title: Isolation and purification of the major photosynthetic antenna, fucoxanthin-Chl a/c protein, from cultured discoid germilings of the brown Alga, Cladosiphon                      okamuranus TOKIDA (Okinawa Mozuku).
abstract: A chlorophyll c binding membrane intrinsic light-harvesting complex, the fucoxanthin-chlorophyll a/c protein (FCP), was isolated from cultured discoid germilings of an edible Japanese brown alga, Cladosiphon (C.) okamuranus TOKIDA (Okinawa Mozuku in Japanese). The discoid germiling is an ideal source of brown algal photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes in terms of its size and easiness of cultivation on a large scale. Ion-exchange chromatography was crucial for the purification of FCP from solubilized thylakoid proteins. The molecular weight of the purified FCP assembly was estimated to be ~56 kDa using blue native-PAGE. Further subunit analyses using 2D-PAGE revealed that the FCP assembled as a trimer consisting of two distinguishable subunits having molecular weights of 18.2 (H) and 17.5 (L) kDa. Fluorescence and fluorescence-excitation spectra confirmed that the purified FCP assembly was functionally intact.
authors.affiliation: The OCU Advanced Research Institute for Natural Science and Technology (OCARINA), 3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, 558-8585, Japan. ritsuko@sci.osaka-cu.ac.jp
authors.forename: Ritsuko
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fujii
authors.forename: Mamiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kita
authors.forename: Yoshiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Iinuma
authors.forename: Naohiro
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Oka
authors.forename: Yuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takaesu
authors.forename: Tomonori
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Taira
authors.forename: Masahiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Iha
authors.forename: Richard J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Cogdell
authors.forename: Hideki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hashimoto
mesh_terms: D002499:Centrifugation, Density Gradient; D061146:Chlorophyll Binding Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D002850:Chromatography, Gel; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D045342:Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D008970:Molecular Weight; D000459:Phaeophyceae / Q000737:chemistry*; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence; D020524:Thylakoids / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D061146:Chlorophyll Binding Proteins; D045342:Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes