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Rubredoxin from the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum donates a redox equivalent to the flavodiiron protein in an NAD(P)H dependent manner via ferredoxin-NAD(P) + oxidoreductase. Arch Microbiol 2020; 203:799-808. [PMID: 33051772 DOI: 10.1007/s00203-020-02079-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2020] [Revised: 09/24/2020] [Accepted: 10/01/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The green sulfur bacterium, Chlorobaculum tepidum, is an anaerobic photoautotroph that performs anoxygenic photosynthesis. Although genes encoding rubredoxin (Rd) and a putative flavodiiron protein (FDP) were reported in the genome, a gene encoding putative NADH-Rd oxidoreductase is not identified. In this work, we expressed and purified the recombinant Rd and FDP and confirmed dioxygen reductase activity in the presence of ferredoxin-NAD(P)+ oxidoreductase (FNR). FNR from C. tepidum and Bacillus subtilis catalyzed the reduction of Rd at rates comparable to those reported for NADH-Rd oxidoreductases. Also, we observed substrate inhibition at high concentrations of NADPH similar to that observed with ferredoxins. In the presence of NADPH, B. subtilis FNR and Rd, FDP promoted dioxygen reduction at rates comparable to those reported for other bacterial FDPs. Taken together, our results suggest that Rd and FDP participate in the reduction of dioxygen in C. tepidum and that FNR can promote the reduction of Rd in this bacterium.
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Fisher N, Kramer DM. Non-photochemical reduction of thylakoid photosynthetic redox carriers in vitro: relevance to cyclic electron flow around photosystem I? BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2015; 1837:1944-1954. [PMID: 25251244 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2014.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2014] [Revised: 09/07/2014] [Accepted: 09/14/2014] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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UNLABELLED Non-photochemical (dark) increases in chlorophyll a fluorescence yield associated with non-photochemical reduction of redox carriers (Fnpr) have been attributed to the reduction of plastoquinone (PQ) related to cyclic electron flow (CEF) around photosystem I. In vivo, this rise in fluorescence is associated with activity of the chloroplast plastoquinone reductase (plastid NAD(P)H plastoquinone oxidoreductase) complex. In contrast, this signal measured in isolated thylakoids has been attributed to the activity of the protein gradient regulation-5 (PGR5)/PGR5-like (PGRL1)-associated CEF pathway. Here, we report a systematic experimentation on the origin of Fnpr in isolated thylakoids. Addition of NADPH and ferredoxin to isolated spinach thylakoids resulted in the reduction of the PQ pool, but neither its kinetics nor its inhibitor sensitivities matched those of Fnpr. Notably, Fnpr was more rapid than PQ reduction, and completely insensitive to inhibitors of the PSII QB site and oxygen evolving complex as well as inhibitors of the cytochrome b6f complex. We thus conclude that Fnpr in isolated thylakoids is not a result of redox equilibrium with bulk PQ. Redox titrations and fluorescence emission spectra imply that Fnpr is dependent on the reduction of a low potential redox component (Em about − 340 mV) within photosystem II (PSII), and is likely related to earlier observations of low potential variants of QA within a subpopulation of PSII that is directly reducible by ferredoxin. The implications of these results for our understanding of CEF and other photosynthetic processes are discussed.
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- Nicholas Fisher
- MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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- MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
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Blanco NE, Ceccoli RD, Vía MVD, Voss I, Segretin ME, Bravo-Almonacid FF, Melzer M, Hajirezaei MR, Scheibe R, Hanke GT. Expression of the minor isoform pea ferredoxin in tobacco alters photosynthetic electron partitioning and enhances cyclic electron flow. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2013; 161:866-79. [PMID: 23370717 PMCID: PMC3561025 DOI: 10.1104/pp.112.211078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2012] [Accepted: 12/04/2012] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Ferredoxins (Fds) are ferrosulfoproteins that function as low-potential electron carriers in plants. The Fd family is composed of several isoforms that share high sequence homology but differ in functional characteristics. In leaves, at least two isoforms conduct linear and cyclic photosynthetic electron transport around photosystem I, and mounting evidence suggests the existence of at least partial division of duties between these isoforms. To evaluate the contribution of different kinds of Fds to the control of electron fluxes along the photosynthetic electron transport chain, we overexpressed a minor pea (Pisum sativum) Fd isoform (PsFd1) in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) plants. The transplastomic OeFd1 plants exhibited variegated leaves and retarded growth and developmental rates. Photosynthetic studies of these plants indicated a reduction in carbon dioxide assimilation rates, photosystem II photochemistry, and linear electron flow. However, the plants showed an increase in nonphotochemical quenching, better control of excitation pressure at photosystem II, and no evidence of photoinhibition, implying a better dynamic regulation to remove excess energy from the photosynthetic electron transport chain. Finally, analysis of P700 redox status during illumination confirmed that the minor pea Fd isoform promotes enhanced cyclic flow around photosystem I. The two novel features of this work are: (1) that Fd levels achieved in transplastomic plants promote an alternative electron partitioning even under greenhouse light growth conditions, a situation that is exacerbated at higher light intensity measurements; and (2) that an alternative, minor Fd isoform has been overexpressed in plants, giving new evidence of labor division among Fd isoforms.
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- Nicolás E Blanco
- Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, SE 901 87 Umea, Sweden.
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Ceccoli RD, Blanco NE, Segretin ME, Melzer M, Hanke GT, Scheibe R, Hajirezaei MR, Bravo-Almonacid FF, Carrillo N. Flavodoxin displays dose-dependent effects on photosynthesis and stress tolerance when expressed in transgenic tobacco plants. PLANTA 2012; 236:1447-58. [PMID: 22763502 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-012-1695-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2012] [Accepted: 06/16/2012] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Ferredoxins are iron-sulfur proteins involved in various one-electron transfer pathways. Ferredoxin levels decrease under adverse environmental conditions in photosynthetic organisms. In cyanobacteria, this decline is compensated by induction of flavodoxin, an isofunctional flavoprotein. Flavodoxin is not present in higher plants, but transgenic Nicotiana tabacum lines accumulating Anabaena flavodoxin in plastids display increased tolerance to different sources of environmental stress. As the degree of tolerance correlated with flavodoxin dosage in plastids of nuclear-transformed transgenic tobacco, we prepared plants expressing even higher levels of flavodoxin by direct plastid transformation. A suite of nuclear- and chloroplast-transformed lines expressing a wide range of flavodoxin levels, from 0.3 to 10.8 μmol m(-2), did not exhibit any detectable growth phenotype relative to the wild type. In the absence of stress, the contents of both chlorophyll a and carotenoids, as well as the photosynthetic performance (photosystem II maximum efficiency, photosystem II operating efficiency, electron transport rates and carbon assimilation rates), displayed a moderate increase with flavodoxin concentrations up to 1.3-2.6 μmol flavodoxin m(-2), and then declined to wild-type levels. Stress tolerance, as estimated by the damage inflicted on exposure to the pro-oxidant methyl viologen, also exhibited a bell-shaped response, with a significant, dose-dependent increase in tolerance followed by a drop in the high-expressing lines. The results indicate that optimal photosynthetic performance and stress tolerance were observed at flavodoxin levels comparable to those of endogenous ferredoxin. Further increases in flavodoxin content become detrimental to plant fitness.
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- Romina D Ceccoli
- División Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, S2002LRK, Rosario, Argentina
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Ceccoli RD, Blanco NE, Medina M, Carrillo N. Stress response of transgenic tobacco plants expressing a cyanobacterial ferredoxin in chloroplasts. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2011; 76:535-44. [PMID: 21584860 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-011-9786-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2010] [Accepted: 05/05/2011] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Expression of the chloroplast electron shuttle ferredoxin is induced by light through mechanisms that partially depend on sequences lying in the coding region of the gene, complicating its manipulation by promoter engineering. Ferredoxin expression is also down-regulated under virtually all stress situations, and it is unclear if light-dependent induction and stress-dependent repression proceed through the same or similar mechanisms. Previous reports have shown that expression of a cyanobacterial flavodoxin in tobacco plastids results in plants with enhanced tolerance to adverse environmental conditions such as drought, chilling and xenobiotics (Tognetti et al. in Plant Cell 18:2035-2050, 2006). The protective effect of flavodoxin was linked to functional replacement of ferredoxin, suggesting the possibility that tolerant phenotypes might be obtained by simply increasing ferredoxin contents. To bypass endogenous regulatory constraints, we transformed tobacco plants with a ferredoxin gene from Anabaena sp. PCC7120, which has only 53% identity with plant orthologs. The cyanobacterial protein was able to interact in vitro with ferredoxin-dependent plant enzymes and to mediate NADP(+) photoreduction by tobacco thylakoids. Expression of Anabaena ferredoxin was constitutive and light-independent. However, homozygous lines accumulating threefold higher ferredoxin levels than the wild-type failed to show enhanced tolerance to oxidative stress and chilling temperatures. Under these adverse conditions, Anabaena ferredoxin was down-regulated even faster than the endogenous counterparts. The results indicate that: (1) light- and stress-dependent regulations of ferredoxin expression proceed through different pathways, and (2) overexpression of ferredoxin is not an alternative to flavodoxin expression for the development of increased stress tolerance in plants.
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- Romina D Ceccoli
- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR, CONICET), División Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, S2002LRK, Rosario, Argentina
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Unifying principles in homodimeric type I photosynthetic reaction centers: Properties of PscB and the FA, FB and FX iron–sulfur clusters in green sulfur bacteria. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2008; 1777:1535-44. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2008.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2008] [Revised: 08/29/2008] [Accepted: 09/03/2008] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Mino Y. Protein Chemotaxonomy. XIII. Amino Acid Sequence of Ferredoxin from Panax ginseng. Biol Pharm Bull 2006; 29:1771-4. [PMID: 16880642 DOI: 10.1248/bpb.29.1771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The complete amino acid sequence of [2Fe-2S] ferredoxin from Panax ginseng (Araliaceae) has been determined by automated Edman degradation of the entire S-carboxymethylcysteinyl protein and of the peptides obtained by enzymatic digestion. This ferredoxin has a unique amino acid sequence, which includes an insertion of Tyr at the 3rd position from the amino-terminus and a deletion of two amino acid residues at the carboxyl terminus. This ferredoxin had 18 differences in its amino acid sequence compared to that of Petroselinum sativum (Umbelliferae). In contrast, 23-33 differences were observed compared to other dicotyledonous plants. This suggests that Panax ginseng is related taxonomically to umbelliferous plants.
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- Yoshiki Mino
- Department of Environmental Analysis, Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Japan.
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Mino Y, Yukita M, Hiratsuka N, Wariishi H. Amino acid sequences of ferredoxins from Atropa belladonna and Hyoscyamus niger: their similarities to those in other tropane-alkaloid-containing plants. Biol Pharm Bull 2005; 28:1535-8. [PMID: 16079510 DOI: 10.1248/bpb.28.1535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The complete amino acid sequences of [2Fe-2S] ferredoxin from Atropa belladonna and Hyoscyamus niger have been determined by automated Edman degradation of the entire S-carboxymethylcysteinyl proteins and of the peptides obtained by enzymatic digestion. These two ferredoxins exhibited 1-8 differences in their amino acid sequences compared to those of other tropane-alkaloid-containing plants (Scopolia japonica, Datura stramonium, D. metel, and D. arborea), and only 1 or 4 differences compared to S. japonica and D. arborea. In contrast, 9-23 differences were observed among the other solanaceous ferredoxins. This suggests that tropane-alkaloid-containing plants are closely related taxonomically.
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- Yoshiki Mino
- Department of Environment Analysis, Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 4-20-1 Nasahara, Takatsuki, Osaka 569-1094, Japan.
