A 36 kDa polypeptide which previously was shown to be present in purified photosystem II complexes from Synechococcus PCC 6301 and which crossreacts with the antiserum raised against the soluble L-amino acid oxidase of 50 kDa from Synechococcus PCC 6301 (A. E. Gau, G. Wälzlein, S. Gärtner, M. Kuhlmann, and E. K. Pistorius, Z. Naturforsch. 44c, 971, 1989), was isolated from thylakoid membranes of the same cyanobacterium grown under mild iron deficiency. This peptide is present in about equal amounts in thylakoid membranes of Synechococcus PCC 6301 grown under regular or iron deficient conditions. The antiserum raised against this thylakoid membrane bound 36 kDa peptide crossreacts with the soluble L-amino acid oxidase of 50 kDa. These results further support our conclusion that the thylakoid membrane bound 36 kDa polypeptide is a modified form of the soluble 50 kDa L-amino acid oxidase. In addition, a 34 kD a polypeptide was isolated from iron stressed thylakoid membranes, and an antiserum was also raised against this protein. Immunoblot experiments with this antiserum show that the 34 kDa peptide is present in elevated amounts in thylakoid membranes from Synechococcus cells grown under iron deficiency and that it is alm ost absent in thylakoid membranes from cells grown under regular conditions
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