Abstract
Chlorophyll-protein-detergent complexes were prepared from pea chloroplasts by using sodium dodecylbenzenesulphonate and polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis. Circular-dichroism spectra showed that complex CPI has a dimeric arrangement of chlorophyll a, with additional weaker interactions. Ellipticities were determined for both complexes and for purified chlorophylls in solution, and it is argued that the circular dichroism of complex CPII is derived from chlorophyll-protein interaction rather than from interaction between chlorophylls a and b. The detergent could be removed from the complexes by using urea and gel filtration, leaving the chlorophyll-protein in solution, although in each case a diminished ellipticity indicated some loss of organization. Three-peaked circular-dichroism spectra of chloroplast fragments before and after addition of detergent were compared with a curve obtained by summing graphically the spectra of complexes CPI, CPII and the free-pigment fraction. There was good correspondence at 650 nm, and the longer-wavelength peaks agreed in form and magnitude, but with discrepancies in position. It was concluded that complexes CPI and CPII pre-exist in the original material, but that there is an environmental effect which is destroyed when the complexes are extracted.
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