The Structure of Cyanop at 2.8A: Implications for the Evolution and Function of the Psbp Subunit of Photosystem II.
Michoux, F., Takasaka, K., Boehm, M., Nixon, P., Murray, J.W.(2010) Biochemistry 49: 7411
- PubMed: 20698571 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/bi1011145
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
2XB3 - PubMed Abstract: 
We present here the crystal structure of CyanoP (Tlr2075) from Thermosynechococcus elongatus at 2.8 A. CyanoP is a substoichiometric component of the isolated cyanobacterial Photosystem II (PSII) complex, distantly related to the PsbP extrinsic subunit of the oxygen-evolving PSII complex in higher plants and green algae. Despite the relatively low degree of sequence similarity, we have found that CyanoP adopts the same beta-sandwich fold as higher-plant PsbP and contains a well-conserved metal (zinc)-binding site that is also present in plant PsbP. Our results support the idea that CyanoP represents the basal structural fold of the PsbP superfamily.
Organizational Affiliation: 
Division of Biology, Wolfson Biochemistry Building, Imperial College London,South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK.