Inhibition and promotion by light of the accumulation of translatable mRNA of the light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-binding protein of photosystem II |
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Authors: | R Oelmüller C Schuster |
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Institution: | (1) Biologisches Institut II der Universität, Schänzlestraße 1, D-7800 Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany |
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Abstract: | The amount of in-vitro translatable mRNA of the light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-binding protein (LHCP) of photosystem II strongly increases in darkness (D) after a 5-min red-light pulse while continuous illumination of mustard seedlings with far-red (FR), red or white light leads only to a slight increase in the amount of translatable LHCP-mRNA. No increase can be observed after a long-wavelength FR (RG9-light) pulse. However, a FR pretreatment prior to the RG9-light pulse strongly increase LHCP-mRNA accumulation in subsequent D. This is not observed in the case of the mRNA for the small subunit of ribulose-1.5-bisphosphate carboxylase. The increase of LHCP-mRNA in D after a FR pretreatment can be inhibited by a reillumination of the seedlings with FR. The inhibition of LHCP-mRNA accumulation during continuous illumination with FR and the strong increase in D following a FR illumination was found to be independent of chlorophyll biosynthesis since no correlation between chlorophyll biosynthesis and translatable LHCP-mRNA levels could be detected. Even strong changes in the amount of intermediates of chlorophyll biosynthesis caused by application of levulinic acid or 5-aminolevulinic acid did not affect LHCP-mRNA levels. Therefore, we conclude that the appearance of LHCP-mRNA is inhibited during continuous illumination, even though illumination leads to a storage of a light singal which promotes accumulation of translatable LHCP-mRNA in D.Abbreviations c
continuous
- Chl
chlorophyll
- D
darkness
- FR
far-red light (3.5 W·m-2)
- LHCP
light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-binding protein of photosystem II
- NF
Norfluration
- PChl
protochlorophyll(ide)
- Pfr
far-red absorbing form of phytochrome
- Ptot
total phytochrome
- R
red light (6.8 W·m-2)
- RG9-light
long-wavelength FR (10 W·m-2)
- SSU
small subunit of ribulose-1.5-bisphosphate carboxylase
- WL
white light
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Pfr/Ptot=wavelength-dependent photoequilibrium of the phytochrome system |
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Keywords: | Chlorophyll (gene expression) Gene expression and light Light and gene expression Light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-binding protein Phytochrome Ribulose-1 5-bisphosphate carboxylase Sinapis (light mRNA) |
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