Abstract
We describe a genetically engineered strain of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii where the PsbH subunit of Photosystem II (PSII) has been modified to include a C-terminal polyhistidine tag. The strain was generated by the rescue to photoautotrophic growth of a psbH insertional mutant following chloroplast transformation with the modified gene. This selection strategy confirms that the addition of the tag to PsbH does not prevent the assembly of functional PSII, and results in an engineered strain with tagged PSII but no antibiotic-resistance markers in the chloroplast genome. Consequently, the strain is suitable for subsequent genetic manipulation of chloroplast PSII genes. We also describe a rapid PSII isolation procedure that gives a preparation capable of high rates of oxygen evolution. This preparation is suitable for spectroscopic analysis as shown by EPR analysis of the S2 state of the water oxidation cycle. Furthermore, electron microscopy, coupled to single particle analysis, has revealed the isolated PSII to be structurally homogeneous core dimers that are ideally suited for higher resolution structural studies.
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