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Ligand requirement for LHC I reconstitution

Volkmar H.r. SchmidPeter BeutelmannGregory W. SchmidtHarald Paulsen

subject

chemistry.chemical_classificationPhosphatidylglycerolLight-harvesting complexchemistry.chemical_compoundLuteinchemistryBiophysicsPhotosynthesisPhotosystem ILigand (biochemistry)Function (biology)Amino acid

description

Knowledge of the structure of photosynthetic light harvesting complexes is essential for understanding their function. Reconstitution of light harvesting complexes proved to be a very powerful tool for such structure analyses. In this way evidence was obtained for the central role of lutein and chlorophylls for LHCII structure (1) which was later confirmed by electron crystallographic analyses (2). Employing mutated, bacterial overexpressed LHCII apoproteins, amino acids could be identified which are involved in trimerization of LHCII and probably in binding of phosphatidylglycerol (3).

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
1998-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3953-3_101