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Mino Y, Hazama T, Machida Y. Large differences in amino acid sequences among ferredoxins from several species of genus Solanum. PHYTOCHEMISTRY 2003; 62:657-662. [PMID: 12620316 DOI: 10.1016/s0031-9422(02)00485-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The complete amino acid sequences of [2Fe-2S] ferredoxins from four species of genus Solanum (S. nigrum, S. lyratum, S. indicum, and S. abutiloides) were determined by automated Edman degradation of the entire S-carboxymethylcysteinyl proteins and of the peptides obtained by enzymatic digestion. The amino acid sequences of these four ferredoxins differed from each other by 12-19, whereas 0-4 differences have been observed among ferredoxins from plants in the same genus and 14-40 differences were seen between different families. This suggests that these Solanum plants are distantly related to each other taxonomically.
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- Yoshiki Mino
- Department of Environmental Analysis, Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 4-20-1 Nasahara, Takatsuki, Osaka 569-1094, Japan.
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Mino Y. Amino acid sequences of ferredoxins from Scopolia japonica and Lycium chinense: their similarities to that of Datura arborea. Biol Pharm Bull 2002; 25:1367-9. [PMID: 12392097 DOI: 10.1248/bpb.25.1367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The complete amino acid sequences of [2Fe-2S] ferredoxins from Scopolia japonica and Lycium chinense have been determined by automated Edman degradation of the entire Cm-proteins and of the peptides obtained by enzymatic digestions. These two ferredoxins exhibited only 2-7 differences in the amino acid sequence when compared to the Datura-ferredoxins (D. stramonium, D. metel, and D. arborea), and especially only 2 or 3 differences compared to D. arborea. On the contrary, 8-19 differences were observed among the other solanaceous ferredoxins. This suggests that S. japonica and L. chinense are closely related taxonomically to Datura plants, especially to D. arborea.
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- Yoshiki Mino
- Department of Environmental Analysis, Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Takatsuki, Japan.
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Kopriva S, Büchert T, Fritz G, Suter M, Weber M, Benda R, Schaller J, Feller U, Schürmann P, Schünemann V, Trautwein AX, Kroneck PM, Brunold C. Plant adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate reductase is a novel iron-sulfur protein. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:42881-6. [PMID: 11553635 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m107424200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate reductase (APR) catalyzes the two-electron reduction of adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate to sulfite and AMP, which represents the key step of sulfate assimilation in higher plants. Recombinant APRs from both Lemna minor and Arabidopsis thaliana were overexpressed in Escherichia coli and isolated as yellow-brown proteins. UV-visible spectra of these recombinant proteins indicated the presence of iron-sulfur centers, whereas flavin was absent. This result was confirmed by quantitative analysis of iron and acid-labile sulfide, suggesting a [4Fe-4S] cluster as the cofactor. EPR spectroscopy of freshly purified enzyme showed, however, only a minor signal at g = 2.01. Therefore, Mössbauer spectra of (57)Fe-enriched APR were obtained at 4.2 K in magnetic fields of up to 7 tesla, which were assigned to a diamagnetic [4Fe-4S](2+) cluster. This cluster was unusual because only three of the iron sites exhibited the same Mössbauer parameters. The fourth iron site gave, because of the bistability of the fit, a significantly smaller isomer shift or larger quadrupole splitting than the other three sites. Thus, plant assimilatory APR represents a novel type of adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate reductase with a [4Fe-4S] center as the sole cofactor, which is clearly different from the dissimilatory adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate reductases found in sulfate reducing bacteria.
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- S Kopriva
- Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, CH-3013 Bern, Switzerland.
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O'Keefe DP. Sites of cytochromeb-563 reduction, and the mode of action of DNP-INT and DBMIB in the chloroplast cytochromeb-563/fcomplex. FEBS Lett 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(83)80786-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Johnson TC, Buchanan BB, Malkin R. Photosynthetic electron transport by Zwittergent-extracted chloroplasts requires solubilized plastocyanin. FEBS Lett 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(81)80528-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Golbeck JH, Parrett KG, Mehari T, Jones KL, Brand JJ. Isolation of the intact photosystem I reaction center core containing P700 and iron-sulfur center FX. FEBS Lett 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(88)80013-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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McDowell MT, Lagarias JC. Purification and biochemical properties of phytochromobilin synthase from etiolated oat seedlings. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2001; 126:1546-1554. [PMID: 11500553 PMCID: PMC117154 DOI: 10.1104/pp.126.4.1546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2000] [Revised: 03/08/2001] [Accepted: 04/25/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Plant phytochromes are dependent on the covalent attachment of the linear tetrapyrrole chromophore phytochromobilin (P Phi B) for photoactivity. In planta, biliverdin IX alpha (BV) is reduced by the plastid-localized, ferredoxin (Fd)-dependent enzyme P Phi B synthase to yield 3Z-P Phi B. Here, we describe the >50,000-fold purification of P Phi B synthase from etioplasts from dark-grown oat (Avena sativa L. cv Garry) seedlings using traditional column chromatography and preparative electrophoresis. Thus, P Phi B synthase is a very low abundance enzyme with a robust turnover rate. We estimate the turnover rate to be >100 s(-1), which is similar to that of mammalian NAD(P)H-dependent BV reductase. Oat P Phi B synthase is a monomer with a subunit mass of 29 kD. However, two distinct charged forms of the enzymes were identified by native isoelectric focusing. The ability of P Phi B synthase to reduce BV is dependent on reduced 2Fe-2S Fds. A K(m) for spinach (Spinacea oleracea) Fd was determined to be 3 to 4 microM. P Phi B synthase has a high affinity for its bilin substrate, with a sub-micromolar K(m) for BV.
