In situ high-resolution structure of the baseplate antenna complex in Chlorobaculum tepidum

Jakob Toudahl Nielsen; Natalia V. Kulminskaya; Morten Bjerring; Juha M Linnanto; Margus Rätsep; Marie Østergaard Pedersen; Petar H. Lambrev; Márta Dorogi; Győző Garab; Karen Thomsen; Caroline Jegerschöld; Niels-Ulrik Frigaard; Martin Lindahl; Niels Chr. Nielsen

doi:10.1038/ncomms12454

In situ high-resolution structure of the baseplate antenna complex in Chlorobaculum tepidum

Jakob Toudahl Nielsen, Natalia V. Kulminskaya, Morten Bjerring, Juha M Linnanto, Margus Rätsep, Marie Østergaard Pedersen, Petar H. Lambrev, Márta Dorogi, Győző Garab, Karen Thomsen, Caroline Jegerschöld, Niels-Ulrik Frigaard, Martin Lindahl, Niels Chr. Nielsen

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Photosynthetic antenna systems enable organisms harvesting light and transfer the energy to the photosynthetic reaction centre, where the conversion to chemical energy takes place. One of the most complex antenna systems, the chlorosome, found in the photosynthetic green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum (Cba.) tepidum contains a baseplate, which is a scaffolding super-structure, formed by the protein CsmA and bacteriochlorophyll a. Here we present the first high-resolution structure of the CsmA baseplate using intact fully functional, light-harvesting organelles from Cba. tepidum, following a hybrid approach combining five complementary methods: solid-state NMR spectroscopy, cryo-electron microscopy, isotropic and anisotropic circular dichroism and linear dichroism. The structure calculation was facilitated through development of new software, GASyCS for efficient geometry optimization of highly symmetric oligomeric structures. We show that the baseplate is composed of rods of repeated dimers of the strongly amphipathic CsmA with pigments sandwiched within the dimer at the hydrophobic side of the helix.

Original language	English
Article number	12454
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	7
Number of pages	12
ISSN	2041-1723
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12454
Publication status	Published - 18 Aug 2016

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Nielsen, J. T., Kulminskaya, N. V., Bjerring, M., Linnanto, J. M., Rätsep, M., Pedersen, M. Ø., Lambrev, P. H., Dorogi, M., Garab, G., Thomsen, K., Jegerschöld, C., Frigaard, N.-U., Lindahl, M., & Nielsen, N. C. (2016). In situ high-resolution structure of the baseplate antenna complex in Chlorobaculum tepidum. Nature Communications, 7, Article 12454. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12454

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