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Architecture of the photosynthetic complex from a green sulfur bacterium

Published:2020-11-20 Issue:6519 Volume:370 Page:
ISSN:0036-8075
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Author:

Chen Jing-Hua¹²^ORCID,Wu Hangjun¹²,Xu Caihuang¹^ORCID,Liu Xiao-Chi³,Huang Zihui¹,Chang Shenghai¹²^ORCID,Wang Wenda³^ORCID,Han Guangye³^ORCID,Kuang Tingyun³^ORCID,Shen Jian-Ren³⁴^ORCID,Zhang Xing¹²⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Pathology of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital and Department of Biophysics, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058 Zhejiang, China.

2. Center of Cryo-Electron Microscopy, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058 Zhejiang, China.

3. Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100093 Beijing, China.

4. Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 700-8530 Okayama, Japan.

5. Zhejiang Laboratory for System and Precision Medicine, Zhejiang University Medical Center, 1369 West Wenyi Road, Hangzhou, 311121 Zhejiang, China.

Abstract

Green to the core Light from the Sun powers most life on today's Earth in some way. The core of the photosynthetic apparatus where charge separation occurs, the reaction center (RC), is thought to have originated a single time and diverged, yielding new kinds of complexes adapted to different tasks and environments. Chen et al. now present an important missing puzzle piece in our understanding of the evolution of RCs: a cryo–electron microscopy structure of the homodimeric type I RC from a green sulfur bacterium bound to a light-harvesting protein. The observed cofactor and pigment arrangement explain biochemical features of this RC and will aid in our understanding of how a single ancestral RC gave rise to the range of structures and functions seen in RCs today. Science , this issue p. eabb6350

Funder

National Basic Research Program of China

Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

National Key Research and Development Program of China Stem Cell and Translational Research

Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province, China

Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences

Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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