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Iron-stress induced protein A (IsiA) is a chlorophyll-binding membrane-spanning protein in photosynthetic prokaryote cyanobacteria, and is associated with photosystem I (PSI) trimer cores, but its structural and functional significance in light harvesting remains unclear. Here we report a 2.7-Å resolution cryo-electron microscopic structure of a supercomplex between PSI core trimer and IsiA from a thermophilic cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus vulcanus. The structure showed that 18 IsiA subunits form a closed ring surrounding a PSI trimer core. Detailed arrangement of pigments within the supercomplex, as well as molecular interactions between PSI and IsiA and among IsiAs, were resolved. Time-resolved fluorescence spectra of the PSI-IsiA supercomplex showed clear excitation-energy transfer from IsiA to PSI, strongly indicating that IsiA functions as an energy donor, but not an energy quencher, in the supercomplex. These structural and spectroscopic findings provide important insights into the excitation-energy-transfer and subunit assembly mechanisms in the PSI-IsiA supercomplex.
Organizational Affiliation: 
Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan. fusamichi_a@okayama-u.ac.jp.
Japan Science and Technology Agency, PRESTO, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan. fusamichi_a@okayama-u.ac.jp.
Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan.
Nippon Flour Mills Co., Ltd., Innovation Center, Kanagawa, 243-0041, Japan.
Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan.
Biomolecular Characterization Unit, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan.
Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan. shen@okayama-u.ac.jp.
Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan. akimoto@hawk.kobe-u.ac.jp.
Life Science Center for Survival Dynamics, Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance (TARA), University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8577, Japan. naomiyazaki@tara.tsukuba.ac.jp.
Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan. naomiyazaki@tara.tsukuba.ac.jp.