Abstract：
:The photosynthetic membrane in purple bacteria contains several pigment-protein complexes that assure light capture and establishment of the chemiosmotic gradient. The bioenergetic tasks of the photosynthetic membrane require the strong interaction between these various complexes. In the present work, we acquired the first images of the native outer membrane architecture and the supramolecular organization of the photosynthetic apparatus in vesicular chromatophores of Rhodobacter (Rb.) veldkampii. Mixed with LH2 (light-harvesting complex 2) rings, the PufX-containing LH1-RC (light-harvesting complex 1--reaction center) core complexes appear as C-shaped monomers, with random orientations in the photosynthetic membrane. Within the LH1 fence surrounding the RC, a remarkable gap that is probably occupied (or partially occupied) by PufX is visualized. Sequence alignment revealed that one specific region in PufX may be essential for PufX-induced core dimerization. In this region of ten amino acids in length all Rhodobacter species had five conserved amino acids, with the exception of Rb. veldkampii. Our findings provide direct evidence that the presence of PufX in Rb. veldkampii does not directly govern the dimerization of LH1-RC core complexes in the native membrane. It is indicated, furthermore, that the high membrane curvature of Rb. veldkampii chromatophores (Rb. veldkampii features equally small vesicular chromatophores alike Rb. sphaeroides) is not due to membrane bending induced by dimeric RC-LH1-PufX cores, as it has been proposed in Rb. sphaeroides.
journal_name
J Struct Bioljournal_title
Journal of structural biologyauthors
Liu LN,Sturgis JN,Scheuring Sdoi
10.1016/j.jsb.2010.08.010subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2011-01-01 00:00:00pages
138-45issue
1eissn
1047-8477issn
1095-8657pii
S1047-8477(10)00240-6journal_volume
173pub_type
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