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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 135, Issue 49, Pages 18339-18342Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja4107463
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- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), via a FOM (Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter) program
- ECHO (NWO-CW)
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Feedback mechanisms that dissipate excess photoexcitations in light-harvesting complexes (LHCs) are necessary to avoid detrimental oxidative stress in most photosynthetic eukaryotes. Here we demonstrate the unique ability of LHCSR, a stress-related LHC from the model organism Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, to sense pH variations, reversibly tuning its conformation from a light-harvesting state to a dissipative one. This conformational change is induced exclusively by the acidification of the environment, and the magnitude of quenching is correlated to the degree of acidification of the environment. We show that this ability to respond to different pH values is missing in the related major LHCII, despite high structural homology. Via mutagenesis and spectroscopic characterization, we show that LHCSR's uniqueness relies on its peculiar C-terminus subdomain, which acts as a sensor of the lumenal pH, able to tune the quenching level of the complex.
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