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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 126, Issue 27, Pages 8399-8405Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja0478781
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [F32DK59731] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM43273] Funding Source: Medline
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In oxygenic photosynthesis, photosystem II (PSII) carries out the oxidation of water and reduction of plastoquinone. Three PSII subunits contain reactive groups that covalently bind amines and phenylhydrazine. It has been proposed that these reactive groups are carbonyl-containing, co- or post-translationally modified amino acids (Ouellette et al. Proc. Nad. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 1998, 95, 2204 and Anderson et al. J. Biol. Chem. 2000, 275, 4920). To identify modified amino acid residues in one of the PSII subunits (CP47), tandem mass spectrometry was performed. Modified residues were affinity-tagged with either biotin-LC-hydrazide or biocytin hydrazide, which are known to label carbonyl groups. The affinity-tagged subunit was isolated by denaturing gel electrophoresis, and tryptic peptides were then subjected to affinity purification and tandem mass spectrometry. This procedure identified a hydrazide-labeled peptide, which has the sequence XKEGR. This result is supported by quantitative results acquired from peptide mapping and methylamine labeling. The gene sequence and these tandem data predict that the first amino acid, X, which is labeled with the hydrazide reagent, is a modified form of aspartic acid. On the basis of these data, we propose that D348 of the CP47 subunit is post- or co-translationally modified to give a novel amino acid side chain, aspartyl aldehyde.
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