Characterization of reaction centers from photosynthetic bacteria. II. Amino acid composition of the reaction center protein and its subunits in Rhodopseudomonas spheroides R-26.
Characterization of reaction centers from photosynthetic bacteria. II. Amino acid composition of the reaction center protein and its subunits in Rhodopseudomonas spheroides R-26.
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光合细菌反应中心的表征。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00704a014
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发表时间:
1974
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
G. Feher
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作者:
L. Steiner;M. Okamura;A. D. Lopes;E. Moskowitz;G. Feher
Materials and MethodsPreparation of Reaction Centers. The preparation of re-action centers from R. spheroides R-26 and R. rubrumG-9 is described in the accompanying paper (Okamura et al., 1974). Reaction centers containing either radiolabeled half-cystine or tryptophan were obtained from bacteria grown in modified Hutner medium without yeast extract, peptone, or glutamate, but including either 100 gCi of L-[3sS] cystine/l.(Schwarz/Mann, sp act. 25 mCi/mmol) plus 200 mg of L-methionine/1. or 200 pd of dl-[14C] tryptophan/l.(International Chemicaland Nuclear Corp., ring-2 labeled, sp act. 3 mCi/mmol). In each case, the other amino acids were included at a concentration of 10mg/l. Preparative Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis in Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate. The procedure for preparative gel electrophoresis was essentially the same as that for analytical gel electrophoresis, discussed in the preceding paper, except that the load per gel was about 50 pg. After electrophoresis the gels were marked with a reference bristle and scanned at 280 nm. Sections corresponding to the protein bands were excised from 20 gels with a taut wire and template and macerated in a volume of buffer (50 mM Tris-Cl (pH 8.0)-0.1% sodium dodecyl sulfate) equal to 1.5 times the volume of the gel slices. The macerated gel sections were then placed into electrophoresis tubes (12 X 0.8 cm) sealed at the bottom with a 0.5 cm long plug of 10% polyacrylamide supported with a nylon net. The tubes were placed into concentric cylinders (2x2 cm) that were sealed at one end with a dialysis mem-brane and that containedthe same buffer solution. The protein was eluted electrophoretically into these cylinders (15 mA/gel for 4 hr) and concentrated by vacuum dialysis in collodion bags (Schleicherand Schuell). The purity of the separated