Reply to: Is the debate over grana stacking formation finally solved?
Reply to: Is the debate over grana stacking formation finally solved?
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10.1038/s41477-021-00881-6
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2021-03
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F. Müh;B. van Oort;Sujith Puthiyaveetil;H. Kirchhoff
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作者:
F. Müh;B. van Oort;Sujith Puthiyaveetil;H. Kirchhoff
MATTERS ARISING NATURE PLANTS the stroma. As a consequence, we can count one negative charge less per LHCII-trimer. In this way, we re-evaluated the net charges on the stromal side of grana-hosted, multi-subunit complexes (see Supplementary Table 1). Note that this re-evaluation is not exhaustive, since not all complexes could yet be simulated. Nonetheless, the data give a first estimate of the decrease in the magnitude of the surface charge density due to pKa shifts of protein-bound groups. The effect is indeed significant: the surface charge density is changed from σ=− 0.0389 cm− 2 in the SPS (no phosphorylation) to σ=− 0.0259 cm− 2 for the non-standard protonation states (Supplementary Table 2). We recalculated the repulsive electrostatic force Fel using a refined numerical algorithm (see Supplementary Information for details).The net force between the thylakoid membranes across the stromal gap is given by F= FvdW+ Fel+Fhydro, where the hydrostructural force is calculated according to Fhydro= 1010e− d/0.193 Nm− 2, as before 4. Figure 1 shows the net force at 200 mM KCl and 5 mM MgCl2 in the stromal gap as a function of the membrane separation distance. It is noteworthy that even with the smaller Hamaker coefficients, force balance (zero crossing) can be achieved for the original surface charge density without protein phosphorylation 4 (Fig. 1a),