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Structure and Physiological Function of NDH-1 Complexes in Cyanobacteria

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Bioenergetic Processes of Cyanobacteria

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The metabolic flexibility of cyanobacteria has enabled them to survive and flourish under a wide range of environmental conditions. In particular their ability to perform oxygenic photosynthesis and respiration within the same cell has allowed them to generate ATP from diverse energy sources. While great strides have been made in understanding the molecular details of the photosynthetic apparatus in cyanobacteria, much less is known about the protein complexes involved in respiration. Here we review our current knowledge of cyanobacterial NDH-1 complexes. which are related to the type-I NADH dehydrogenase (NADH:quinone oxidoreductase) found in mitochondria and in other types of bacteria. The picture that is emerging from a combination of molecular biology, biochemistry, proteomics and structural biology is that cyanobacteria synthesize different types of NDH-1 complex depending on the physiological needs of the cell, and that cyanobacterial NDH-1 complexes play important physiological roles not only in respiration but also in cyclic electron flow around Photosystem I in the light and in the uptake of CO2 into the cell. These differences in function are reflected by differences in the subunit composition of the different types of NDH-1 complex. The subunit compositions of the cyanobacterial NDH-1 complexes and the closely related Ndh (or NDH) complex in chloroplasts suggest that they form a separate sub-class of the complex I family of enzymes. However, there are important differences between the NDH-1 class of complexes in chloroplasts and cyanobacteria, which appear to reflect adaptations that have occurred since their evolutionary divergence.

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PJN is grateful to the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council for financial support. EMA acknowledges the Academy of Finland (Project No. 118637), the EU project Solar-H2 (FP7 contract no 212508), Nordic Energy and the Maj and Tor Nessling Foundation for support of research.

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Battchikova, N., Aro, EM., Nixon, P.J. (2011). Structure and Physiological Function of NDH-1 Complexes in Cyanobacteria. In: Peschek, G., Obinger, C., Renger, G. (eds) Bioenergetic Processes of Cyanobacteria. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0388-9_16

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