Evolution of an assembly factor-based subunit contributed to a novel NDH-PSI supercomplex formation in chloroplasts

Yoshinobu Kato, Masaki Odahara and Toshiharu Shikanai ()
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Yoshinobu Kato: Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
Masaki Odahara: Biomacromolecules Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
Toshiharu Shikanai: Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University

Nature Communications, 2021, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: Abstract Chloroplast NADH dehydrogenase-like (NDH) complex is structurally related to mitochondrial Complex I and forms a supercomplex with two copies of Photosystem I (the NDH-PSI supercomplex) via linker proteins Lhca5 and Lhca6. The latter was acquired relatively recently in a common ancestor of angiosperms. Here we show that NDH-dependent Cyclic Electron Flow 5 (NDF5) is an NDH assembly factor in Arabidopsis. NDF5 initiates the assembly of NDH subunits (PnsB2 and PnsB3) and Lhca6, suggesting that they form a contact site with Lhca6. Our analysis of the NDF5 ortholog in Physcomitrella and angiosperm genomes reveals the subunit PnsB2 to be newly acquired via tandem gene duplication of NDF5 at some point in the evolution of angiosperms. Another Lhca6 contact subunit, PnsB3, has evolved from a protein unrelated to NDH. The structure of the largest photosynthetic electron transport chain complex has become more complicated by acquiring novel subunits and supercomplex formation with PSI.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24065-0

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