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Title: Structure‐based control of the rate limitation of photosynthetic electron transport

Abstract

The 2.5 Å structure of the cytochrome (cyt) b 6 f complex provides a basis for control of the rate‐limiting electron transfer step of oxygenic photosynthesis associated with the plastoquinol/quinone exchange pathway. Here, a structural change was made at a site containing two proline residues which border the intra‐cyt pathway for plastoquinol/quinone exchange. The proline side chains confer a larger aperture for passage of plastoquinol/quinone. Change of these prolines to alanine in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 results in attenuation of this rate‐limiting step, observed by a two‐fold reduction in the rate of cell growth, O 2 evolution, and plastoquinol‐mediated reduction of cyt f . This study demonstrates modification by site‐directed mutagenesis of photosynthetic energy transduction based on rational application of information in the atomic structure.

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  1. Department of Biological Sciences Purdue University West Lafayette IN USA
  2. Department of Biochemistry Purdue University West Lafayette IN USA
  3. Laboratory of Chemical Physics NIDDK/NIH Bethesda MD USA
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USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1542522
Grant/Contract Number:  
DE‐SC0018238
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Journal Name:
FEBS Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: FEBS Letters Journal Volume: 593 Journal Issue: 16; Journal ID: ISSN 0014-5793
Publisher:
Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
Country of Publication:
Netherlands
Language:
English

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Ness, Jillian, Naurin, Sejuti, Effinger, Katherine, Stadnytskyi, Valentyn, Ibrahim, Iskander M., Puthiyaveetil, Sujith, and Cramer, William A.. Structure‐based control of the rate limitation of photosynthetic electron transport. Netherlands: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1002/1873-3468.13484.
Ness, Jillian, Naurin, Sejuti, Effinger, Katherine, Stadnytskyi, Valentyn, Ibrahim, Iskander M., Puthiyaveetil, Sujith, & Cramer, William A.. Structure‐based control of the rate limitation of photosynthetic electron transport. Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.13484
Ness, Jillian, Naurin, Sejuti, Effinger, Katherine, Stadnytskyi, Valentyn, Ibrahim, Iskander M., Puthiyaveetil, Sujith, and Cramer, William A.. Mon . "Structure‐based control of the rate limitation of photosynthetic electron transport". Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.13484.
@article{osti_1542522,
title = {Structure‐based control of the rate limitation of photosynthetic electron transport},
author = {Ness, Jillian and Naurin, Sejuti and Effinger, Katherine and Stadnytskyi, Valentyn and Ibrahim, Iskander M. and Puthiyaveetil, Sujith and Cramer, William A.},
abstractNote = {The 2.5 Å structure of the cytochrome (cyt) b 6 f complex provides a basis for control of the rate‐limiting electron transfer step of oxygenic photosynthesis associated with the plastoquinol/quinone exchange pathway. Here, a structural change was made at a site containing two proline residues which border the intra‐cyt pathway for plastoquinol/quinone exchange. The proline side chains confer a larger aperture for passage of plastoquinol/quinone. Change of these prolines to alanine in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 results in attenuation of this rate‐limiting step, observed by a two‐fold reduction in the rate of cell growth, O 2 evolution, and plastoquinol‐mediated reduction of cyt f . This study demonstrates modification by site‐directed mutagenesis of photosynthetic energy transduction based on rational application of information in the atomic structure.},
doi = {10.1002/1873-3468.13484},
journal = {FEBS Letters},
number = 16,
volume = 593,
place = {Netherlands},
year = {2019},
month = {7}
}

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