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Membranes and Bioenergetics

Biochemical Characterization of Photosystem II Antenna Polypeptides in Grana and Stroma Membranes of Spinach ¹

Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309

The photosystem (PS) II antenna system comprises several biochemically and spectroscopically distinct complexes, including light-harvesting complex II (LHCII), chlorophyll-protein complex (CP) 29, CP26, and CP24. LHCII, the most abundant of these, is both structurally and functionally diverse. The photosynthetic apparatus is laterally segregated within the thylakoid membrane into PSI-rich and PSII-rich domains, and the distribution of antenna complexes between these domains has implications for antenna function. We report a detailed analysis of the differences in the polypeptide composition of LHCII, CP29, and CP26 complexes associated with grana and stroma thylakoid fractions from spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.), making use of a very high-resolution denaturing gel system, coupled with immunoblots using monospecific antibodies to identify specific antenna components. We first show that the polypeptide composition of the PSII antenna system is more complex than previously thought. We resolved at least five type I LHCII apoproteins and two to three type II LHCII apoproteins. We also resolved at least two apoproteins each for CP29 and CP26. In state 1-adapted grana and stroma thylakoid membranes, the spectrum of LHCII apoproteins is surprisingly similar. However, in addition to overall quantitative differences, we saw subtle but reproducible qualitative differences in the spectrum of LHCII apoproteins in grana and stroma membrane domains, including two forms of the major type II apoprotein. The implications of these findings for models of PSII antenna function in spinach are discussed.

¹ Supported by National Institutes of Health grant No. GM22912 to L.A.S.

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