The primary electron acceptor of green sulfur bacteria, bacteriochlorophyll 663, is chlorophyll a esterified with Delta2,6-phytadienol - PubMed (original) (raw)

doi: 10.1023/A:1006480629059.

H Oh-Oka, S Akutsu, M Akiyama, K Tominaga, H Kise, F Nishida, T Watanabe, J Amesz, M Koizumi, N Ishida, H Kano

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The primary electron acceptor of green sulfur bacteria, bacteriochlorophyll 663, is chlorophyll a esterified with Delta2,6-phytadienol

M Kobayashi et al. Photosynth Res. 2000.

Abstract

The primary electron acceptor of green sulfur bacteria, bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) 663, was isolated at high purity by an improved purification procedure from a crude reaction center complex, and the molecular structure was determined by fast atom bombardment mass spectroscopy (FAB-mass), (1)H- and (13)C-NMR spectrometry, double quantum filtered correlation spectroscopy (DQF-COSY), heteronuclear multiple-quantum coherence (HMQC) and heteronuclear multiple-bond correlation (HMBC) spectral measurements. BChl 663 was 2.0 mass units smaller than plant Chl a. The NMR spectra showed that the macrocycle was identical to that of Chl a. In the esterifying alcohol, a singlet P7(1) signal was observed at the high-field side of the singlet P3(1) signal in BChl 663, while a doublet peak of P7(1) overlapped that of P11(1) in Chl a. A signal of P7-proton, seen in Chl a, was lacking, and the P6-proton appeared as a triplet signal near the triplet P2-proton signal in BChl 663. These results indicate the presence in BChl 663 of a C=C double bond between P6 and P7 in addition to that between P2 and P3. The structure of BChl 663 was hence concluded to be Chl a esterified with 2,6-phytadienol instead of phytol. In addition to BChl 663, two molecules of the 13(2)-epimer of BChl a, BChl a', were found to be present per reaction center, which may constitute the primary electron donor.

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