Publication Date:
1996-06-21
Description:
Peridinin-chlorophyll-protein, a water-soluble light-harvesting complex that has a blue-green absorbing carotenoid as its main pigment, is present in most photosynthetic dinoflagellates. Its high-resolution (2.0 angstrom) x-ray structure reveals a noncrystallographic trimer in which each polypeptide contains an unusual jellyroll fold of the alpha-helical amino- and carboxyl-terminal domains. These domains constitute a scaffold with pseudo-twofold symmetry surrounding a hydrophobic cavity filled by two lipid, eight peridinin, and two chlorophyll a molecules. The structural basis for efficient excitonic energy transfer from peridinin to chlorophyll is found in the clustering of peridinins around the chlorophylls at van der Waals distances.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hofmann, E -- Wrench, P M -- Sharples, F P -- Hiller, R G -- Welte, W -- Diederichs, K -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1996 Jun 21;272(5269):1788-91.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Fakultat fur Biologie, Universitat Konstanz, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8650577" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Carotenoids/*chemistry
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Chlorophyll/chemistry
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Crystallography, X-Ray
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Dinoflagellida/*chemistry/metabolism
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Energy Transfer
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Hydrogen Bonding
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Models, Molecular
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Molecular Conformation
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Photosynthesis
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*Protein Conformation
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Protein Folding
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Protein Structure, Secondary
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Protozoan Proteins/*chemistry
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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