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sp. PCC 6803 possesses only one gene, , encoding iron superoxide dismutase (FeSOD). It could not be knocked out completely by direct insertion of the kanamycin resistance cassette. When the promoter of in WT was replaced with the copper-regulated promoter P, a completely segregated P strain could be obtained. When this strain was cultured in copper-starved BG11 medium, the chlorophyll content was greatly reduced, growth was seriously inhibited and the strain was nearly dead during the 8 days of growth, whilst the WT strain grew well under the same growth conditions. These results indicated that was essential for photoautotrophic growth of . The reduction of gene copies in the genome rendered the cells more sensitive to oxidative stress produced by methyl viologen and norflurazon. still could not be knocked out completely after active expression of (encoding Cu/ZnSOD) from sp. CC9311 in the neutral site under the control of the promoter, which means the function of FeSOD could not be complemented completely by Cu/ZnSOD. Heterogeneously expressed increased the oxidation and photoinhibition tolerance of the knockdown mutant. Membrane fractionation followed by immunoblotting revealed that FeSOD was localized in the cytoplasm, and Cu/ZnSOD was localized in the soluble and thylakoid membrane fractions of the transformed . Cu/ZnSOD has a predicted N-terminal signal peptide, so it is probably a lumen protein. The different subcellular localization of these two SODs may have resulted in the failure of substitution of for

Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (Award 30970212)
  • Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (Award NCET-08-0786)
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