THE RESOLUTION OF CHLOROPHYLL a/b BINDING PROTEINS BY A PREPARATIVE METHOD BASED ON FLAT BED ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING
- 1 June 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Photochemistry and Photobiology
- Vol. 51 (6) , 693-703
- https://doi.org/10.1111/php.1990.51.6.693
Abstract
We describe a new fractionation method for intrinsic membrane proteins based on flat bed isoelectric focusing (IEF) in granulated gel. The characteristics of the separation in the presence of the non-ionic detergent dodecylmaltoside are considered. The method has been applied to the fractionation of chlorophyll a/b binding proteins from chloroplast grana membranes. Several Light Harvesting Complexes II (LHC II) have been resolved showing differences in their polypeptide composition. Probing with monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies showed that polypeptides belonging to different [EF fractions with the same mobility in denaturing sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, are immunologically distinct polypeptides. This is the first report of the presence in the thylakoid membrane of a number of LHCII polypeptides that may reflect the genetic complexity of the Cab genes. Moreover preparative amounts have been obtained of the minor chlorophyll a/b proteins CP 29, CP 26 and CP 24 that have been recently described. The analysis of a currently used LHCII preparation by the present method shows that this fraction is actually contaminated by two minor chlorophyll a/b proteins.This publication has 42 references indexed in Scilit:
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