Subunit Q is required to stabilize the large complex of NADPH dehydrogenase in synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 68031

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Two major complexes of NADPH dehydrogenase (NDH-1) have been identified in cyanobacteria. A large complex (NDH-1L) contains NdhD1, NdhF1, and NdhP, which are absent in a medium size complex (NDH-1M). They play important roles in respiration, NDH-1-dependent cyclic electron transport around photosystem I, and CO2 uptake. Two mutants sensitive to high light for growth and impaired in cyclic electron transport around photosystem I were isolated from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 transformed with a transposon-bearing library. Both mutants had a tag in an open reading frame encoding a product highly homologous to NdhQ, a single-transmembrane small subunit of the NDH-1L complex, identified in Thermosynechococcus elongatus by proteomics strategy. Deletion of ndhQ disassembled about one-half of the NDH-1L to NDH-1M and consequently impaired respiration, but not CO2 uptake. During prolonged incubation of the thylakoid membrane with n-dodecyl-b-D-maltoside at room temperature, the rest of the NDH-1L in DndhQ was disassembled completely to NDH-1M and was much faster than in the wild type. In the ndhP-deletion mutant (DndhP) background, absence of NdhQ almost completely disassembled the NDH-1L to NDH-1M, similar to the results observed in the DndhD1/DndhD2 mutant.We therefore conclude that both NdhQ and NdhP are essential to stabilize the NDH-1L complex

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Zhao, J., Rong, W., Gao, F., Ogawa, T., & Ma, W. (2015). Subunit Q is required to stabilize the large complex of NADPH dehydrogenase in synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 68031. Plant Physiology, 168(2), 443–451. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.15.00503

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