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Generation of Marked and Markerless Mutants in Model Cyanobacterial Species
Published on: May 29, 2016
Active NDH-1 complexes from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803
Weimin Ma1, Young Deng, Teruo Ogawa
1National Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 300 Fenglin Road, Shanghai, 200032, PR China.
Abstract:
We identified eight bands by staining native gels for NADPH-nitroblue tetrazolium oxidoreductase activity after electrophoresis of n-dodecyl-beta-d-maltoside-treated membranes of Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803. Among them, bands A, C, D and E were attributed to the activity of NADPH dehydrogenase (NDH-1). Band A is a highly active supercomplex of NDH-1 (about 1,000 kDa) that was absent in the DeltandhD1/D2 mutant and was suppressed under low CO(2). Band C was induced under low CO(2) or in the DeltandhD1/D2 mutant and was converted to bands D and E. Bands A and C appear to be an NDH-1L dimer and NDH-1M, respectively, with subunits essential for the activity.
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