title: Two novel phycoerythrin-associated linker proteins in the marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain WH8102.
abstract: The recent availability of the whole genome of Synechococcus sp. strain WH8102 allows us to have a global view of the complex structure of the phycobilisomes of this marine picocyanobacterium. Genomic analyses revealed several new characteristics of these phycobilisomes, consisting of an allophycocyanin core and rods made of one type of phycocyanin and two types of phycoerythrins (I and II). Although the allophycocyanin appears to be similar to that found commonly in freshwater cyanobacteria, the phycocyanin is simpler since it possesses only one complete set of alpha and beta subunits and two rod-core linkers (CpcG1 and CpcG2). It is therefore probably made of a single hexameric disk per rod. In contrast, we have found two novel putative phycoerythrin-associated linker polypeptides that appear to be specific for marine Synechococcus spp. The first one (SYNW2000) is unusually long (548 residues) and apparently results from the fusion of a paralog of MpeC, a phycoerythrin II linker, and of CpeD, a phycoerythrin-I linker. The second one (SYNW1989) has a more classical size (300 residues) and is also an MpeC paralog. A biochemical analysis revealed that, like MpeC, these two novel linkers were both chromophorylated with phycourobilin. Our data suggest that they are both associated (partly or totally) with phycoerythrin II, and we propose to name SYNW2000 and SYNW1989 MpeD and MpeE, respectively. We further show that acclimation of phycobilisomes to high light leads to a dramatic reduction of MpeC, whereas the two novel linkers are not significantly affected. Models for the organization of the rods are proposed.
authors.affiliation: Département "Phytoplancton Océanique," Station Biologique, UMR 7127 CNRS & Université Pierre et Marie Curie, BP 74, 29682 Roscoff cedex, France.
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Six
authors.forename: Jean-Claude
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Thion
authors.forename: Yves
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lemoine
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zal
authors.forename: Frédéric
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Partensky
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D045524:Phycobilisomes / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D010799:Phycoerythrin / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D046940:Synechococcus / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D045524:Phycobilisomes; D010799:Phycoerythrin
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