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Identification of a Role for an Azide-Sensitive Factor in the Thylakoid Transport of the 17-Kilodalton Subunit of the Photosynthetic Oxygen-Evolving Complex1

Ellen A. Leheny, Sarah A. Teter, and Steven M. Theg*

Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Plant Biology, One Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis, California 95616

We have examined the transport of the precursor of the 17-kD subunit of the photosynthetic O2-evolving complex (OE17) in intact chloroplasts in the presence of inhibitors that block two protein-translocation pathways in the thylakoid membrane. This precursor uses the transmembrane pH gradient-dependent pathway into the thylakoid lumen, and its transport across the thylakoid membrane is thought to be independent of ATP and the chloroplast SecA homolog, cpSecA. We unexpectedly found that azide, widely considered to be an inhibitor of cpSecA, had a profound effect on the targeting of the photosynthetic OE17 to the thylakoid lumen. By itself, azide caused a significant fraction of mature OE17 to accumulate in the stroma of intact chloroplasts. When added in conjunction with the protonophore nigericin, azide caused the maturation of a fraction of the stromal intermediate form of OE17, and this mature protein was found only in the stroma. Our data suggest that OE17 may use the sec-dependent pathway, especially when the transmembrane pH gradient-dependent pathway is inhibited. Under certain conditions, OE17 may be inserted across the thylakoid membrane far enough to allow removal of the transit peptide, but then may slip back out of the translocation machinery into the stromal compartment.

1   This work was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (grant no. 95-37304-2325 to S.M.T.) and by a National Science Foundation training grant fellowship to S.A.T.
*   Corresponding author; e-mail smtheg{at}ucdavis.edu; fax 1-530-752-5410.

Plant Physiol. (1998) 116: 805-814
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