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Structure and Organization of Purple Bacterial Antenna Complexes

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Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria

Part of the book series: Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration ((AIPH,volume 2))

Summary

This chapter presents a comprehensive overview of what is currently known about the structure of purple bacterial antenna complexes, with special emphasis upon modeling their three-dimensional structure and intramembrane organization.

Purple bacterial antenna complexes can be grouped into two major types, the ‘core’ B875-type which forms a close association with the reaction centers and the ‘variable’ B800-850- or B800-820-type. Both these types of complex are constructed on a similar modular principle and are oligomers of α and β-apoproteins. These antenna apoproteins have been sequenced form a range of species and form a rather homologous group of proteins. The light-absorbing pigments, BChl and carotenoids, are non-covalently bound to these apoproteins.

As is described below, in a few cases these antenna complexes have been crystallized and structure determinations are under way. However, in the absence of three-dimensional structural information a great deal can be deduced by a comparison of their primary structures. The main part of this chapter illustrates the type of models for antenna structure that can be constructed by a detailed analysis of the conserved structural elements which can be seen by such an examination of the database of antenna apoprotein primary structures.

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Zuber, H., Cogdell, R.J. (1995). Structure and Organization of Purple Bacterial Antenna Complexes. In: Blankenship, R.E., Madigan, M.T., Bauer, C.E. (eds) Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria. Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47954-0_16

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