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ArticleBiochemistry2011

Native electrospray mass spectrometry reveals the nature and stoichiometry of pigments in the FMO photosynthetic antenna protein.

Jianzhong Wen, Hao Zhang, Michael L Gross, Robert E Blankenship

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Article in Biochemistry, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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  17. Evidence for a cysteine-mediated mechanism of excitation energy regulation in a photosynthetic antenna complex.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016
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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jianzhong WenDepartment of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri 63130, United States.
Hao Zhang
Michael L Gross
Robert E Blankenship
Washington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

YOGA LIFESTYLE INTERVENTION REDUCES BLOOD PRESSURE IN HIV-INFECTED ADULTSP41RR000954 · NCRR · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI GROSS, MICHAEL L · 1985 to 2011
$16.0M
TrainingP41GM103422 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI YARASHESKI, KEVIN E · 2012 to 2019
$12.0M
NCRR NIH HHS 2P41RR000954NCRR NIH HHS P41 RR000954NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103422
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The nature and stoichiometry of pigments in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) photosynthetic antenna protein complex were determined by native electrospray mass spectrometry. The FMO antenna complex was the first chlorophyll-containing protein that was crystallized. Previous results indicate that the FMO protein forms a trimer with seven bacteriochlorophyll a in each monomer. This model has long been a working basis to understand the molecular mechanism of energy transfer through pigment/pigment and pigment/protein coupling. Recent results have suggested, however, that an eighth bacteriochlorophyll is present in some subunits. In this report, a direct mass spectrometry measurement of the molecular weight of the intact FMO protein complex clearly indicates the existence of an eighth pigment, which is assigned as a bacteriochlorophyll a by mass analysis of the complex and HPLC analysis of the pigment. The eighth pigment is found to be easily lost during purification, which results in its partial occupancy in the mass spectra of the intact complex prepared by different procedures. The results are consistent with the recent X-ray structural models. The existence of the eighth bacteriochlorophyll a in this model antenna protein gives new insights into the functional role of the FMO protein and motivates the need for new theoretical and spectroscopic assignments of spectral features of the FMO protein.

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ChlorobiBacterial ProteinsBacteriochlorophyll ALight-Harvesting Protein ComplexesModels, MolecularMolecular WeightMultiprotein ComplexesPigments, BiologicalProtein MultimerizationProtein SubunitsSpectrometry, Mass, Electrospray IonizationBacterial ProteinsBacteriochlorophyll AFMO bacteriochlorophyll protein, BacteriaLight-Harvesting Protein ComplexesMultiprotein ComplexesPigments, BiologicalProtein Subunits

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PMID21449539
PMCPMC4000732
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