title: Biochemical and structural studies of the large Ycf4-photosystem I assembly complex of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
abstract: Ycf4 is a thylakoid protein essential for the accumulation of photosystem I (PSI) in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Here, a tandem affinity purification tagged Ycf4 was used to purify a stable Ycf4-containing complex of >1500 kD. This complex also contained the opsin-related COP2 and the PSI subunits PsaA, PsaB, PsaC, PsaD, PsaE, and PsaF, as identified by mass spectrometry (liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry) and immunoblotting. Almost all Ycf4 and COP2 in wild-type cells copurified by sucrose gradient ultracentrifugation and subsequent ion exchange column chromatography, indicating the intimate and exclusive association of Ycf4 and COP2. Electron microscopy revealed that the largest structures in the purified preparation measure 285 x 185 A; these particles may represent several large oligomeric states. Pulse-chase protein labeling revealed that the PSI polypeptides associated with the Ycf4-containing complex are newly synthesized and partially assembled as a pigment-containing subcomplex. These results indicate that the Ycf4 complex may act as a scaffold for PSI assembly. A decrease in COP2 to 10% of wild-type levels by RNA interference increased the salt sensitivity of the Ycf4 complex stability but did not affect the accumulation of PSI, suggesting that COP2 is not essential for PSI assembly.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan.
authors.forename: Shin-Ichiro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ozawa
authors.forename: Jon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nield
authors.forename: Akihiro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Terao
authors.forename: Einar J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Stauber
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hippler
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Koike
authors.forename: Jean-David
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Rochaix
authors.forename: Yuichiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takahashi
mesh_terms: D020418:Algal Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D016825:Chlamydomonas reinhardtii / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D002853:Chromatography, Liquid; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D015151:Immunoblotting; D047468:Immunoprecipitation; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008954:Models, Biological; D010788:Photosynthesis / Q000502:physiology; D045331:Photosystem I Protein Complex / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D053719:Tandem Mass Spectrometry; D014461:Ultracentrifugation
chemical_list: D020418:Algal Proteins; D045331:Photosystem I Protein Complex
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