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Cyanobacterial NADPH dehydrogenase complexes

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Cyanobacteria possess functionally distinct multiple NADPH dehydrogenase (NDH-1) complexes that are essential to CO2 uptake, photosystem-1 cyclic electron transport and respiration. The unique nature of cyanobacterial NDH-1 complexes is the presence of subunits involved in CO2 uptake. Other than CO2 uptake, chloroplastic NDH-1 complex has a similar role as cyanobacterial NDH-1 complexes in photosystem-1 cyclic electron transport and respiration (chlororespiration). In this mini-review we focus on the structure and function of cyanobacterial NDH-1 complexes and their phylogeny. The function of chloroplastic NDH-1 complex and characteristics of plants defective in NDH-1 are also described for comparison.

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Abbreviations

NDH-1,:

NAD(P)H dehydrogenase

PQ:

Plastoqunone

PS:

Photosystem

WT:

Wild type

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This work was partially supported by grants to HM from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30470151 and No. 90306013) and in part supported by a grant to TO by the Membrane Biology EMSL Scientific Grand Challenge Project at the W. R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a national scientific user facility sponsored by the US Department of Energy Office of Biological and Environmental Research program located at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is operated for the Department of Energy by Battelle.

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Ogawa, T., Mi, H. Cyanobacterial NADPH dehydrogenase complexes. Photosynth Res 93, 69–77 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-006-9128-y

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