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Abstract
The gene encoding subunit IV of the cytochrome b6/f complex (petD) has been isolated from a genomic library of the unicellular cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. The coding region consists of 480 nucleotides and can code for a polypeptide with a molecular weight of 17.5 kDa. The deduced amino acid sequence shows high identity with the corresponding sequences of both the photoautotrophic prokaryote Nostoc sp. PCC 7906 as well as of lower and higher photoautotrophic eukaryotes (e.g. Chlorella prototecoides, Nicotiana tabacum). Transformation of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 with a plasmid containing the cloned petD gene in which the coding sequence is interrupted by the aminoglycoside 3'-phosphotransferase gene (aph) from Tn903 resulted in the formation of km resistant transformants. The molecular analysis of independent transformants revealed that all clones were merodiploid containing both uninterrupted wild-type as well as interrupted mutant petD copies. Approaches to segregate these two genomes were unsuccessful implying an essential function of the petD gene product in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
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