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JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY
Volume 45, Issue 5, Pages 1062-1071Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2009.00732.x
Keywords
growth; nickel; photosynthesis; picophytoplankton; superoxide dismutase; Synechococcus
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Quebec Merit Fellowship Program
- New Century Excellent Talents in University [NCET-08-0786]
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Synechococcus species are important primary producers in coastal and open-ocean ecosystems. When nitrate was provided as the sole nitrogen source, nickel starvation inhibited the growth of strains WH8102 and WH7803, while it had little effect on two euryhaline strains, WH5701 and PCC 7002. Nickel was required for the acclimation of Synechococcus WH7803 to low iron and high light. In WH8102 and WH7803, nickel starvation decreased the linear electron transport activity, slowed down Q(A) reoxidation, but increased the connectivity factor between individual photosynthetic units. Under such conditions, the reduction of their intersystem electron transport chains was expected to increase, and their cyclic electron transport around PSI would be favored. Nickel starvation decreased the total superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity of WH8102 and WH7803 by 30% and 15% of the control, respectively. The protein-bound (63)Ni of the oceanic strain WH8102 comigrated with SOD activity on nondenaturing gels and thus provided additional evidence for the existence of active NiSOD in Synechococcus WH8102. In WH7803, it seems likely that nickel starvation affected other metabolic pathways and thus indirectly affected the total SOD activity.
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