title: Assembly of the major light-harvesting complex II in lipid nanodiscs.
abstract: Self-aggregation of isolated plant light-harvesting complexes (LHCs) upon detergent extraction is associated with fluorescence quenching and is used as an in vitro model to study the photophysical processes of nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ). In the NPQ state, in vivo induced under excess solar light conditions, harmful excitation energy is safely dissipated as heat. To prevent self-aggregation and probe the conformations of LHCs in a lipid environment devoid from detergent interactions, we assembled LHCII trimer complexes into lipid nanodiscs consisting of a bilayer lipid matrix surrounded by a membrane scaffold protein (MSP). The LHCII nanodiscs were characterized by fluorescence spectroscopy and found to be in an unquenched, fluorescent state. Remarkably, the absorbance spectra of LHCII in lipid nanodiscs show fine structure in the carotenoid and Q(y) region that is different from unquenched, detergent-solubilized LHCII but similar to that of self-aggregated, quenched LHCII in low-detergent buffer without magnesium ions. The nanodisc data presented here suggest that 1), LHCII pigment-protein complexes undergo conformational changes upon assembly in nanodiscs that are not correlated with downregulation of its light-harvesting function; and 2), these effects can be separated from quenching and aggregation-related phenomena. This will expand our present view of the conformational flexibility of LHCII in different microenvironments.
authors.affiliation: Section of Biophysics, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. a.pandit@vu.nl
authors.forename: Anjali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pandit
authors.forename: Nazhat
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Shirzad-Wasei
authors.forename: Lucyna M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Wlodarczyk
authors.forename: Henny
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: van Roon
authors.forename: Egbert J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Boekema
authors.forename: Jan P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Dekker
authors.forename: Willem J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: de Grip
mesh_terms: D007700:Kinetics; D045342:Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008055:Lipids / Q000737:chemistry*; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence; D018724:Spinacia oleracea / Q000378:metabolism*; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D045342:Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes; D008055:Lipids
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