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Photosystem II (PSII) catalyzes the light-driven oxidation of water and the reduction of plastoquinone; the oxidation of water occurs at a cluster of four manganese. The PSII CP43 subunit functions in light harvesting, and mutations in the fifth luminal loop (E) of CP43 have established its importance in PSII structure and/or assembly [Kuhn, M. G. &amp; Vermaas, V. F. J. (1993) Plant Mol. Biol. 23, 123-133]. The sequence A(350)PWLEPLR(357) in luminal loop E is conserved in CP43 genes from 50 organisms. To map important posttranslational modifications in this sequence, tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) was used. These data show that the indole side chain of Trp-352 is posttranslationally modified to give mass shifts of +4, +16, and +18 daltons. The masses of the modifications suggest that the tryptophan is modified to kynurenine (+4), a keto-/amino-/hydroxy- (+16) derivative, and a dihydro-hydroxy- (+18) derivative of the indole side chain. Peptide synthesis and MS/MS confirmed the kynurenine assignment. The +16 and +18 tryptophan modifications may be intermediates formed during the oxidative cleavage of the indole ring to give kynurenine. The site-directed mutations, W352C, W352L, and W352A, exhibit an increased rate of photoinhibition relative to wild type. We hypothesize that Trp-352 oxidative modifications are a byproduct of PSII water-splitting or electron transfer reactions and that these modifications target PSII for turnover. As a step toward understanding the tertiary structure of this CP43 peptide, structural modeling was performed by using molecular dynamics.

Posttranslational modifications in the CP43 subunit of photosystem II