scholarly journals Growth Condition-Dependent Sensitivity, Photodamage and Stress Response of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Exposed to High Light Conditions

2006 ◽  
Vol 47 (8) ◽  
pp. 1135-1145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beat B. Fischer ◽  
Manuela Wiesendanger ◽  
Rik I. L. Eggen
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Chazaux ◽  
Stefano Caffarri ◽  
Juliane Da Graça ◽  
Stephan Cuiné ◽  
Magali Floriani ◽  
...  

AbstractPhotosynthetic organisms require acclimation mechanisms to regulate photosynthesis in response to light conditions. Here, two mutant alleles of ACCLIMATION OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS TO THE ENVIRONMENT 1 (ape1) have been characterized in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. The ape1 mutants are photosensitive and show PSII photoinhibition during high light acclimation or under high light stress. The ape1 mutants retain more PSII super-complexes and have changes to thylakoid stacking relative to control strains during photosynthetic growth at different light intensities. The APE1 protein is found in all oxygenic phototrophs and encodes a 25 kDa thylakoid protein that interacts with the Photosystem II core complex as monomers, dimers and supercomplexes. We propose a model where APE1 bound to PSII supercomplexes releases core complexes and promotes PSII heterogeneity influencing the stacking of Chlamydomonas thylakoids. APE1 is a regulator in light acclimation and its function is to reduce over-excitation of PSII centres and avoid PSII photoinhibition to increase the resilience of photosynthesis to high light.


HortScience ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 541a-541
Author(s):  
Lailiang Cheng ◽  
Leslie H. Fuchigami ◽  
Patrick J. Breen

Bench-grafted Fuji/M26 apple trees were fertigated with different concentrations of nitrogen by using a modified Hoagland solution for 6 weeks, resulting in a range of leaf N from 1.0 to 4.3 g·m–2. Over this range, leaf absorptance increased curvilinearly from 75% to 92.5%. Under high light conditions (1500 (mol·m–2·s–1), the amount of absorbed light in excess of that required to saturate CO2 assimilation decreased with increasing leaf N. Chlorophyll fluorescence measurements revealed that the maximum photosystem II (PSII) efficiency of dark-adapted leaves was relatively constant over the leaf N range except for a slight drop at the lower end. As leaf N increased, non-photochemical quenching under high light declined and there was a corresponding increase in the efficiency with which the absorbed photons were delivered to open PSII centers. Photochemical quenching coefficient decreased significantly at the lower end of the leaf N range. Actual PSII efficiency increased curvilinearly with increasing leaf N, and was highly correlated with light-saturated CO2 assimilation. The fraction of absorbed light potentially used for free radical formation was estimated to be about 10% regardless of the leaf N status. It was concluded that increased thermal dissipation protected leaves from photo-oxidation as leaf N declined.


1986 ◽  
Vol 41 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 597-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aloysius Wild ◽  
Matthias Höpfner ◽  
Wolfgang Rühle ◽  
Michael Richter

The effect of different growth light intensities (60 W·m-2, 6 W·m-2) on the performance of the photosynthetic apparatus of mustard plants (Sinapis alba L.) was studied. A distinct decrease in photosystem II content per chlorophyll under low-light conditions compared to high-light conditions was found. For P-680 as well as for Oᴀ and Oв protein the molar ratio between high-light and low-light plants was 1.4 whereas the respective concentrations per chlorophyll showed some variations for P-680 and Oᴀ on the one and Oв protein on the other hand.In addition to the study of photosystem II components, the concentrations of PQ, Cyt f, and P-700 were measured. The light regime during growth had no effect on the amount of P-700 per chlorophyll but there were large differences with respect to PQ and Cyt f. The molar ratio for Cyt f and PQ between high- and low-light leaves was 2.2 and 1.9, respectively.Two models are proposed, showing the functional organization of the pigment system and the electron transport chain in thylakoids of high-light and low-light leaves of mustard plants.


BMC Genomics ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Mastrobuoni ◽  
Susann Irgang ◽  
Matthias Pietzke ◽  
Heike E Aßmus ◽  
Markus Wenzel ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (24) ◽  
pp. 5693-5704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriella M. Weiss ◽  
Eva Y. Pfannerstill ◽  
Stefan Schouten ◽  
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté ◽  
Marcel T. J. van der Meer

Abstract. Over the last decade, hydrogen isotopes of long-chain alkenones have been shown to be a promising proxy for reconstructing paleo sea surface salinity due to a strong hydrogen isotope fractionation response to salinity across different environmental conditions. However, to date, the decoupling of the effects of alkalinity and salinity, parameters that co-vary in the surface ocean, on hydrogen isotope fractionation of alkenones has not been assessed. Furthermore, as the alkenone-producing haptophyte, Emiliania huxleyi, is known to grow in large blooms under high light intensities, the effect of salinity on hydrogen isotope fractionation under these high irradiances is important to constrain before using δDC37 to reconstruct paleosalinity. Batch cultures of the marine haptophyte E. huxleyi strain CCMP 1516 were grown to investigate the hydrogen isotope fractionation response to salinity at high light intensity and independently assess the effects of salinity and alkalinity under low-light conditions. Our results suggest that alkalinity does not significantly influence hydrogen isotope fractionation of alkenones, but salinity does have a strong effect. Additionally, no significant difference was observed between the fractionation responses to salinity recorded in alkenones grown under both high- and low-light conditions. Comparison with previous studies suggests that the fractionation response to salinity in culture is similar under different environmental conditions, strengthening the use of hydrogen isotope fractionation as a paleosalinity proxy.


2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 617-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. VIRTANEN ◽  
D. VALEV ◽  
O. KRUSE ◽  
L. WOBBE ◽  
E. TYYSTJARVI

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Liu ◽  
Wojciech J Nawrocki ◽  
Roberta Croce

Non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) is the process that protects photosynthetic organisms from photodamage by dissipating the energy absorbed in excess as heat. In the model green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, NPQ was abolished in the knock-out mutants of the pigment-protein complexes LHCSR3 and LHCBM1. However, while LHCSR3 was shown to be a pH sensor and switching to a quenched conformation at low pH, the role of LHCBM1 in NPQ has not been elucidated yet. In this work, we combine biochemical and physiological measurements to study short-term high light acclimation of npq5, the mutant lacking LHCBM1. We show that while in low light in the absence of this complex, the antenna size of PSII is smaller than in its presence, this effect is marginal in high light, implying that a reduction of the antenna is not responsible for the low NPQ. We also show that the mutant expresses LHCSR3 at the WT level in high light, indicating that the absence of this complex is also not the reason. Finally, NPQ remains low in the mutant even when the pH is artificially lowered to values that can switch LHCSR3 to the quenched conformation. It is concluded that both LHCSR3 and LHCBM1 need to be present for the induction of NPQ and that LHCBM1 is the interacting partner of LHCSR3. This interaction can either enhance the quenching capacity of LHCSR3 or connect this complex with the PSII supercomplex.


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