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- M T McDowell
- Section of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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Miyake C, Yokota A. Cyclic flow of electrons within PSII in thylakoid membranes. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2001; 42:508-15. [PMID: 11382817 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pce063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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In photosynthesis, the electrons released from PSII are considered to be shared mainly by carbon metabolism and the water-water cycle. We demonstrated previously that some electrons are utilized in a CO2- and O2-independent manner in leaves of wild watermelon [Miyake and Yokota (2000) Plant Cell Physiol: 41: 335]. In the present study, we examined the mechanism of this alternative flow of electrons in thylakoid membranes, isolated from fresh spinach leaves, by simultaneously measuring the quantum yield of PSII and the flux of the linear flow of electrons. In the presence of the protonophore nigericin, which eliminates the pH gradient across thylakoid membranes, the quantum yield and the flux of the linear flow of electrons were directly proportional to one another. The quantum yield at a given linear flux of electrons was much higher in the absence of nigericin than in its presence, indicating that an additional or alternative flow of electrons can occur independently of the linear flow in the absence of nigericin. In the presence of nigericin, the alternative flux of electrons increased with decreasing pH and with increasing reduction of the plastoquinone pool. Cyclic flow of electrons in PSII appears to be the most plausible candidate for the alternative flow of electrons. The flux reached 280 micromol x e(-) (mg Chl)(-1) x h(-1) and was similar to that of the CO2- and O2-independent alternative flow of electrons that we found in leaves of wild watermelon. The cyclic, alternative flow of electrons in PSII provides a possible explanation for the alternative flow of electrons observed in vivo.
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- C Miyake
- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara, 630-0101 Japan.
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Seo D, Tomioka A, Kusumoto N, Kamo M, Enami I, Sakurai H. Purification of ferredoxins and their reaction with purified reaction center complex from the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2001; 1503:377-84. [PMID: 11115649 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(00)00245-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Four ferredoxin (Fd) fractions, namely, FdA-D were purified from the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum. Their absorption spectra are typical of 2[4Fe-4S] cluster type Fds with peaks at about 385 and 280 nm and a shoulder at about 305 nm. The A(385)/A(280) ratios of the purified Fds were 0.76-0.80. Analysis of the N-terminal amino acid sequences of these Fds (15-25 residues) revealed that those of FdA and FdB completely agree with those deduced from the genes, fdx3 and fdx2, respectively, found in this bacterium (Chung and Bryant, personal communication). The N-terminal amino acid sequences of FdC and FdD (15 residues) were identical, and agree with that deduced from the gene fdx1 (Chung and Bryant, personal communication). The A(385) values of these Fds were unchanged when they were stored for a month at -80 degrees C under aerobic conditions and decreased by 10-15% when they were stored for 6 days at 4 degrees C under aerobic conditions, indicating that they are not extremely unstable. In the presence of Fd-NADP(+) reductase from spinach, and a purified reaction center (RC) preparation from C. tepidum composed of five kinds of polypeptides, these Fds supported the photoreduction of NADP(+) at room temperature with the following K(m) and V(max) (in micromol NADP(+) micromol BChl a(-1) h(-1)): FdA, 2.0 microm and 258; FdB, 0.49 microM and 304; FdC, 1.13 microM and 226; FdD, 0.5 microM and 242; spinach Fd, 0.54 microM and 183. The V(max) value of FdB was more than twice that previously reported for purified RC preparations from green sulfur bacteria.
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- D Seo
- Department of Biology, School of Education, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
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Kobayashi S, Imai E, Haghighi A, Tachibana H, Takeuchi T. Cultivation of Entamoeba dispar: growth-promoting effect of ferredoxin. Arch Med Res 2000; 31:S210-1. [PMID: 11070287 DOI: 10.1016/s0188-4409(00)00222-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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- S Kobayashi
- Department of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
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Mino Y, Yasuda K. Amino acid sequence of ferredoxin from Physalis alkekengi var. francheti. PHYTOCHEMISTRY 1998; 49:1631-1636. [PMID: 9862138 DOI: 10.1016/s0031-9422(98)00331-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The complete amino acid sequence of [2Fe-2S] ferredoxin from Physalis alkekengi var. francheti has been determined by automated Edman degradation of the entire Cm-protein and of the peptides obtained by trypsin and endoproteinase Asp-N digestions. This ferredoxin exhibited ten, ten, and nine differences respectively in the amino acid sequence, when compared with the ferredoxins of Datura stramonium, D. metel, and D. arborea, but 21-28 differences for other angiosperms, and 34-37 differences for fern and horsetails. These results are in harmony with the taxonomic position for these plants.
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- Y Mino
- Department of Pharmacognosy, Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Japan.
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Naver H, Scott MP, Golbeck JH, Møller BL, Scheller HV. Reconstitution of barley photosystem I with modified PSI-C allows identification of domains interacting with PSI-D and PSI-A/B. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:8996-9001. [PMID: 8621546 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.15.8996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The PSI-C subunit of photosystem I shows similarity to soluble 2[4Fe-4S] ferredoxins. Alignment analysis clearly shows that PSI-C contains an 8-residue internal loop and a 15-residue C-terminal extension that are absent in the ferredoxins. The remaining residues in PSI-C are likely to be folded in a way similar to the soluble 2[4Fe-4S] ferredoxins. Two modified PSI-C subunits lacking either the 8-residue loop or 10 residues of the C terminus were expressed in Escherichia coli and used to reconstitute a barley P700-FX core prepared to specifically lack PSI-C, PSI-D, and PSI-E. As shown by EPR spectroscopy, the modified proteins carry two [4Fe-4S] clusters with characteristics similar to those of native PSI-C. Western blot analysis of the reconstituted photosystem I complexes showed that the modified PSI-C proteins bind to the P700-FX core. Flash photolysis revealed that in photosystem I complexes reconstituted in the presence of PSI-D with the C-terminally deleted PSI-C, the FA/FB back-reaction was less efficiently restored than with wild-type PSI-C. The loop-deleted PSI-C was even less efficient. We attribute these differences to altered binding properties of the modified proteins. Comparison of reconstitutions performed in the presence and absence of PSI-D shows that the loop-deleted PSI-C is unable to bind without PSI-D, whereas the C-terminally deleted PSI-C binds only weakly with PSI-D. These results imply that the internal loop of PSI-C interacts with the PSI-A/B heterodimer and that the C terminus of PSI-C interacts with PSI-D.
