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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 291, Issue 36, Pages 18689-18699Publisher
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DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M116.721175
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- Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science, United States Department of Energy [DE-FG02-99ER20350]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-FG02-99ER20350] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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In photosynthetic organisms like cyanobacteria and plants, the main engines of oxygenic photosynthesis are the pigment protein complexes photosystem I (PSI) and photosystem II (PSII) located in the thylakoid membrane. In the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, the str1796 gene encodes a single cysteine thioredoxin-like protein, orthologs of which are found in multiple cyanobacterial strains as well as chloroplasts of higher plants. Targeted inactivation of slr1796 in Synechocystis 6803 resulted in compromised photoautotrophic growth. The mutant displayed decreased chlorophyll a content. These changes correlated with a decrease in the PSI titer of the mutant cells, whereas the PSII content was unaffected. In the mutant, the transcript levels of genes for PSI structural and accessory proteins remained unaffected, whereas the levels of PSI structural proteins were severely diminished, indicating that Slr1796 acts at a posttranscriptional level. Biochemical analysis indicated that Slr1796 is an integral thylakoid membrane protein. We conclude that Slr1796 is a novel regulatory factor that modulates PSI titer.
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