Polarized Absorption Spectra of the B800–850 Light-Harvesting and the RC-B875 Reaction Center Complexes from Purple Bacteria

1990 ◽  
pp. 1081-1084 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Steck ◽  
T. Wacker ◽  
G. Drews ◽  
N. Gad’on ◽  
R. Cogdell ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Reaction Center ◽  
Absorption Spectra ◽  
Light Harvesting ◽  
Purple Bacteria ◽  
Reaction Center Complexes

scholarly journals Structural and Spectroscopic Properties of a Reaction Center Complex from the Chlorosome-Lacking Filamentous Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacterium Roseiflexus castenholzii

2005 ◽  
Vol 187 (5) ◽  
pp. 1702-1709 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitsunori Yamada ◽  
Hui Zhang ◽  
Satoshi Hanada ◽  
Kenji V. P. Nagashima ◽  
Keizo Shimada ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Center ◽  
Phylogenetic Trees ◽  
Light Harvesting ◽  
Purple Bacteria ◽  
Photosynthetic Apparatus ◽  
Spectroscopic Properties ◽  
Phototrophic Bacteria ◽  
Amino Acid Sequences ◽  
Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria ◽  
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ABSTRACT The photochemical reaction center (RC) complex of Roseiflexus castenholzii, which belongs to the filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria (green filamentous bacteria) but lacks chlorosomes, was isolated and characterized. The genes coding for the subunits of the RC and the light-harvesting proteins were also cloned and sequenced. The RC complex was composed of L, M, and cytochrome subunits. The cytochrome subunit showed a molecular mass of approximately 35 kDa, contained hemes c, and functioned as the electron donor to the photo-oxidized special pair of bacteriochlorophylls in the RC. The RC complex appeared to contain three molecules of bacteriochlorophyll and three molecules of bacteriopheophytin, as in the RC preparation from Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Phylogenetic trees based on the deduced amino acid sequences of the RC subunits suggested that R. castenholzii had diverged from C. aurantiacus very early after the divergence of filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria from purple bacteria. Although R. castenholzii is phylogenetically related to C. aurantiacus, the arrangement of its puf genes, which code for the light-harvesting proteins and the RC subunits, was different from that in C. aurantiacus and similar to that in purple bacteria. The genes are found in the order pufB, -A, -L, -M, and -C, with the pufL and pufM genes forming one continuous open reading frame. Since the photosynthetic apparatus and genes of R. castenholzii have intermediate characteristics between those of purple bacteria and C. aurantiacus, it is likely that they retain many features of the common ancestor of purple bacteria and filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria.

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