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Cloning, nucleotide sequence and mutational analysis of the gene encoding the Photosystem II manganese-stabilizing polypeptide of Synechocystis 6803

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Affinity purified, polyclonal antibodies raised against the Photosystem II 33 kDa manganese-stabilizing polypeptide of the spinach oxygen-evolving complex were used to isolate the gene encoding the homologous protein from Synechocystis 6803. Comparison of the amino acid sequence deduced from the Synechocystis psb1 nucleotide sequence with recently published sequences of spinach and pea confirms the homology indicated by antigenic crossreactivity and shows that the cyanobacterial and higher plant sequences are 43% identical and 63% conserved. Regions of identity, varying in length from 1 to 10 consecutive residues, are distributed throughout the protein. The 28 residues at the amino terminus of the psb1 gene product, characteristic of prokaryotic signal peptides, show homology with the carboxyl-terminal third of the transit sequences of pea and spinach and are most likely needed for the transport of the manganese-stabilizing protein across the thylakoid membrane to its destination of the lumen. Synechocystis mutants which contain a kanamycin resistance gene cassette inserted into the coding region for the 32 kDa polypeptide were constructed. These mutants contain no detectable 32 kDa polypeptide, do not evolve oxygen, and are incapable of photoautotrophic growth.

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Philbrick, J.B., Zilinskas, B.A. Cloning, nucleotide sequence and mutational analysis of the gene encoding the Photosystem II manganese-stabilizing polypeptide of Synechocystis 6803. Mol Gen Genet 212, 418–425 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00330845

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