Features of protein−protein interactions in the cyanobacterial photoprotection mechanism
- Authors: Sluchanko N.N.1,2, Slonimskiy Y.B.1,3, Maksimov E.G.2
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Affiliations:
- Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Federal Research Center “Fundamentals of Biotechnology”
- Faculty of Biology, Biophysics Department
- Faculty of Biology, Biochemistry Department
- Issue: Vol 82, No 13 (2017)
- Pages: 1592-1614
- Section: Review
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0006-2979/article/view/151549
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S000629791713003X
- ID: 151549
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Abstract
Photoprotective mechanisms of cyanobacteria are characterized by several features associated with the structure of their water-soluble antenna complexes–the phycobilisomes (PBs). During energy transfer from PBs to chlorophyll of photosystem reaction centers, the “energy funnel” principle is realized, which regulates energy flux due to the specialized interaction of the PBs core with a quenching molecule capable of effectively dissipating electron excitation energy into heat. The role of the quencher is performed by ketocarotenoid within the photoactive orange carotenoid protein (OCP), which is also a sensor for light flux. At a high level of insolation, OCP is reversibly photoactivated, and this is accompanied by a sig- nificant change in its structure and spectral characteristics. Such conformational changes open the possibility for pro- tein–protein interactions between OCP and the PBs core (i.e., activation of photoprotection mechanisms) or the fluores- cence recovery protein. Even though OCP was discovered in 1981, little was known about the conformation of its active form until recently, as well as about the properties of homologs of its N and C domains. Studies carried out during recent years have made a breakthrough in understanding of the structural-functional organization of OCP and have enabled discovery of new aspects of the regulation of photoprotection processes in cyanobacteria. This review focuses on aspects of protein–pro- tein interactions between the main participants of photoprotection reactions and on certain properties of representatives of newly discovered families of OCP homologs.
About the authors
N. N. Sluchanko
Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Federal Research Center “Fundamentals of Biotechnology”; Faculty of Biology, Biophysics Department
Author for correspondence.
Email: nikolai.sluchanko@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119071; Moscow, 119991
Y. B. Slonimskiy
Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Federal Research Center “Fundamentals of Biotechnology”; Faculty of Biology, Biochemistry Department
Email: nikolai.sluchanko@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119071; Moscow, 119991
E. G. Maksimov
Faculty of Biology, Biophysics Department
Email: nikolai.sluchanko@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119991
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