title: Comparative studies on the properties of the extrinsic manganese-stabilizing protein from higher plants and of a synthetic peptide of its C-terminus.
abstract: The present study describes a comparative analysis on the fluorescence properties of the manganese-stabilizing protein (MSP), a synthetic peptide corresponding to its C terminus and a 7:1 (molar ratio) mixture of N-acetyl-tyrosine and N-acetyl-tryptophan, respectively, together with reconstitution experiments of oxygen evolution in MSP-depleted photosystem II (PS II) membrane fragments. It is found: (i) at neutral pH, the fluorescence from Trp(241) is strongly diminished in MSP solutions, whereas it highly dominates the overall emission from the C-terminus peptide; (ii) at alkaline pH, the emission of Tyr and Trp is quenched in both, MSP and C-terminus peptide, with increasing pH but the decline curve is shifted by about two pH units towards the alkaline region in MSP; (iii) a drastically different pattern emerges in the 7:1 mixture where the Trp emission even slightly increases at high pH; (iv) the anisotropy of the fluorescence emission is wavelength-independent (310-395 nm) and indicative of one emitter type (Trp) in the C-terminus peptide and of two emitter types (Tyr, Trp) in MSP; and (v) in MSP-depleted PS II membrane fragments the oxygen evolution is restored (up to 85% of untreated control) by rebinding of MSP but not by the C-terminus peptide, however, the presence of the latter diminishes the restoration effect of MSP. A quenching mechanism of Trp fluorescence by a next neighbored tyrosinate in the peptide chain is proposed and the relevance of the C terminus of MSP briefly discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, Sweden.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shutova
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Villarejo
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zietz
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Klimov
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gillbro
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Samuelsson
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Renger
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D005454:Fluorescence Polarization; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007700:Kinetics; D008345:Manganese / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010100:Oxygen / Q000378:metabolism; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D045322:Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D045332:Photosystem II Protein Complex; D011485:Protein Binding; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence; D014364:Tryptophan / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D010446:Peptide Fragments; D045322:Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins; D045332:Photosystem II Protein Complex; C064388:oxygen-evolving complex, 33 kDa protein; D008345:Manganese; D014364:Tryptophan; D010100:Oxygen