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BIOENERGETICS AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS

FesM, a Membrane Iron-Sulfur Protein, Is Required for Cyclic Electron Flow around Photosystem I and Photoheterotrophic Growth of the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002^1,[w]

State Key Laboratory of Protein and Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

While it is known that cyclic electron flow around photosystem I is an important pathway of photosynthetic electron transfer for converting light energy to chemical energy, some components of cyclic electron flow remain to be revealed. Here, we show that fesM, encoding a novel membrane iron-sulfur protein, is essential to cyclic electron flow in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002. The FesM protein is predicted to have a cAMP-binding domain, an NtrC-like domain, a redox sensor motif, and an iron-sulfur (4Fe-4S) motif. Deletion of fesM (fesM-D) led to an inability for Synechococcus cells to grow in the presences of glycerol and 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea. Photoheterotrophic growth was restored by a complete fesM gene present on a replicable plasmid. A mutant fesM gene encoding a truncated FesM protein lacking the cAMP domain failed to restore the phenotype, suggesting this domain is important to the function of FesM. Measurements of reduction of P700⁺ and the redox state of interphotosystem electron carriers showed that cells had a slower rate of respiratory electron donation to the interphotosystem electron transport chain, and cyclic electron flow around photosystem I in fesM-D was impaired, suggesting that FesM is a critical protein for respiratory and cyclic electron flow. Phosphatase fusion analysis showed that FesM contains nine membrane-spanning helices, and all functional domains of FesM are located on the cytoplasmic face of the thylakoid membranes.

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^* Corresponding author; e-mail jzhao{at}pku.edu.cn; fax 86–10–6275–1526.

Received February 17, 2005; returned for revision March 28, 2005; accepted April 6, 2005.

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