Chlorophyll-Binding Proteins of Higher Plants and Cyanobacteria
Chlorophyll-Binding Proteins of Higher Plants and Cyanobacteria
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10.1007/978-94-007-1579-0_6
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2012-01-01
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Croce, Roberta
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本章着重于高等植物和蓝藻的叶绿素结合复合物的结构方面和组织。我们已经包括了对蛋白质和发色团的讨论，特别注意不同生物体和蛋白质家族不同成员中类似系统的比较。在过去的几年里，光合机构的许多组成部分的结构已经可以在高分辨率和中等分辨率下获得;在生物体中比较这些系统，这些系统被十亿年的进化分开，允许识别光合机构的构建模块。而且，不同生物体内复合物之间的差异主要与生物体对特定环境条件的适应有关。这些结构的出现也使我们能够在一个“视觉框架”中组织过去20年来通过遗传、生物化学和生物物理方法获得的大量信息，这代表了功能研究的一个新的起点。
This chapter focuses on the structural aspects and the organization of the chlorophyll-binding complexes of higher plants and cyanobacteria. We have included a discussion of both the proteins and the chromophores, with particular attention to the comparison of similar systems in different organisms and different members of a protein family. In the last few years the structures of many components of the photosynthetic apparatus have become available at high and intermediate resolution; comparison of these systems in organisms which are separated by a billion years of evolution has allowed the identification of the building blocks of the photosynthetic apparatus. Moreover, the differences between the complexes in different organisms are mainly related to the adaptation of the organism to specific environmental conditions. The appearance of the structures has also allowed us to organize in a "visual framework" the large amount of information obtained during the last 20 years by genetic, biochemical and biophysical methods and this represents now a new starting point for functional studies.