, Adams PG, Jackson PJ, Dickman MJ, Qian P, Hunter CN. Aberrant assembly complexes of the reaction center light-harvesting 1 PufX (RC-LH1-PufX) core complex of Rhodobacter sphaeroides imaged by atomic force microscopy. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:29927-36. [PMID: 25193660 PMCID: PMC4208002 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.596585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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In the purple phototrophic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides, many protein complexes congregate within the membrane to form operational photosynthetic units consisting of arrays of light-harvesting LH2 complexes and monomeric and dimeric reaction center (RC)-light-harvesting 1 (LH1)-PufX “core” complexes. Each half of a dimer complex consists of a RC surrounded by 14 LH1 αβ subunits, with two bacteriochlorophylls (Bchls) sandwiched between each αβ pair of transmembrane helices. We used atomic force microscopy (AFM) to investigate the assembly of single molecules of the RC-LH1-PufX complex using membranes prepared from LH2-minus mutants. When the RC and PufX components were also absent, AFM revealed a series of LH1 variants where the repeating α1β1(Bchl)2 units had formed rings of variable size, ellipses, and spirals and also arcs that could be assembly products. The spiral complexes occur when the LH1 ring has failed to close, and short arcs are suggestive of prematurely terminated LH1 complex assembly. In the absence of RCs, we occasionally observed captive proteins enclosed by the LH1 ring. When production of LH1 units was restricted by lowering the relative levels of the cognate pufBA transcript, we imaged a mixture of complete RC-LH1 core complexes, empty LH1 rings, and isolated RCs, leading us to conclude that once a RC associates with the first α1β1(Bchl)2 subunit, cooperative associations between subsequent subunits and the RC tend to drive LH1 ring assembly to completion.
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- John D Olsen
- From the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom and
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- From the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom and
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- From the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom and the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, ChELSI Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S1 3JD, United Kingdom
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- the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, ChELSI Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S1 3JD, United Kingdom
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- From the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom and
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- From the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom and
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D'Haene SE, Crouch LI, Jones MR, Frese RN. Organization in photosynthetic membranes of purple bacteria in vivo: the role of carotenoids. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2014; 1837:1665-73. [PMID: 25017691 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2014.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2014] [Revised: 07/01/2014] [Accepted: 07/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Photosynthesis in purple bacteria is performed by pigment-protein complexes that are closely packed within specialized intracytoplasmic membranes. Here we report on the influence of carotenoid composition on the organization of RC-LH1 pigment-protein complexes in intact membranes and cells of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Mostly dimeric RC-LH1 complexes could be isolated from strains expressing native brown carotenoids when grown under illuminated/anaerobic conditions, or from strains expressing green carotenoids when grown under either illuminated/anaerobic or dark/semiaerobic conditions. However, mostly monomeric RC-LH1 complexes were isolated from strains expressing the native photoprotective red carotenoid spheroidenone, which is synthesized during phototrophic growth in the presence of oxygen. Despite this marked difference, linear dichroism (LD) and light-minus-dark LD spectra of oriented intact intracytoplasmic membranes indicated that RC-LH1 complexes are always assembled in ordered arrays, irrespective of variations in the relative amounts of isolated dimeric and monomeric RC-LH1 complexes. We propose that part of the photoprotective response to the presence of oxygen mediated by synthesis of spheroidenone may be a switch of the structure of the RC-LH1 complex from dimers to monomers, but that these monomers are still organized into the photosynthetic membrane in ordered arrays. When levels of the dimeric RC-LH1 complex were very high, and in the absence of LH2, LD and ∆LD spectra from intact cells indicated an ordered arrangement of RC-LH1 complexes. Such a degree of ordering implies the presence of highly elongated, tubular membranes with dimensions requiring orientation along the length of the cell and in a proportion larger than previously observed.
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- Sandrine E D'Haene
- Biophysics of photosynthesis/Physics of Energy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, Amsterdam 1081 HV, The Netherlands.
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- School of Biochemistry, Medical Sciences Building, University of Bristol, University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TD, United Kingdom
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- School of Biochemistry, Medical Sciences Building, University of Bristol, University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TD, United Kingdom.
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- Biophysics of photosynthesis/Physics of Energy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, Amsterdam 1081 HV, The Netherlands.
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Guo W, Tang H, Zhang L. Lycopene cyclase and phytoene synthase activities in the marine yeast Rhodosporidium diobovatum are encoded by a single gene crtYB. J Basic Microbiol 2014; 54:1053-61. [PMID: 24677129 DOI: 10.1002/jobm.201300920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2013] [Accepted: 01/26/2014] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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crtYB, encoding lycopene cyclase and phytoene synthase was cloned from Rhodosporidium diobovatum ATCC 2527 by rapid amplification of cDNA ends method. The full-length cDNA of crtYB is 2, 330 bp and contains eight introns. The gene products is a 594 amino acids, with a predicted molecular mass of 65.63 kDa and a pI of 6.73. The N-terminus of the protein contains six transmembrane regions, which has been characterized as a lycopene beta-cyclase. The C-terminal half has squalene and phytoene synthase signatures that identified as phytoene synthetase. By heterologous complementary detection of this gene in E. coli and HPLC analysis, the regions responsible for phytoene synthesis and lycopene cyclization were localized within the protein.
