Changes in the cyanobacterial photosynthetic apparatus during acclimation to macronutrient deprivation |
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Authors: | Jackie L Collier Stephen K Herbert David C Fork Arthur R Grossman |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 290 Panama Street, 94305 Stanford, CA, USA;(2) Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, 92093-020 San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA;(3) Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, 83843 Moscow, ID, USA |
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Abstract: | When the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. Strain PCC 7942 is deprived of an essential macronutrient such as nitrogen, sulfur or phosphorus, cellular phycobiliprotein and chlorophyll contents decline. The level of -carotene declines proportionately to chlorophyll, but the level of zeaxanthin increases relative to chlorophyll. In nitrogen- or sulfur-deprived cells there is a net degradation of phycobiliproteins. Otherwise, the declines in cellular pigmentation are due largely to the diluting effect of continued cell division after new pigment synthesis ceases and not to net pigment degradation. There was also a rapid decrease in O2 evolution when Synechococcus sp. Strain PCC 7942 was deprived of macronutrients. The rate of O2 evolution declined by more than 90% in nitrogen- or sulfur-deprived cells, and by approximately 40% in phosphorus-deprived cells. In addition, in all three cases the fluorescence emissions from Photosystem II and its antennae were reduced relative to that of Photosystem I and the remaining phycobilisomes. Furthermore, state transitions were not observed in cells deprived of sulfur or nitrogen and were greatly reduced in cells deprived of phosphorus. Photoacoustic measurements of the energy storage capacity of photosynthesis also showed that Photosystem II activity declined in nutrient-deprived cells. In contrast, energy storage by Photosystem I was unaffected, suggesting that Photosystem I-driven cyclic electron flow persisted in nutrient-deprived cells. These results indicate that in the modified photosynthetic apparatus of nutrient-deprived cells, a much larger fraction of the photosynthetic activity is driven by Photosystem I than in nutrient-replete cells.Abbreviations ES
energy storage
- N
nitrogen
- P
phosphorus
- PBS
phycobilisomes
- S
sulfur |
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Keywords: | cyanobacteria cyclic photophosphorylation nutrient deprivation photoacoustic spectroscopy photoinhibition Photosystem I |
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