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- * Photosystem I psaA and psaB proteins signature *
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- Photosystem I (PSI) [1] is an integral membrane protein complex that uses
- light energy to mediate electron transfer from plastocyanin to ferredoxin. PSI
- is found in the chloroplast of plants and cyanobacteria. The electron
- transfer components of the reaction center of PSI are a primary electron
- donor P-700 (chlorophyll dimer) and five electron acceptors: A0 (chlorophyll),
- A1 (a phylloquinone) and three 4Fe-4S iron-sulfur centers: Fx, Fa, and Fb.
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- PsaA and psaB, two closely related proteins, are involved in the binding of
- P700, A0, A1, and Fx. psaA and psaB are both integral membrane proteins of
- 730 to 750 amino acids that seem to contain 11 transmembrane segments. The Fx
- 4Fe-4S iron-sulfur center is bound by four cysteines; two of these cysteines
- are provided by the psaA protein and the two others by psaB. The two cysteines
- in both proteins are proximal and located in a loop between the ninth and
- tenth transmembrane segments. A leucine zipper motif seems to be present [2]
- downstream of the cysteines and could contribute to dimerization of psaA/psaB.
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- The signature pattern for these proteins is based on the perfectly conserved
- region that includes the two iron-sulfur binding cysteines.
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- -Consensus pattern: C-D-G-P-G-R-G-G-T-C
- [The two C's bind the iron-sulfur center]
- -Sequences known to belong to this class detected by the pattern: ALL.
- -Other sequence(s) detected in SWISS-PROT: NONE.
- -Last update: November 1990 / First entry.
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- [ 1] Golbeck J.H.
- Biochim. Biophys. Acta 895:167-204(1987).
- [ 2] Webber A.N., Malkin R.
- FEBS Lett. 264:1-14(1990).
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