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- Wenjing Guo
- Key Discipline of Biological Engineering of Hebei Province, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, China; Key Laboratory of Microbial Diversity Research and Application of Hebei Province, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, China
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Cartron ML, Olsen JD, Sener M, Jackson PJ, Brindley AA, Qian P, Dickman MJ, Leggett GJ, Schulten K, Neil Hunter C. Integration of energy and electron transfer processes in the photosynthetic membrane of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2014; 1837:1769-80. [PMID: 24530865 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2014.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2013] [Revised: 02/03/2014] [Accepted: 02/05/2014] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Photosynthesis converts absorbed solar energy to a protonmotive force, which drives ATP synthesis. The membrane network of chlorophyll-protein complexes responsible for light absorption, photochemistry and quinol (QH2) production has been mapped in the purple phototrophic bacterium Rhodobacter (Rba.) sphaeroides using atomic force microscopy (AFM), but the membrane location of the cytochrome bc1 (cytbc1) complexes that oxidise QH2 to quinone (Q) to generate a protonmotive force is unknown. We labelled cytbc1 complexes with gold nanobeads, each attached by a Histidine10 (His10)-tag to the C-terminus of cytc1. Electron microscopy (EM) of negatively stained chromatophore vesicles showed that the majority of the cytbc1 complexes occur as dimers in the membrane. The cytbc1 complexes appeared to be adjacent to reaction centre light-harvesting 1-PufX (RC-LH1-PufX) complexes, consistent with AFM topographs of a gold-labelled membrane. His-tagged cytbc1 complexes were retrieved from chromatophores partially solubilised by detergent; RC-LH1-PufX complexes tended to co-purify with cytbc1 whereas LH2 complexes became detached, consistent with clusters of cytbc1 complexes close to RC-LH1-PufX arrays, but not with a fixed, stoichiometric cytbc1-RC-LH1-PufX supercomplex. This information was combined with a quantitative mass spectrometry (MS) analysis of the RC, cytbc1, ATP synthase, cytaa3 and cytcbb3 membrane protein complexes, to construct an atomic-level model of a chromatophore vesicle comprising 67 LH2 complexes, 11 LH1-RC-PufX dimers & 2 RC-LH1-PufX monomers, 4 cytbc1 dimers and 2 ATP synthases. Simulation of the interconnected energy, electron and proton transfer processes showed a half-maximal ATP turnover rate for a light intensity equivalent to only 1% of bright sunlight. Thus, the photosystem architecture of the chromatophore is optimised for growth at low light intensities.
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- Michaël L Cartron
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA; Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK; ChELSI Institute, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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- ChELSI Institute, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield, Brook Hill, Sheffield S3 7HF, UK
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA; Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.
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Liu LN, Scheuring S. Investigation of photosynthetic membrane structure using atomic force microscopy. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2013; 18:277-86. [PMID: 23562040 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2013.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2012] [Revised: 02/21/2013] [Accepted: 03/01/2013] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Photosynthetic processes, including light capture, electron transfer, and energy conversion, are not only ensured by the activities of individual photosynthetic complexes but also substantially determined and regulated by the composition and assembly of the overall photosynthetic apparatus at the supramolecular level. In recent years, atomic force microscopy (AFM) has matured as a unique and powerful tool for directly assessing the supramolecular assembly of integral membrane protein complexes in their native membrane environment at submolecular resolution. This review highlights the major contributions and advances of AFM studies to our understanding of the structure of the bacterial photosynthetic machinery and its regulatory arrangement during chromatic adaptation. AFM topographs of other biological membrane systems and potential future applications of AFM are also discussed.
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- Lu-Ning Liu
- Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK.
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Adams PG, Hunter CN. Adaptation of intracytoplasmic membranes to altered light intensity in Rhodobacter sphaeroides. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2012; 1817:1616-27. [PMID: 22659614 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2012.05.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2012] [Revised: 04/18/2012] [Accepted: 05/25/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The model photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides uses a network of bacteriochlorophyll (BChl)-protein complexes embedded in spherical intracytoplasmic membranes (ICM) to collect and utilise solar energy. We studied the effects of high- and low-light growth conditions, where BChl levels increased approximately four-fold from 1.6×10(6) to 6.5×10(6) molecules per cell. Most of this extra pigment is accommodated in the proliferating ICM system, which increases from approximately 274 to 1468 vesicles per cell. Thus, 16×10(6)nm(2) of specialised membrane surface area is made available for harvesting and utilising solar energy compared to 3×10(6)nm(2) under high-light conditions. Membrane mapping using atomic force microscopy revealed closely packed dimeric and monomeric reaction centre-light harvesting 1-PufX (RC-LH1-PufX) complexes in high-light ICM with room only for small clusters of LH2, whereas extensive LH2-only domains form during adaptation to low light, with the LH2/RC ratio increasing three-fold. The number of upper pigmented band (UPB) sites where membrane invagination is initiated hardly varied; 704 (5.8×10(5) BChls/cell) and 829 (4.9×10(5) BChls/cell) UPB sites per cell were estimated under high- and low-light conditions, respectively. Thus, the lower ICM content in high-light cells is a consequence of fewer ICM invaginations reaching maturity. Taking into account the relatively poor LH2-to-LH1 energy transfer in UPB membranes it is likely that high-light cells are relatively inefficient at energy trapping, but can grow well enough without the need to fully develop their photosynthetic membranes from the relatively inefficient UPB to highly efficient mature ICM.
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- Peter G Adams
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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