Abstract
A method is described for the isolation and purification of ferredoxin-NADP+ oxidoreductase (FNR, E.C. 1.18.1.2) and plastocyanin from spinach thylakoids. FNR is recovered from pools which are loosely and tightly bound to the membrane, with minimal disruption of pigment-protein complexes; yields can thus be higher than from procedures which extract only the loosely bound enzyme.
Washed thylakoid membranes were incubated with the dipolar ionic detergent CHAPS (3-(3-cholamidopropyl-dimethylammonio)-1-propane-sulfonate). This provided an extract containing FNR and PC as its principal protein components, which could be rapidly separated from one another by chromatography on an anion-exchange column. FNR was purified to homogeneity (as judged from sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis and the ratio between protein and flavin absorption maxima), using chromatography on phosphocellulose followed by batchwise adsorption to, and elution from hydroxylapatite. Plastocyanin was further purified on a Sephadex G-75 molecular sieve column.
A typical yield, obtained in 3–4 days from 1 kg of deveined spinach leaves, was 7 mg of pure FNR (a single protein of Mr=37,000) and 3.5 mg of plastocyanin.
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Abbreviations
- CHAPS-:
-
3-(3-cholamidopropyl-dimethylammonio)-1-propanesulfonate)
- Chl-:
-
chlorophyll
- FNR-:
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ferredoxin-NADP+ oxidoreductase
- Mops-:
-
3-(N-morpholino) propanesulfonic acid
- PC-:
-
plastocyanin
- PMSF-:
-
phenylmethanesulfonylfluoride
- SDS-:
-
sodium dodecyl sulfate
- SDS-PAGE-:
-
sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
- Tricine-:
-
N-tris (hydroxymethyl) methylglycine
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Matthijs, H.C.P., Moore, D., Coughlan, S.J. et al. Purification of membrane-bound ferredoxin: NADP+ oxidoreductase and of plastocyanin from a detergent extract of washed thylakoids. Photosynth Res 12, 273–281 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00055127
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