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A Conserved Rubredoxin Is Necessary for Photosystem II Accumulation in Diverse Oxygenic Photoautotrophs

Journal Article · · Journal of Biological Chemistry
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  1. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Howard Hughes Medical Inst. Dept. of Plant and Microbial Biology; DOE/OSTI
  2. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Howard Hughes Medical Inst. Dept. of Plant and Microbial Biology
  3. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Howard Hughes Medical Inst. Dept. of Plant and Microbial Biology; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Physical Biosciences Division
  4. Sorbonne Univ., Paris (France). Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Unite Mixte de Recherche. Inst. de Biologie Physico-Chimique

In oxygenic photosynthesis, two photosystems work in tandem to harvest light energy and generate NADPH and ATP. Photosystem II(PSII),theprotein-pigment complexthatuseslight energyto catalyze the splitting of water, is assembled from its component parts in a tightly regulated process that requires a number of assembly factors. The 2pac mutant of the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii was isolated and found to have no detectable PSII activity, whereas other components of the photosynthetic electron transport chain, including photosystem I, were stillfunctional.PSII activitywasfully restoredby complementation with the RBD1 gene, which encodes a small iron-sulfur protein known as a rubredoxin. Phylogenetic evidence supports the hypothesisthatthis rubredoxin anditsorthologs areuniquetooxygenic phototrophs and distinct from rubredoxins in Archaea and bacteria (excluding cyanobacteria). Knockouts of the rubredoxin orthologs in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and the plant Arabidopsis thaliana were also found to be specifically affected in PSII accumulation. Taken together, our data suggest that this rubredoxin is necessary for normal PSII activity in a diverse set of organisms that perform oxygenic photosynthesis.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER). Biological Systems Science Division; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
1625082
Journal Information:
Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal Name: Journal of Biological Chemistry Journal Issue: 37 Vol. 288; ISSN 0021-9258
Publisher:
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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