Tandem mass spectrometric identification of spinach Photosystem II light-harvesting components.

Photosynth Res

Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, 1479 Gortner Avenue, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA,

Published: January 2002

Light-harvesting proteins harness light energy for photosynthesis. Sequences of the Photosystem II (PS II) light harvesting proteins, Lhcb1-6, have been deduced from many plants. However, limited information is available for spinach Lhcb sequences, although a spinach PS II preparation (BBY) is commonly used as a model for plant photosynthetic oxygen evolution [DA Berthold, GT Babcock and CF Yocum (1981) FEBS Lett 134: 231-234]. In this work, we describe the use of tryptic digestion, liquid chromatography, tandem mass spectrometry, and database searching to identify light-harvesting proteins in the spinach BBY preparation. Using this approach, partial amino acid sequences were assigned to the PS II-associated light-harvesting proteins, Lhcb1-6. The identified stretches of sequence are predicted to contain intra-membranous chlorophyll ligands, extra-membranous loop regions, and lutein-binding sites. In addition, we find that at least two distinct Lhcb4 (CP29) polypeptides and two distinct Lhcb1 polypeptides are present in the BBY preparation. One of these Lhcb4 polypeptides has a subsequence that has not been reported for Lhcb4 in any other organism. This work demonstrates the utility of tandem mass spectrometry in the characterization of photosynthetic membrane proteins.

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