Chlorophyll‐protein complexes of barley photosystem I
- 3 March 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 163 (2) , 221-230
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1987.tb10791.x
Abstract
Photosystem I (PSI) preparations with a chlorophyll a/b ratio of 6.0 were isolated from barley thylakoids using two different methods. The high-molecular-mass complex (CP1a*) which is resolved by non-denaturing gel electrophoresis had the same properties as a PSI preparation (PSI-200) isolated by Triton X-100 solubilisation of thylakoids followed by sucrose gradient ultracentrifugation. This material had a chlorophyll:P700 ratio of 208:1 and was composed of three different chlorophyll-protein complexes which could be separated from each other by solubilising the PSI preparation in dodecyl maltoside followed by sucrose gradient ultracentrifugation. Approximately half of the chlorophyll, including all the chlorophyll b, was located in two antenna complexes designated LHCI-680 and LHCI-730, which were identified by their characteristic low-temperature fluorescence emission spectra. The rest of the chlorophyll a was associated with the PSI reaction centre, P700 Chla-P1, which fluoresced at 720 nm. Each chlorophyll-protein complex had a unique polypeptide composition and characteristic circular dichroic and absorption spectra. The use of dodecyl maltoside instead of dodecyl sulphate resulted in a less denatured form of LHCI-680, which fluoresced at 690 nm at 77 K. One of the sucrose gradient fractions contained a complex consisting of only LHCI-730 and P700 Chla-P1 which fluoresced at 731 nm, indicated that LHCI-730 is structurally associated with P700 Chla-P1 and quenches its fluorescence. Approximately three-quarters of the light-harvesting antenna chlorophyll was in LHCI-730, but only about one-quarter of the normal complement of LHCI-730 was required to quench the reaction centre. By reducing the amount of Triton relative to the chlorophyll concentration, a PSI preparation chlorophyll a/b ratio of 3.5) with a chlorophyll:P700 ratio of 300:1 was isolated. It contained no photosystem II, but a significant amount of LHCII which was functionally connected to the PSI reaction centre. Reconstitution studies demonstrated that excitation energy transfer from LHCII to PSI requires the presence of LHCI-680, and we propose that, in PSI, the following linear excitation energy transfer sequence occurs: LHCII .fwdarw. LHCI-680 .fwdarw. LHCI-730 .fwdarw. P700 Chla-P1.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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