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PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH
Volume 133, Issue 1-3, Pages 117-127Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11120-017-0370-2
Keywords
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; His-tag; Photosystem II; PsbP
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- JST PRESTO
- JSPS/MEXT KAKENHI [16K07690, 16H06554]
- [15J08254]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15J08254, 16K07690] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The PsbP protein is an extrinsic subunit of photosystem II (PSII) specifically developed in green-plant species including land plants and green algae. The protein-protein interactions involving PsbP and its effect on oxygen evolution have been investigated in vitro using isolated PSII membranes. However, the importance of those interactions needs to be examined at the cellular level. To this end, we developed a system expressing exogenous PsbP in the background of the Chlamydomonas BF25 mutant lacking native PsbP. Expression of His-tagged PsbP successfully restored the oxygen-evolving activity and photoautotrophic growth of the mutant, while PsbP-a dagger 15 lacking the N-terminal 15 residues, which are crucial for the oxygen-evolving activity of spinach PSII in vitro, only partially did. This demonstrated the importance of N-terminal sequence of PsbP for the photosynthetic activity in vivo. Furthermore, the PSII-LHCII supercomplex can be specifically purified from the Chlamydomonas cells having His-tagged PsbP using a metal affinity chromatography. This study provides a platform not only for the functional analysis of PsbP in vivo but also for structural analysis of the PSII-LHCII supercomplex from green algae.
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