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- H Naver
- Department of Plant Biology, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, 40 Thorvaldsensvej, DK 1871 Frederiksberg C, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Imai T, Kamata K, Saito H, Urushiyama A. Effect of Hexacyanoferrate(III) onMycobacterium smegmatis7Fe Ferredoxin: Further Evidence for Formation of a 6Fe(2 × [3Fe–4S]) Ferredoxin. BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 1995. [DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.68.2923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Bes MT, Razquin P, Gómez-Moreno C. Interference of nucleases in cyanobacterium ferredoxin purification. PREPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY 1995; 25:89-97. [PMID: 8532639 DOI: 10.1080/10826069508010113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Isolation of cyanobacterial ferredoxin is normally carried out using nucleases in order to degrade the nucleic acids that accompany this protein during the purification procedure. However, this practice presents the inconvenience that these proteins remain in trace amounts in the purified ferredoxin preparations, although they are not visible by electrophoretical techniques. Evidence of that fact is shown in this report and an alternative procedure is described for the rapid preparation of ferredoxin from crude extracts of Anabaena PCC 7119. The method involves a treatment of the crude extract with streptomycin sulphate, a high molecular weight polication that precipitates the nucleic acids in the beginning of the purification.
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- M T Bes
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
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Imai T, Urushiyama A, Saito H, Sakamoto Y, Ota K, Ohmori D. A novel 6Fe (2 x [3Fe-4S]) ferredoxin from Mycobacterium smegmatis. FEBS Lett 1995; 368:23-6. [PMID: 7615081 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(95)00601-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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A novel ferredoxin was purified from Mycobacterium smegmatis by a series of hydrophobic chromatographies in the presence of high concentrations of ammonium sulfate and sodium chloride. The ferredoxin exhibited the same peptide map and N-terminal amino acid sequence as the known 7Fe ferredoxin from the same bacterium. On the other hand, this ferredoxin was found to contain approximately 6 Fe/mol ferredoxin and was also shown to contain only [3Fe-4S] clusters by resonance Raman spectroscopy, indicating that it is a novel 6Fe ferredoxin which contains two [3Fe-4S] clusters.
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- T Imai
- Department of Chemistry, Rikkyo (St. Paul's) University, Tokyo, Japan
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Hörtensteiner S, Vicentini F, Matile P. Chlorophyll breakdown in senescent cotyledons of rape, Brassica napus L.: Enzymatic cleavage of phaeophorbide a in vitro. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 1995; 129:237-246. [PMID: 33874553 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.1995.tb04293.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Solubilization of senescent thylakoids from rape cotyledons in the presence of Triton X-100 was employed to establish an in vitro system that allowed the assessment of enzymatic conversion of phaeophorbide a into an uncoloured fluorescent chlorophyll catabolite, Bn-FCC-2. The action of the putative dioxygenase responsible for the cleavage of the porphyrin macrocycle depends on reduced ferredoxin as reductant. Apart from this thylakoidal catalyst, stromal protein is also required for the production of FCC-2 in vitro. The cleavage reaction does not occur with phaeophorbide b as substrate. Saturation kinetics with phaeophorbide a as substrate yielded an apparent Km -value of c. 200 μ. The enzyme contains iron as suggested by inhibitory effects of appropriate chelators. Enzyme activity lost upon treatment with bipyridyl was partly restored in the presence of Fe-ions; other metal ions such as Cu, Zn and Co were ineffective. The enzyme is absent in the thylakoids of mature green cotyledons. It appears upon the induction of foliar senescence and reaches the highest levels towards the end of the yellowing process.
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- Stefan Hörtensteiner
- Institut für Pflanzenbiologie, Universität Zürich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH-8008 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institut für Pflanzenbiologie, Universität Zürich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH-8008 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institut für Pflanzenbiologie, Universität Zürich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH-8008 Zürich, Switzerland
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The complete amino acid sequence of [2Fe-2S] ferredoxin from Datura arborea, "Tree Datura", has been determined by automated Edman degradation of the entire Cm-protein and of the peptides obtained by tryptic digestion and CNBr treatment. The D. arborea ferredoxin exhibited three and four differences, respectively, in the amino acid sequences when compared with the ferredoxins of D. stramonium and D. metel (herbaceous species). This result supports the idea of Bernhardi and Safford that 'Tree Datura' such as D. arborea should be considered as one section of the genus Datura and not a separate genus.
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- Y Mino
- Department of Pharmacognosy, Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Japan
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Dorovska-Taran V, van Hoek A, Link TA, Visser AJ, Hagen WR. A comparative picosecond-resolved fluorescence study of tryptophan residues in iron-sulfur proteins. FEBS Lett 1994; 348:305-10. [PMID: 8034060 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(94)00606-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The fluorescence intensity and anisotropy decays of the intrinsic tryptophan emission from six Fe/S proteins (ranging from the very simplest ones to enzyme complexes containing one, two or more Trp residues) were measured. All proteins were examined in the reduced and the oxidized state. In either redox state each protein exhibits ultrarapid tryptophan fluorescence decay on the picosecond timescale contributing up to 93% of the total decay. Correlation times in the range of 1 ns or less were found for all six iron-sulfur proteins reflecting internal Trp motion. In addition, some proteins exhibit longer correlation times reflecting segmental motion and overall protein tumbling. The ultrarapid fluorescence decay in iron-sulfur proteins indicates efficient radiationless energy transfer between distant tryptophan residues and iron-sulfur clusters. Such an energy transfer mechanism can be accounted for by referring to the three-dimensional structures of rubredoxin and ferredoxin in calculating the transfer efficiency of the single tryptophan-iron-sulfur couple.
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- V Dorovska-Taran
- Department of Biochemistry, Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Naud I, Vinçon M, Garin J, Gaillard J, Forest E, Jouanneau Y. Purification of a sixth ferredoxin from Rhodobacter capsulatus. Primary structure and biochemical properties. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1994; 222:933-9. [PMID: 8026503 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1994.tb18942.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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A new ferredoxin has been purified from the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus. It is the sixth ferredoxin to be isolated from this bacterium and it was called FdVI. Its primary structure was established based on amino acid sequence analysis of the protein and of peptides derived from it. It is composed of 106 residues including five cysteines. The calculated mass of the polypeptide is 11,402.6 Da which matches the experimental value determined by electrospray mass spectrometry. Amino acid sequence comparison revealed that ferredoxin VI (FdVI) is strikingly similar to a ferredoxin from Caulobacter crescentus and to the putidaredoxin from Pseudomonas putida. FdVI exhibited an ultraviolet-visible absorption spectrum typical for a [2Fe-2S] ferredoxin. EPR spectroscopy of the reduced protein showed a nearly axial signal similar to that of mitochondrial and P. putida ferredoxins. FdVI is biosynthesized in cells growing anaerobically under either nitrogen-sufficient or nitrogen-deficient conditions. Although the function of FdVI is unknown, its structural resemblance to [2Fe-2S] ferredoxins known to transfer electrons to oxygenases such as P-450 cytochromes, suggests that FdVI may have a similar role in R. capsulatus.
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- I Naud
- Laboratoire de Biochimie Microbienne (CNRS URA 1130 alliée à l'INSERM), Département de Biologie Moléculaire et Structurale, Grenoble, France
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Drincovich MF, Andreo CS. Redox regulation of maize NADP-malic enzyme by thiol-disulfide interchange: effect of reduced thioredoxin on activity. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1994; 1206:10-6. [PMID: 8186239 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(94)90066-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Incubation of C4 NADP-malic enzyme from maize leaves with the oxidant o-iodosobenzoate leads to the reversible and complete inactivation of the enzyme. The time-course of inactivation is biphasic with the rate depending on the o-iodosobenzoate concentration. The inactivation is partially prevented by L-malate, NADP and Mg2+ alone, while NADP plus Mg2+ afford total protection. The complete reversal of the inactivation by the reductive agents dithiothreitol and 2-mercaptoethanol suggests that the modification of the enzyme by o-iodosobenzoate occurs concomitant with the oxidation of one or more pairs of sulfhydryl groups to the disulfide state, producing a conformationally altered form of the protein or directly modifying the active site. Titration of free thiol groups before and after inactivation of maize malic enzyme by o-iodosobenzoate shows a decrease in the accessible groups from 7 to 5, suggesting inactivation is accompanied by oxidation of two vicinal thiols. The oxidized form of the enzyme is rapidly reactivated by incubation with chemical and photochemically reduced thioredoxin in vitro, while the 'dark' activity of the enzyme is enhanced to the level of the 'light' activity by dithiothreitol. This evidence suggests that a reversible reduction and oxidation of disulfide bonds may take place during the regulation of the enzyme, indicating that the redox state of the disulfide bonds of C4 NADP-malic enzyme from maize leaves is important for the expression of maximal catalytic activity.
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- M F Drincovich
- Centro de Estudios Fotosintéticos y Bioquímicos, CONICET F.M. Lillo Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
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Mino Y. Identical amino acid sequence of ferredoxin from Datura metel and D. innoxia. PHYTOCHEMISTRY 1994; 35:385-387. [PMID: 7764481 DOI: 10.1016/s0031-9422(00)94769-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The complete amino acid sequence of the respective [2Fe-2S] ferredoxins from Datura metel (D. alba) and D. innoxia, have been determined by automated Edman degradation of the entire Cm-protein and of the peptides obtained by tryptic digestion and CNBr treatment. The ferredoxins from the two plants had an identical amino acid sequence, suggesting a very close taxonomic relationship between the two. This is the first report for the identical primary structure of Fds from different species of higher plants.
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- Y Mino
- Department of Pharmacognosy, Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Japan
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Hurley JK, Salamon Z, Meyer TE, Fitch JC, Cusanovich MA, Markley JL, Cheng H, Xia B, Chae YK, Medina M. Amino acid residues in Anabaena ferredoxin crucial to interaction with ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase: site-directed mutagenesis and laser flash photolysis. Biochemistry 1993; 32:9346-54. [PMID: 8369305 DOI: 10.1021/bi00087a013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Ferredoxin (Fd) functions in photosynthesis to transfer electrons from photosystem I to ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase (FNR). We have made several site-directed mutants of Anabaena 7120 Fd and have used laser flash photolysis to investigate the effects of these mutations on the kinetics of reduction of oxidized Fd by deazariboflavin semiquinone (dRfH.) and the reduction of oxidized Anabaena FNR by reduced Fd. None of the mutations influenced the second-order rate constant for dRfH. reduction by more than a factor of 2, suggesting that the ability of the [2Fe-2S] cluster to participate in electron transfer was not seriously affected. In contrast, a surface charge reversal mutation, E94K, resulted in a 20,000-fold decrease in the second-order rate constant for electron transfer from Fd to FNR, whereas a similar mutation at an adjacent site, E95K, produced little or no change in reaction rate constant compared to wild-type Fd. Such a dramatic difference between contiguous surface mutations suggests a very precise surface complementarity at the protein-protein interface. Mutations introduced at F65 (F65I and F65A) also decreased the rate constant for the Fd/FNR electron transfer reaction by more than 3 orders of magnitude. Spectroscopic and thermodynamic measurements with both the E94 and F65 mutants indicated that the kinetic differences cannot be ascribed to changes in gross conformation, redox potential, or FNR binding constant but rather reflect the protein-protein interactions that control electron transfer. Several mutations at other sites in the vicinity of E94 and F65 (R42, T48, D68, and D69) resulted in little or no perturbation of the Fd/FNR interaction.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- J K Hurley
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721
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Gibson KJ. Palmitoleate formation by soybean stearoyl-acyl carrier protein desaturase. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1993; 1169:231-5. [PMID: 7548115 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(93)90245-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Palmitoyl (hexadecanoyl)-acyl carrier protein (ACP) was found to be an alternate substrate for recombinant soybean stearoyl (octadecanoyl)-ACP delta 9-desaturase. The fatty acid product was identified as palmitoleic acid ((Z)-hexadec-9-enoic acid), which suggests that the locus of desaturation was fixed with respect to the carboxyl, not methyl, end of each substrate acyl group. The apparent specificity factor (Vmax/Km) of the desaturase for stearoyl-ACP was > 100-fold larger than for palmitoyl-ACP, mostly because of the difference in Vmax for the two substrates.
