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Title: Structure, function and evolution of the cyanobacterial orange carotenoid protein and its homologs

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Contents Summary 937 I. Introduction 937 II. The structure of the OCP 938 III. OCP function 939 IV. Distribution of OCPs, FRP and domains in cyanobacteria 943 V. Carotenoid–protein interactions in the OCP and the HCPs 947 VI. Conclusions and prospects 948 Acknowledgements 948 References 949 Summary The orange carotenoid protein ( OCP ) is a water‐soluble, photoactive protein involved in thermal dissipation of excess energy absorbed by the light‐harvesting phycobilisomes ( PBS ) in cyanobacteria. The OCP is structurally and functionally modular, consisting of a sensor domain, an effector domain and a keto‐carotenoid. On photoactivation, the OCP converts from a stable orange form, OCP O , to a red form, OCP R . Activation is accompanied by a translocation of the carotenoid deeper into the effector domain. The increasing availability of cyanobacterial genomes has enabled the identification of new OCP families ( OCP 1, OCP 2, OCPX ). The fluorescence recovery protein ( FRP ) detaches OCP 1 from the PBS core, accelerating its back‐conversion to OCP O ; by contrast, other OCP families are not regulated by FRP . N‐terminal domain homologs, the helical carotenoid proteins ( HCP s), have been found among diverse cyanobacteria, occurring as multiplemore » paralogous groups, with two representatives exhibiting strong singlet oxygen ( 1 O 2 ) quenching ( HCP 2, HCP 3) and another capable of dissipating PBS excitation ( HCP 4). Crystal structures are presently available for OCP 1 and HCP 1, and models of other HCP subtypes can be readily produced as a result of strong sequence conservation, providing new insights into the determinants of carotenoid binding and 1 O 2 quenching.« less

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  1. MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI 48824 USA; Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA 94720 USA; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI 48824 USA
  2. MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI 48824 USA; Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA 94720 USA
  3. MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI 48824 USA
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Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory
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USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1596267
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OSTI ID: 1401906
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FG02-91ER20021; DE‐FG02‐91ER20021
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Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
New Phytologist
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 215; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 0028-646X
Publisher:
Wiley
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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Kerfeld, Cheryl A., Melnicki, Matthew R., Sutter, Markus, and Dominguez-Martin, Maria Agustina. Structure, function and evolution of the cyanobacterial orange carotenoid protein and its homologs. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1111/nph.14670.
Kerfeld, Cheryl A., Melnicki, Matthew R., Sutter, Markus, & Dominguez-Martin, Maria Agustina. Structure, function and evolution of the cyanobacterial orange carotenoid protein and its homologs. United States. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14670
Kerfeld, Cheryl A., Melnicki, Matthew R., Sutter, Markus, and Dominguez-Martin, Maria Agustina. Tue . "Structure, function and evolution of the cyanobacterial orange carotenoid protein and its homologs". United States. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14670. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1596267.
@article{osti_1596267,
title = {Structure, function and evolution of the cyanobacterial orange carotenoid protein and its homologs},
author = {Kerfeld, Cheryl A. and Melnicki, Matthew R. and Sutter, Markus and Dominguez-Martin, Maria Agustina},
abstractNote = {Contents Summary 937 I. Introduction 937 II. The structure of the OCP 938 III. OCP function 939 IV. Distribution of OCPs, FRP and domains in cyanobacteria 943 V. Carotenoid–protein interactions in the OCP and the HCPs 947 VI. Conclusions and prospects 948 Acknowledgements 948 References 949 Summary The orange carotenoid protein ( OCP ) is a water‐soluble, photoactive protein involved in thermal dissipation of excess energy absorbed by the light‐harvesting phycobilisomes ( PBS ) in cyanobacteria. The OCP is structurally and functionally modular, consisting of a sensor domain, an effector domain and a keto‐carotenoid. On photoactivation, the OCP converts from a stable orange form, OCP O , to a red form, OCP R . Activation is accompanied by a translocation of the carotenoid deeper into the effector domain. The increasing availability of cyanobacterial genomes has enabled the identification of new OCP families ( OCP 1, OCP 2, OCPX ). The fluorescence recovery protein ( FRP ) detaches OCP 1 from the PBS core, accelerating its back‐conversion to OCP O ; by contrast, other OCP families are not regulated by FRP . N‐terminal domain homologs, the helical carotenoid proteins ( HCP s), have been found among diverse cyanobacteria, occurring as multiple paralogous groups, with two representatives exhibiting strong singlet oxygen ( 1 O 2 ) quenching ( HCP 2, HCP 3) and another capable of dissipating PBS excitation ( HCP 4). Crystal structures are presently available for OCP 1 and HCP 1, and models of other HCP subtypes can be readily produced as a result of strong sequence conservation, providing new insights into the determinants of carotenoid binding and 1 O 2 quenching.},
doi = {10.1111/nph.14670},
journal = {New Phytologist},
number = 3,
volume = 215,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jul 04 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Tue Jul 04 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
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Table 1 Table 1 : Summary of selected amino acids in red carotenoid protein (RCP) and HCP1, HCP2, HCP3 and HCP4 from Anabaena PCC 7120 within 4 Å distance to the carotenoid

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