Abstract
A simple, rapid procedure suitable for large scale preparation of a lipid deficient cytochrome b6-f complex from spinach chloroplasts has been developed. The procedure involves solubilization with a mixture of sodium cholate and octylglucoside, ammonium sulfate fractionation and calcium phosphate column chromatography. The purified complex contains, in nanomoles per milligram protein, 20.6 cytochrome b, 10.8 cytochrome f and 54 phospholipids. The purified complex has little plastoquinol-cytochrome c reductase activity in the absence of added lipid. Full reductase activity was reconstituted by the addition of plastoquinone prior to the addition of lipid.
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