title: Isolation and characterization of oxygen-evolving thylakoid membranes and photosystem II particles from a glaucocystophyte, Cyanophora paradoxa.
abstract: Conditions for preparing oxygen-evolving thylakoid membranes and PSII complexes, and those for observing the PSII activity were investigated in a glaucocystophyte, Cyanophora paradoxa. The active thylakoid membranes were isolated either with a medium containing glycerol or with that containing high concentrations of sucrose, phosphate, and citrate. Active PSII particles were solubilized by octyl-beta-D-glucoside from thylakoid membranes and were separated by sucrose density gradient centrifugation. The thylakoid membranes and PSII particles showed an oxygen-evolving activity only in high-ionic-strength media. The extrinsic 33 kDa protein (PsbO) and the cytochrome c(550) (PsbV) were found to be present in the PSII particles as in cyanobacteria or red algae, but no 12 kDa protein (PsbU) was detected. The PsbO protein was classified as a land-plant type by its N-terminal amino acid sequence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Life Science, Faculty of Science, Himeji Institute of Technology, Harima Science Garden City, Hyogo, 678-1297, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shibata
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kashino
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Satoh
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Koike
mesh_terms: D015502:Absorptiometry, Photon; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D002458:Cell Fractionation; D002499:Centrifugation, Density Gradient; D019343:Citric Acid / Q000494:pharmacology; D000458:Cyanobacteria / Q000378:metabolism; D003574:Cytochrome c Group / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D056890:Eukaryota / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D005960:Glucosides / Q000494:pharmacology; D005990:Glycerol / Q000494:pharmacology; D007425:Intracellular Membranes / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010100:Oxygen / Q000378:metabolism; D010710:Phosphates / Q000494:pharmacology; D045322:Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D045332:Photosystem II Protein Complex; D000461:Rhodophyta / Q000378:metabolism; D013395:Sucrose / Q000494:pharmacology; D020524:Thylakoids / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D003574:Cytochrome c Group; D005960:Glucosides; D010710:Phosphates; D045322:Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins; D045332:Photosystem II Protein Complex; C107126:PsbU protein, Synechocystis; C064388:oxygen-evolving complex, 33 kDa protein; D019343:Citric Acid; C018619:octyl-beta-D-glucoside; D013395:Sucrose; C031732:cytochrome C-550; D005990:Glycerol; D010100:Oxygen