A Simple Preparation Method for Phytochromobilin

Lu, Lu; Zhao, Bao-Qing; Miao, Dan; Ding, Wen-Long; Zhou, Ming; Scheer, Hugo und Zhao, Kai-Hong (2017): A Simple Preparation Method for Phytochromobilin. In: Photochemistry and Photobiology, Bd. 93, Nr. 3: S. 675-680

Abstract

Phytochromobilin (P Phi B), the chromophore of plant phytochromes, is difficult to isolate because phytochromes occur at very low concentrations in plants. It is, therefore, frequently replaced in plant phytochrome studies by phycocyanobilin, which is abundant in cyanobacteria. P Phi B is also an attractive chromophore for far-red emitting chromoproteins. In this work, we design and optimize a simple method to efficiently isolate useful quantities of P Phi B: The chromophore is generated in Escherichiacoli and transiently bound to a tailored chromophore-binding domain of ApcE2, the apo-protein of a core-membrane linker, from which it can subsequently be released. The ease and effectiveness of this method hinges not only on the enhanced biosynthesis of P Phi B in the presence of the ApcE2 construct from Synechococcus sp. PCC7335, but also on the noncovalent binding of the pigment to its apo-protein. The isolated P Phi B was successfully incorporated into phytochrome-related assemblies, and furthermore, the noncovalently bound P Phi B could be transferred directly from the ApcE2 construct to the apo-proteins of phytochromes, cyanobacteriochromes and phycobiliproteins, without loss of relevant biological activity.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Biologie > Department Biologie I
• Themengebiete: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
• ISSN: 0031-8655
• Sprache: Englisch