Summary
Photosystem II (PS II) has a complex arrangement of membrane spanning and soluble subunits responsible for its unique role in oxygenic photosynthesis. Advances in several areas of biology have contributed significantly to our understanding of individual subunits and the PS II complex as a whole. In recent years, the genome sequences of several plants and many cyanobacteria have been completed allowing for comparisons of their genes. This information, along with previous biochemical evidence, has strengthened the conclusion that the PS II protein components are highly conserved, from the primitive cyanobacterium Gloeobacter violaceus PCC 7421 to the vascular plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Advances in purification of PS II samples and protein identification have confirmed the presence of several novel proteins and provide new tools for the analysis of PS II in various mutants and under different growth conditions. Recent structural studies have also contributed tremendously to our understanding of the organization of PS II subunits and cofactors. The combination of genomic, proteomic, and structural studies will continue to be a source of new insights into the assembly, regulation and function of PS II. This chapter highlights the contributions of such studies to our understanding of the numerous low molecular weight PS II components.
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Thornton, L.E., Roose, J.L., Pakrasi, H.B., Ikeuchi, M. (2005). The Low Molecular Weight Proteins of Photosystem II. In: Wydrzynski, T.J., Satoh, K., Freeman, J.A. (eds) Photosystem II. Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4254-X_7
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