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- K J Gibson
- Central Research and Development Department, E.I. DuPont de Nemours, Wilmington, DE 19880-0402, USA
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Mino Y, Usami H, Inoue S, Ikeda K, Ota N. Protein chemotaxonomy of genus Datura: identical amino acid sequence of ferredoxin from two varieties of Datura stramonium. PHYTOCHEMISTRY 1993; 33:601-605. [PMID: 7763797 DOI: 10.1016/0031-9422(93)85455-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The complete amino acid sequence of the respective [2Fe-2S] ferredoxins from two varieties of Datura stramonium, D. stramonium var. stramonium and D. stramonium var. tatula, have been determined by automated Edman degradation of the entire Cm-protein and of the peptides obtained by tryptic digestion and CNBr treatment. The ferredoxins from the two plants exhibited identical amino acid sequences, suggesting a very close taxonomic relationship between the two. This result supports the proposal by Blakeslee and others that these plants, at first named by Linnaeus as two distinct species, i.e. D. stramonium L. and D. tatula L., should be considered two varieties of a single species.
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- Y Mino
- Department of Pharmacognosy, Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Japan
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Andersen B, Scheller HV, Møller BL. The PSI-E subunit of photosystem I binds ferredoxin:NADP+ oxidoreductase. FEBS Lett 1992; 311:169-73. [PMID: 1397306 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(92)81391-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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A photosystem I complex containing the polypeptides PSI-A to PSI-L, light-harvesting complex I and ferredoxin:NADP+ oxidoreductase has been isolated from barley using the non-ionic detergent n-decyl-beta-D-maltopyranoside. The ratio between bound ferredoxin:NADP+ oxidoreductase and P700 is 0.4 +/- 0.2. The complex is highly active in catalyzing light-induced transfer of electrons from plastocyanin to NADP+ at rates of 280 +/- 150 and 1800 +/- 800 mumol NADPH/(mg chl.h), without and in the presence of saturating amounts of exogenously added ferredoxin:NADP+ oxidoreductase, respectively. Endogenously bound ferredoxin:NADP+ oxidoreductase interacts with the PSI-E subunit as demonstrated by cross-linking experiments using two different types of cross-linkers and identification of the products by Western blotting and the use of monospecific antibodies.
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- B Andersen
- Department of Plant Biology, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Pilon M, Rietveld A, Weisbeek P, de Kruijff B. Secondary structure and folding of a functional chloroplast precursor protein. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)88642-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Kieleczawa J, France LL, Sutherland JC, Hind G. pH-induced conformational changes in spinach ferredoxin: steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence studies. Arch Biochem Biophys 1992; 298:63-9. [PMID: 1524443 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(92)90094-d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence techniques were used to monitor pH-induced conformational changes in spinach ferredoxin. An increase was seen in the wave-length maximum of tryptophan-73 (Trp-73) emission, from 325 nm below pH 6.0 to 342 nm above pH 7.0, indicating significantly diminished hydrophobicity, at pH 7.0, in the environment of the indole ring. Raising the solution pH from 6.0 to 7.6 also decreased the binding of the detergent Brij-96, showing that the ferredoxin molecule as a whole became more hydrophilic at higher pH. Nonionic (acrylamide) and ionic (I- and Cs+) quenchers were used to probe the tryptophan environment. Trp-73 is partially shielded from I-, presumably by negatively charged residues, as predicted from the amino acid sequence and three-dimensional structure of plant-type ferredoxins. Ionic strength and pH effects on tryptophan fluorescence lifetimes follow a pattern common to single-tryptophan proteins: the emission decays can be fit to a biexponential model in which the lifetime of the excited state increases with increasing pH. The indication of a pH-induced conformational change in the range pH 6.0 to 7.6 is discussed with reference to the physiological association of ferredoxin with ferredoxin:NADP+ oxidoreductase and the rise in chloroplast stromal pH in the light.
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- J Kieleczawa
- Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
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Sakihama N, Nagai K, Ohmori H, Tomizawa H, Tsujita M, Shin M. Immobilized ferredoxins for affinity chromatography of ferredoxin-dependent enzymes. J Chromatogr A 1992; 597:147-53. [PMID: 1517310 DOI: 10.1016/0021-9673(92)80104-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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An immobilized ferredoxin more stable than the conventional immobilized spinach ferrodoxin was prepared by reacting CNBr-Sepharose with ferredoxins isolated from barley and Synechococcus vulcanus, a thermophilic blue-green alga. The dissociation constants of immobilized ferredoxin from spinach, barley and S. vulcanus for spinach ferredoxin-NADP reductase were 0.922, 2.505 and 5.209 microM, respectively, whereas those for barley ferredoxin-NADP reductase were 1.159, 0.579 and 2.851 microM, respectively. The order of stability was S. vulcanus greater than barley greater than spinach. The immobilized ferredoxin was applied to the simultaneous detection of ferredoxin-dependent enzymes in spinach chloroplasts. Over 20 polypeptides were detected. Synechococcus ferredoxin could also be immobilized on a Toyopearl gel and repeatedly used in an automated high-performance liquid chromatographic system.
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- N Sakihama
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kobe University, Japan
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Hanley J, Kear J, Bredenkamp G, Li G, Heathcote P, Evans M. Biochemical evidence for the role of the bound iron-sulphur centres A and B in NADP reduction by Photosystem I. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(92)90212-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Britt RD, Sauer K, Klein MP, Knaff DB, Kriauciunas A, Yu CA, Yu L, Malkin R. Electron spin echo envelope modulation spectroscopy supports the suggested coordination of two histidine ligands to the Rieske Fe-S centers of the cytochrome b6f complex of spinach and the cytochrome bc1 complexes of Rhodospirillum rubrum, Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26, and bovine heart mitochondria. Biochemistry 1991; 30:1892-901. [PMID: 1847076 DOI: 10.1021/bi00221a023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Electron spin echo envelope modulation (ESEEM) experiments performed on the Rieske Fe-S clusters of the cytochrome b6f complex of spinach chloroplasts and of the cytochrome bc1 complexes of Rhodospirillum rubrum, Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26, and bovine heart mitochondria show modulation components resulting from two distinct classes of 14N ligands. At the g = 1.92 region of the Rieske EPR spectrum of the cytochrome b6f complex, the measured hyperfine couplings for the two classes of coupled nitrogens are A1 = 4.6 MHz and A2 = 3.8 MHz. Similar couplings are observed for the Rieske centers in the three cytochrome bc1 complexes. These ESEEM results indicate a nitrogen coordination environment for these Rieske Fe-S centers that is similar to that of the Fe-S cluster of a bacterial dioxygenase enzyme with two coordinated histidine ligands [Gurbiel, R. J., Batie, C. J., Sivaraja, M., True, A. E., Fee, J. A., Hoffman, B. M., & Ballou, D. P. (1989) Biochemistry 28, 4861-4871]. The Rieske Fe-S cluster lacks modulation components from a weakly coupled peptide nitrogen observed in water-soluble spinach ferredoxin. Treatment with the quinone analogue inhibitor DBMIB causes a shift in the Rieske EPR spectrum to g = 1.95 with no alteration in the magnetic coupling to the two nitrogen atoms. However, the ESEEM pattern of the DBMIB-altered Rieske EPR signal shows evidence of an additional weakly coupled nitrogen similar to that observed in the spinach ferredoxin ESEEM patterns.
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- R D Britt
- Laboratory of Chemical Biodynamics, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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Knaff DB, Hirasawa M. Ferredoxin-dependent chloroplast enzymes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1991; 1056:93-125. [PMID: 1671559 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(05)80277-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 198] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- D B Knaff
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock 79409-1061
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Pilon M, de Boer AD, Knols SL, Koppelman MH, van der Graaf RM, de Kruijff B, Weisbeek PJ. Expression in Escherichia coli and purification of a translocation-competent precursor of the chloroplast protein ferredoxin. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)39775-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Identification of a chloroplast-encoded 9-kDa polypeptide as a 2[4Fe-4S] protein carrying centers A and B of photosystem I. J Biol Chem 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)45260-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Purification of a flavoprotein having NADPH-cytochrome c reductase and transhydrogenase activities from Nitrobacter winogradskyi and its molecular and enzymatic properties. Arch Microbiol 1987. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00425355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Rühle W, Pschorn R, Wild A. Regulation of the photosynthetic electron transport during dark-light transitions by activation of the ferredoxin-NADP(+)-oxidoreductase in higher plants. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 1987; 11:161-171. [PMID: 24435492 DOI: 10.1007/bf00018274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/1986] [Revised: 05/09/1986] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Absorbance changes associated with the oxidation and reduction of cytochrome f belong to the classical observations about the interaction of the two photosystems. A complex induction pattern of cytochrome f oxidation results, if both photosystems are excited simultaneously. This indicates a light-modulated regulation of the photosynthetic electron transport, which we examined for intact biological systems of decreasing complexity. The ferredoxin-NADP(+)-oxidoreductase (FNR) is suggested to be activated by light and inactivated in the dark. This is pointed out by the kinetics of variable fluorescence and by the influence of different artificial electron acceptors on the cytochrome f kinetics. The photoreduction of NADP(+) by carefully prepared thylakoids demonstrates the activation process directly.
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- W Rühle
- Institut für Allgemeine Botanik, Saarstr. 21, D-6500, Mainz, Federal Republic of Germany
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Gillham DJ, Dodge AD. Studies into the action of the diphenyl ether herbicides acifluorfen and oxyfluorfen. Part II: The interaction with photosynthetic electron transport reactions. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1987. [DOI: 10.1002/ps.2780190105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Høj PB, Møller BL. The 110-kDa reaction center protein of photosystem I, P700-chlorophyll a-protein 1, is an iron-sulfur protein. J Biol Chem 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)67017-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Carrillo N. Biosynthesis of ferredoxin-NADP+ oxidoreductase. Evidence for the formation of a functional preholoenzyme in the cytoplasmic compartment. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1985; 150:469-74. [PMID: 2862041 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1985.tb09045.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Biosynthesis of ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase in higher plants was investigated in relation with the mechanism of formation of the holoenzyme. The putative precursor of the flavoprotein, obtained after cell-free translation on a wheat germ extract primed with poly(A)-rich mRNA, was able to spontaneously bind free FAD, rendering a functional prereductase. The newly synthesized preholoenzyme showed diaphorase and cytochrome c reductase activities, an apparent molecular mass of 45 kDa, and contained FAD as the only flavin cofactor. It gave a positive reaction towards antisera against mature ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase. On the other hand, intracellular distribution of flavin-synthesizing enzymes indicates that FAD formation occurs in the cytoplasm; that is, in the same compartment as the site of reductase synthesis. On the basis of the preceding data a model is presented for the biosynthesis of the enzyme in vivo, involving conjugation of the apoprotein with FAD in the cytoplasm, followed by transport of the preholoreductase across the chloroplast envelope to reach its final destiny in the thylakoid membrane.
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Batie CJ, Kamin H. Electron transfer by ferredoxin:NADP+ reductase. Rapid-reaction evidence for participation of a ternary complex. J Biol Chem 1984. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(20)71306-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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