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  • Title: The assembly of a multisubunit photosynthetic membrane protein complex: a site-specific spin labeling EPR spectroscopic study of the PsaC subunit in photosystem I.
    Author: Jagannathan B, Dekat S, Golbeck JH, Lakshmi KV.
    Journal: Biochemistry; 2010 Mar 23; 49(11):2398-408. PubMed ID: 20158221.
    Abstract:
    The assembly of the PsaC subunit in the photosystem I (PS I) complex was studied using site-specific spin labeling electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopic techniques. The binding was monitored from the perspective of a reporter spin label attached to either the native C34(C) or the engineered C75(C) residue of wild-type PsaC (PsaC(WT)). Three distinct stages of PsaC assembly were analyzed: unbound PsaC, the P(700)-F(X)/PsaC complex, and the P(700)-F(X)/PsaC/PsaD complex. The changes in the EPR spectral line shape and the rotational correlation time of the spin label when PsaC(WT) binds to the PS I core are consistent with the conformational changes that are expected to occur during the assembly process. The addition of the PsaD subunit to the P(700)-F(X)/PsaC(WT-C34) complex induces further EPR spectral changes, which indicate that the presence of PsaD affects the orientation of the PsaC subunit on the PS I core. The binding of several PsaC variants, each lacking one or more key binding contacts with the PsaA/PsaB heterodimer, was monitored using a reporter spin label at C34(C). Our results indicate that the absence of the PsaC-PsaA/PsaB binding contacts causes PsaC to bind in an altered configuration on the PS I core. In particular, the removal of the entire C-terminus (PsaC(C-term)) causes PsaC to dock in a significantly different orientation when compared to the wild-type protein, as indicated by the EPR spectrum of the P(700)-F(X)/PsaC(C-term-C34) complex. Because the PsaC(C-term) variant retains only the symmetric network of PsaC-PsaA/PsaB ionic contacts, the altered EPR spectrum could, in principle, reflect a fraction of reaction centers that contain PsaC bound in the 180 degrees-rotated, C(2)-symmetry-related configuration. The results of this study are used to provide a comprehensive, stepwise mechanism for the binding of PsaC on the PS I core.
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