Genes encoding core components of the phycobilisome in the cyanobacterium Calothrix sp. strain PCC 7601: occurrence of a multigene family
- 1 December 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 170 (12), 5512-5521
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.170.12.5512-5521.1988
Abstract
The phycobilisome is the major light-harvesting complex of cyanobacteria. It is composed of a central core from which six rods radiate. Allphycocyanin, an alpha beta oligomer (alpha AP and beta AP), is the main component of the core which also contains three other phycobiliproteins (alpha APB, beta 18.3, and L92CM) and a small linker polypeptide (L7.8C). By heterologous DNA hybridization, two EcoRI DNA fragments of 3.5 and 3.7 kilobases have been cloned from the chromatically adapting cyanobacterium Calothrix sp. strain PCC 7601. Nucleotide sequence determination has allowed the identification of five apc genes: apcA1 (alpha AP1), apcA2 (alpha AP2), apcB1 (beta AP1), apcC (L7.8C), and apcE (L92CM). Four of these genes are adjacent on the chromosome and form the apcEA1B1C gene cluster. In contrast, no genes have been found close to the apcA2 gene which is carried by the 3.5-kilobase EcoRI fragment. Transcriptional analysis and 5'-end-mapping experiments were performed. The results obtained demonstrate that the apcEA1B1C gene cluster forms an operon from which segmented transcripts originate, whereas the apcA2 gene behaves as a monocistronic unit. Qualitatively, the same transcripts were identified regardless of the light wavelengths received during cell growth. The deduced amino acid sequences of the apc gene products are very similar to their known homologs of either cyanobacterial or eucaryotic origin. It was interesting, however, that in the apcA1 and apcA2 genes, whose products correspond to alpha-type allophycocyanin subunits, nucleotide sequences were more conserved (67%) than were the deduced amino acid sequences (59%).This publication has 45 references indexed in Scilit:
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