ZZE-Configuration of chromophore ß-153 in C-phycocyanin from Mastigocladus laminosus

Schmidt, G., Siebzehnrübl, S., Fischer, R., Rüdiger, W., Scheer, Hugo, Schirmer, T., Bode, W. and Huber, R. (1987): ZZE-Configuration of chromophore ß-153 in C-phycocyanin from Mastigocladus laminosus. In: Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C, Vol. 42c: pp. 845-848

Abstract

The photochemistry of C-phycocyanin has been studied after denaturation in the dark. It shows an irreversible reaction which has characteristics of a Ζ,Ζ,Ε- to Z,Z,Z-isomerization of dihydrobilins. Its amplitude depends on the reaction conditions, with a maximum corresponding to 15% conversion of one of the three PC chromophores. This chromophore is suggested to be ß-153, for which recent X-ray data T. Schirmer, W. Bode, and R. Huber, J. Mol. Biol., submitted, show ring D being highly twisted out of the plane of the other rings. During unfolding, there is thus a probability of falling into the photochemically labile Z,Z,^-configuration.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Biology
• Subjects: 500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology
• ISSN: 0341-0382, 0341-0471, 0939-5075
• Signature: 2 Bcher BSB:4 Z 46.13-42,c,1/5 und BSB:4 Z 46.13-42,c,6/12
• Language: English