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Mechanism of downregulation of photosystem I content under high-light conditions in the cyanobacterium sp. PCC 6803 Free

Abstract

Downregulation of photosystem I (PSI) content is an essential process for cyanobacteria to grow under high-light (HL) conditions. In a (sll1968) mutant of sp. PCC 6803, the levels of PSI content, chlorophyll and transcripts of the genes encoding reaction-centre subunits of PSI could not be maintained low during HL incubation, although the causal relationship among these phenotypes remains unknown. In this study, we modulated the activity of transcription or that of chlorophyll synthesis to estimate their contribution to the regulation of PSI content under HL conditions. Analysis of the -OX strain, in which the genes were overexpressed under HL conditions, revealed that the amount of transcript could not affect PSI content by itself. Suppression of chlorophyll synthesis by an inhibitor, laevulinic acid, in the mutant revealed that chlorophyll availability could be a determinant of PSI content under HL. It was also suggested that chlorophyll content under HL conditions is mainly regulated at the level of 5-aminolaevulinic acid synthesis. We conclude that, upon the shift to HL conditions, activities of transcription and of 5-aminolaevulinic acid synthesis are strictly downregulated by regulatory mechanism(s) independent of PmgA during the first 6 h, and then a PmgA-mediated regulatory mechanism becomes active after 6 h onward of HL incubation to maintain these activities at a low level.

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Keyword(s): ALA, 5-aminolaevulinic acid , HL, high light , LA, laevulinic acid , LL, low light , PS, photosystem and WT, wild-type
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Mechanism of downregulation of photosystem I content under high-light conditions in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Microbiology 155, 989 (2009); https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.024018-0
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