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. 1978 Dec;62(6):856–860. doi: 10.1104/pp.62.6.856

Spectral Characterization of Five Chlorophyll-Protein Complexes 1

Fernando Henriques 1, Roderic B Park 1
PMCID: PMC1092241  PMID: 16660625

Abstract

Sodium dodecyl sulfate-solubilized chloroplast internal membranes of higher plants (cowpea [Vigna unguiculata L. Walp], chinese cabbage [Brassica chinensi L.], and tobacco [Nicotiana tabacum L.]) are resolved by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis into two chlorophyll a- and three chlorophyll a,b-proteins. A small portion (about 15%) of the membrane chlorophyll migrates as a component of high electrophoretic mobility and presumably consists of detergent-complexed, protein-free pigment.

One of the chlorophyll a-proteins is qualitatively similar to the P700 chlorophyll a-protein but contains a much larger proportion of total chlorophyll (about 30%) than previously reported. The second chlorophyll a-protein is a recently discovered component of the membrane and accounts for about 7% of the total chlorophyll. The absorption and fluorescence emission spectra of these two chlorophyll a-proteins differ.

The three chlorophyll a,b-proteins are components of the chloroplast membrane chlorophyll a,b-light-harvesting complex which was previously resolved as a single chlorophyll-protein band. The two additional chlorophyll a,b-proteins observed in our work probably represent larger aggregates contained within that membrane complex which are preserved under the solubilization and electrophoretic conditions used here.

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