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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 121, Issue 19, Pages 5025-5032Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b03341
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan [24570158, 16K07295, 16H04174]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [17K05893, 16H04174, 16K07295, 24570158] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The light harvesting-reaction center (LH1-RC) complex from a new thermophilic purple sulfur bacterium Allochromatium (Alc.) tepidum was isolated and characterized by spectroscopic and thermodynamic analyses. The purified Alc. tepidum LH1-RC complex showed a high thermostability comparable to that of another thermophilic purple sulfur bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum, and spectroscopic characteristics similar to those of a mesophilic bacterium Alc. vinosum. Approximately 4-5 Ca2+ per LH1-RC were detected by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy and isothermal titration calorimetry. Upon removal of Ca2+, the denaturing temperature of the Alc. tepidum LH1-RC complex dropped accompanied by a blue-shift of the LH1 Q(y) absorption band. The effect of Ca2+ was also observed in the resonance Raman shift of the C3-acetyl vC=O band of bacteriochlorophyll-a, indicating changes in the hydrogen-bonding interactions between the pigment and LH1 polypeptides. Thermodynamic parameters for the Ca2+-binding to the Alc. tepidum LH1-RC complex indicated that this reaction is predominantly driven by the largely favorable electrostatic interactions that counteract the unfavorable negative entropy change. Our data support a hypothesis that Alc. tepidum may be a transitional organism between mesophilic and thermophilic purple bacteria and that Ca2+ is one of the major keys to the thermostability of LH1-RC complexes in purple bacteria.
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