Journal
PLANT CELL
Volume 26, Issue 8, Pages 3435-3448Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.114.125930
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB 480]
- Research School of the Ruhr University Bochum
- Greif-Stiftung
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The cyanobacterial cytochrome b(6)f complex is central for the coordination of photosynthetic and respiratory electron transport and also for the balance between linear and cyclic electron transport. The development of a purification strategy for a highly active dimeric b(6)f complex from the thermophilic cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus BP-1 enabled characterization of the structural and functional role of the small subunit PetP in this complex. Moreover, the efficient transformability of this strain allowed the generation of a Delta petP mutant. Analysis on the whole-cell level by growth curves, photosystem II light saturation curves, and P700(+) reduction kinetics indicate a strong decrease in the linear electron transport in the mutant strain versus the wild type, while the cyclic electron transport via photosystem I and cytochrome b(6)f is largely unaffected. This reduction in linear electron transport is accompanied by a strongly decreased stability and activity of the isolated DpetP complex in comparison with the dimeric wild-type complex, which binds two PetP subunits. The distinct behavior of linear and cyclic electron transport may suggest the presence of two distinguishable pools of cytochrome b(6)f complexes with different functions that might be correlated with supercomplex formation.
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