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. 1986 Sep;82(1):114–120. doi: 10.1104/pp.82.1.114

The Water Oxidation Complex of Chlamydomonas1

Accumulation and Maturation of the Largest Subunit in Photosystem II Mutants

Karen L Greer 1, F Gerald Plumley 1, Gregory W Schmidt 1
PMCID: PMC1056076  PMID: 16664977

Abstract

Photosystem II particles of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii contain three extrinsic polypeptides of 29, 20, and 16 kilodaltons, whose functions are incompletely defined. We prepared a monospecific polyclonal antibody against the 29 kilodalton protein and determined that it also specifically recognizes a protein of approximately 33 kilodaltons in thylakoid membrane fractions of several vascular plants, eukaryotic algae, and a cyanobacterium. The cross-reacting 33 kilodalton protein of pea was removed from inverted thylakoid vesicles by CaCl2 washes demonstrating the structural relationship between the Chlamydomonas polypeptide and the largest subunit of the water oxidation complex of vascular plants. Functional identity of the Chlamydomonas polypeptide was confirmed by antibody inhibition of O2 evolution in inverted pea vesicles. In contrast to wild-type cells, only low levels of the 29 kilodalton polypeptide are recovered with purified thylakoid membranes of the mutants examined. However, we show that the mature form of the 29 kilodalton polypeptide accumulates to wild-type levels in whole cell extracts of photosystem II deficient mutants and a water oxidation mutant of Chlamydomonas. Impaired membrane assembly has no effect on the maturation or stability of this component of the multi-subunit water oxidation complex.

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