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Peer-reviewed International journal
Aug, 2019

Structural basis for energy harvesting and dissipation in a diatom PSII-FCPII supercomplex

NATURE PLANTS
  • Ryo Nagao
  • Koji Kato
  • Takehiro Suzuki
  • Kentaro Ifuku
  • Ikuo Uchiyama
  • Yasuhiro Kashino
  • Naoshi Dohmae
  • Seiji Akimoto
  • Jian-Ren Shen
  • Naoyuki Miyazaki
  • Fusamichi Akita
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Volume
5
Number
8
First page
890
Last page
901
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1038/s41477-019-0477-x
Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP

Light-harvesting antenna systems in photosynthetic organisms harvest solar energy and transfer it to the photosynthetic reaction centres to initiate charge-separation and electron-transfer reactions. Diatoms are one of the important groups of oxyphototrophs and possess fucoxanthin chlorophyll a/c-binding proteins (FCPs) as light harvesters. The organization and association pattern of FCP with the photosystem II (PSII) core are unknown. Here we solved the structure of PSII-FCPII supercomplexes isolated from a diatom, Chaetoceros gracilis, by single-particle cryoelectron microscopy. The PSII-FCPII forms a homodimer. In each monomer, two FCP homotetramers and three FCP monomers are associated with one PSII core. The structure reveals a highly complicated protein-pigment network that is different from the green-type light-harvesting apparatus. Comparing these two systems allows the identification of energy transfer and quenching pathways. These findings provide structural insights into not only excitation-energy transfer mechanisms in the diatom PSII-FCPII, but also changes of light harvesters between the red-and green-lineage oxyphototrophs during evolution.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-019-0477-x
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31358960
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000480387700019&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1038/s41477-019-0477-x
  • ISSN : 2055-026X
  • eISSN : 2055-0278
  • Pubmed ID : 31358960
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000480387700019

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