Membranes of Rhodospirillum rubrum: physicochemical properties of chromatophore fractions isolated from osmotically and mechanically disrupted cells.
AUTOR(ES)
Collins, M L
RESUMO
Isolation of highly purified membrane fractions from phototrophically grown Rhodospirillum rubrum was achieved by velocity and isopyknic sedimentation under carefully controlled ionic conditions. Bacteriochlorophyll-rich and succinic dehydrogenase-rich chromatophores that were essentially devoid of contamination by non-chromatophore protein were separated from a denser fraction in extracts disrupted in a French pressure cell. Highly purified chromatophores and a nearly photopigment-free envelope fraction were also obtained from cells lysed by treatment with ethylenediaminetetraacetate-lysozyme-Brij 58. After lysis with lysozyme and ethylenediaminetetraacetate alone, about 50% of the total photosynthetic pigment was released in chromatophores similar to those isolated by the above procedures. Chromatophores prepared by each method were found to have very similar near-infrared absorption spectra, overall chemical composition, equilibrium buoyant densities in CsCl, and protein patterns in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The protein profiles of the dense, outer membrane-rich fractions were different from those of the chromatophores. The release of much of the photosynthetic apparatus as discrete chromatophores is osmotically lysed extracts necessitates a reevaluation of the concept that isolated chromatophores arise only from mechanical comminution of a larger membrane structure.
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