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. 1986 Jul;167(1):153–159. doi: 10.1128/jb.167.1.153-159.1986

Role of apparent membrane growth initiation sites during photosynthetic membrane development in synchronously dividing Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides.

P A Reilly, R A Niederman
PMCID: PMC212854  PMID: 3522542

Abstract

Sites of intracytoplasmic membrane growth and temporal relations in the assembly of photosynthetic units were examined in synchronously dividing Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides cells. After rate-zone sedimentation of cell-free extracts, apparent sites of initiation of intracytoplasmic membrane growth formed an upper pigmented band that sedimented more slowly than the intracytoplasmic membrane-derived chromatophore fraction. Throughout the cell cycle, the levels of the peripheral B800-850 light-harvesting pigment-protein complex relative to those of the core B875 complex in the upper pigmented fraction were only about half those of chromatophores. Pulse-labeling studies with L-[35S]methionine indicated that the rates of assembly of proteins in the upper pigmented fraction were much higher than those of chromatophores throughout the cell cycle; rates for the reaction center polypeptides were estimated to be approximately 3.5-fold higher than in chromatophores when the two membrane fractions were equalized on a protein basis. In pulse-chase studies, radioactivity of the reaction center and B875 polypeptides increased significantly in chromatophores and decreased in the upper pigmented band during cell division. These data suggest that the B875 reaction center cores of the photosynthetic units are inserted preferentially into sites of membrane growth initiation isolated in the upper pigmented band and that the incomplete photosynthetic units are transferred from their sites of assembly into the intracytoplasmic membrane during cell division. These results suggested further that B800-850 is added directly to the intracytoplasmic membrane throughout the cell cycle.

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