Structural insight into the mechanism of energy transfer in cyanobacterial phycobilisomes
| Autor: | Xiying Li, Peijun Wei, Zheng Zhenggao, Ning Gao, Lvqin Zheng, Jindong Zhao, Kun Zhang, Guopeng Wang |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Cyanobacteria
Models Molecular Science General Physics and Astronomy Photosynthesis General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Article Bacterial Proteins Cryoelectron microscopy Phycobilisomes Bile Pigments Multidisciplinary biology Chemistry Anabaena Phycobiliprotein General Chemistry Chromophore Synechococcus biology.organism_classification Energy Transfer Structural Homology Protein Rhodophyta Biophysics Phycobilisome Protein Multimerization Linker |
| Zdroj: | Nature Communications, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2021) Nature Communications |
| ISSN: | 2041-1723 |
| Popis: | Phycobilisomes (PBS) are the major light-harvesting machineries for photosynthesis in cyanobacteria and red algae and they have a hierarchical structure of a core and peripheral rods, with both consisting of phycobiliproteins and linker proteins. Here we report the cryo-EM structures of PBS from two cyanobacterial species, Anabaena 7120 and Synechococcus 7002. Both PBS are hemidiscoidal in shape and share a common triangular core structure. While the Anabaena PBS has two additional hexamers in the core linked by the 4th linker domain of ApcE (LCM). The PBS structures predict that, compared with the PBS from red algae, the cyanobacterial PBS could have more direct routes for energy transfer to ApcD. Structure-based systematic mutagenesis analysis of the chromophore environment of ApcD and ApcF subunits reveals that aromatic residues are critical to excitation energy transfer (EET). The structures also suggest that the linker protein could actively participate in the process of EET in both rods and the cores. These results provide insights into the organization of chromophores and the mechanisms of EET within cyanobacterial PBS. The major light-harvesting systems for photosynthesis in cyanobacteria and red algae are phycobilisomes (PBS). Here, the authors present the cryo-EM structures of two cyanobacterial PBS from Anabaena 7120 and Synechococcus 7002 and discuss their energy transfer pathways. |
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