发布: 2018年06月20日第8卷第12期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2889 浏览次数: 5282
评审: Nidhi SharmaAnonymous reviewer(s)
Abstract
Metals are essential in many biological processes, including oxygenic photosynthesis. Here we described a method to measure the metal pool in whole cells and thylakoids, including the bioactive pool in intact photosynthetic protein complexes in the model oxygenic cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC6803. In the first part of the protocol, whole cells and thylakoid membranes are carefully prepared, in which the total metal concentrations are measured by inductively coupled plasma triple-quadrupole mass spectrometry (ICP-QQQ-MS). In the second part of the protocol, isolated thylakoids are solubilized to release the integral membrane proteins and the metal binding protein complexes. These intact photosynthetic protein complexes are subjected to size exclusion chromatography (SEC) and metal binding in the size separated complexes is analyzed by hyphenation with ICP-QQQ-MS.
Keywords: Cyanobacteria (蓝藻)Background
The process of oxygenic photosynthesis requires metals due to their essential functions as cofactors and catalysts in the photosynthetic electron transport chain. The photosynthetic apparatus requires iron (Fe) in the form of either Fe-S clusters, heme-bridged Fe and non-heme Fe, copper (Cu) in the soluble mobile electron carrier protein plastocyanin, magnesium (Mg) in chlorophylls, calcium (Ca) and manganese (Mn) in the oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II (PSII). Tight control of metal allocation inside photosynthetic cells is essential for cell survival since an imbalanced metal accumulation induces mismetallation and inactivation of the various metallo-enzymes. An accurate analysis of the concentration and allocation of metals in photosynthetic cells is therefore important to investigate the role of key factors and proteins involved in metal homeostasis. While the method described in Brandenburg et al. (2017) accurately quantifies the periplasmic and intracellular pools of Mn in Synechocystis cells, the protocol presented here provides a wider overview, quantifying metals in whole Synechocystis cells, isolated thylakoids, and the bioactive metal pool in fractionated photosynthetic complexes. This protocol is partially based on the method described in Schmidt et al. (2015) for barley thylakoids.
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Gandini, C., Husted, S. and Schmidt, S. B. (2018). Analysis of Metals in Whole Cells, Thylakoids and Photosynthetic Protein Complexes in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803. Bio-protocol 8(12): e2889. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2889.
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植物科学 > 植物生物化学 > 其它化合物
植物科学 > 植物生理学 > 光合作用
生物化学 > 其它化合物 > 元素
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