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J Biol Chem, Vol. 273, Issue 27, 17154-17165, July 3, 1998

In Vitro Reconstitution of the Recombinant Photosystem II Light-harvesting Complex CP24 and Its Spectroscopic Characterization

From the Università di Verona-Facoltà di Scienze MM.FF.NN. Strada le Grazie, 37134 Verona, Italy

The light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b protein CP24, a minor subunit of the photosystem II antenna system, is a major violaxanthin-binding protein involved in the regulation of excited state concentration of chlorophyll a. This subunit is poorly characterized due to the difficulty in isolation and instability during purification procedures. We have used an alternative approach in order to gain information on the properties of this protein; the Lhcb6 cDNA has been overexpressed in bacteria in order to obtain the CP24 apoprotein, which was then reconstituted in vitro with xanthophylls, chlorophyll a, and chlorophyll b, yielding a pigment-protein complex with properties essentially identical to the native protein extracted from maize thylakoids. Although all carotenoids were supplied during refolding, the recombinant holoprotein exhibited high selectivity in xanthophyll binding by coordinating violaxanthin and lutein but not neoxanthin or -carotene. Each monomer bound a total of 10 chlorophyll a plus chlorophyll b and two xanthophyll molecules. Moreover, the protein could be refolded in the presence of different chlorophyll a to chlorophyll b ratios for yielding a family of recombinant proteins with different chlorophyll a/b ratios but still binding the same total number of porphyrins. A peculiar feature of CP24 was its refolding capability in the absence of lutein, contrary to the case of other homologous proteins, thus showing higher plasticity in xanthophyll binding. These characteristics of CP24 are discussed with respect to its role in binding zeaxanthin in high light stress conditions.

The spectroscopic analysis of a recombinant CP24 complex binding eight chlorophyll b molecules and a single chlorophyll a molecule by Gaussian deconvolution allowed the identification of four subbands peaking at wavelengths of 638, 645, 653, and 659 nm, which have an increased amplitude with respect to the native complex and therefore identify the chlorophyll b absorption in the antenna protein environment. Gaussian subbands at wavelengths 666, 673, 679, and 686 nm are depleted in the high chlorophyll b complex, thus suggesting they derive from chlorophyll a.

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