ArticlePhotosynthesis research2018
Structural integrity of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 phycobilisomes evaluated by means of differential scanning calorimetry.
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- Phycobilisome integrity and functionality in lipid unsaturation and xanthophyll mutants in Synechocystis.Photosynthesis research · 2020Article
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Abstract
Phycobilisomes (PBSs) are supramolecular pigment-protein complexes that serve as light-harvesting antennae in cyanobacteria. They are built up by phycobiliproteins assembled into allophycocyanin core cylinders (ensuring the physical interaction with the photosystems) and phycocyanin rods (protruding from the cores and having light-harvesting function), the whole PBSs structure being maintained by linker proteins. PBSs play major role in light-harvesting optimization in cyanobacteria; therefore, the characterization of their structural integrity in intact cells is of great importance. The present study utilizes differential scanning calorimetry and spectroscopy techniques to explore for the first time, the thermodynamic stability of PBSs in intact Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 cells and to probe its alteration as a result of mutations or under different growth conditions. As a first step, we characterize the thermodynamic behavior of intact and dismantled PBSs isolated from wild-type cells (having fully assembled PBSs) and from CK mutant cells (that lack phycocyanin rods and contain only allophycocyanin cores), and identified the thermal transitions of phycocyanin and allophycocyanin units in vitro. Next, we demonstrate that in intact cells PBSs exhibit sharp, high amplitude thermal transition at about 63 °C that strongly depends on the structural integrity of the PBSs supercomplex. Our findings implicate that calorimetry could offer a valuable approach for the assessment of the influence of variety of factors affecting the stability and structural organization of phycobilisomes in intact cyanobacterial cells.
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