ArticleMolecular microbiology2018
Dynamical localization of a thylakoid membrane binding protein is required for acquisition of photosynthetic competency.
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- Structural basis for Vipp1 membrane binding: from loose coats and carpets to ring and rod assemblies.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2025Article
- The cyanobacterial protein VIPP1 forms ESCRT-III-like structures on lipid bilayers.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2025Article
- Mechanism for Vipp1 spiral formation, ring biogenesis, and membrane repair.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2025Article
- Monomer unfolding of a bacterial ESCRT-III superfamily member is coupled to oligomer disassembly.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2024Article
- Cyanobacterial membrane dynamics in the light of eukaryotic principles.Bioscience reports · 2023Article
- Microdomains heterogeneity in the thylakoid membrane proteins visualized by super-resolution microscopy.Photosynthetica · 2023Article
- Membrane destabilization and pore formation induced by the Synechocystis IM30 protein.Biophysical journal · 2022Article
- Bacterial Vipp1 and PspA are members of the ancient ESCRT-III membrane-remodeling superfamily.Cell · 2021Article
- Orchestral manoeuvres in the light: crosstalk needed for regulation of the Chlamydomonas carbon concentration mechanism.Journal of experimental botany · 2021Review
- Dynamic Changes in Protein-Membrane Association for Regulating Photosynthetic Electron Transport.Cells · 2021Review
- Mini Review: Bacterial Membrane Composition and Its Modulation in Response to Stress.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2021Review
- IM30 IDPs form a membrane-protective carpet upon super-complex disassembly.Communications biology · 2020Article
- Proton Leakage Is Sensed by IM30 and Activates IM30-Triggered Membrane Fusion.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Article
- GTP hydrolysis by Synechocystis IM30 does not decisively affect its membrane remodeling activity.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- VIPP1 rods engulf membranes containing phosphatidylinositol phosphates.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- A brief history of thylakoid biogenesis.Open biology · 2019Review
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Abstract
Vipp1 is highly conserved and essential for photosynthesis, but its function is unclear as it does not participate directly in light-dependent reactions. We analyzed Vipp1 localization in live cyanobacterial cells and show that Vipp1 is highly dynamic, continuously exchanging between a diffuse fraction that is uniformly distributed throughout the cell and a punctate fraction that is concentrated at high curvature regions of the thylakoid located at the cell periphery. Experimentally perturbing the spatial distribution of Vipp1 by relocalizing it to the nucleoid causes a severe growth defect during the transition from non-photosynthetic (dark) to photosynthetic (light) growth. However, the same perturbation of Vipp1 in dark alone or light alone growth conditions causes no growth or thylakoid morphology defects. We propose that the punctuated dynamics of Vipp1 at the cell periphery in regions of high thylakoid curvature enable acquisition of photosynthetic competency, perhaps by facilitating biogenesis of photosynthetic complexes involved in light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis.
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