Nield J, Balsera M, De Las Rivas J, Barber J. Three-dimensional electron cryo-microscopy study of the extrinsic domains of the oxygen-evolving complex of spinach: assignment of the PsbO protein.
J Biol Chem 2002;
277:15006-12. [PMID:
11815610 DOI:
10.1074/jbc.m110549200]
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Abstract
Three independent three-dimensional reconstructions of the spinach photosystem II-light-harvesting complex supercomplex were derived from single particle analyses of non-stained, vitrified samples imaged by electron microscopy. Each reconstruction was found to differ significantly in the composition of the lumenal oxygen-evolving complex extrinsic proteins. From difference mapping, aided by electron microscopy of negatively stained selectively washed samples, regions of density were assigned to the PsbO and PsbP/PsbQ proteins. Interpretation of the density assigned to the PsbO protein was explored using computer-aided structural predictions. PsbO is calculated to be mainly a beta-protein (38% beta) composed of two domains within an overall elongated shape (Pazos, F., Heredia, P., Valencia, A., and De Las Rivas, J. (2001) Proteins Struct. Funct. Genet. 45, 372-381). The positioning and fitting of the proposed structural model for the PsbO protein within the three-dimensional map indicated that there is a single copy per reaction center. Moreover, the structural model derived for PsbO, together with difference mapping, indicates that this protein stretches across the surface of the reaction center with its N- and C-terminal domains located toward the CP47 and CP43 side, respectively. This structural assignment is discussed in terms of the recent x-ray-derived cyanobacterial model of PSII (Zouni, A., Witt, H.-T., Kern, J., Fromme, P., Krauss, N., Saenger, W., and Orth, P. (2001) Nature 409, 739-743).
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