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JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 171, Issue 5, Pages 42-48Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH, URBAN & FISCHER VERLAG
DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2013.11.008
Keywords
Light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b complexes; Conformation; Chlorophyll triplet; Lutein; Mutagenesis
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- State Key Basic Research and Development Plan of China [2011CBA00904]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31070212, 31370275]
- Research Council of Norway [191102]
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Under strong light conditions, long-lived chlorophyll triplets ((3)Chls) are formed, which can sensitize singlet oxygen, a species harmful to the photosynthetic apparatus of plants. Plants have developed multiple photoprotective mechanisms to quench (3)Chl and scavenge singlet oxygen in order to sustain the photosynthetic activities. The lumenal loop of light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b complex of photosystem II (LHCII) plays important roles in regulating the pigment conformation and energy dissipation. In this study, site-directed mutagenesis analysis was applied to investigate triplet-triplet energy transfer and quenching of (3)Chl in LHCII. We mutated the amino acid at site 123 located in this region to Gly, Pro, Gln, Thr and Tyr, respectively, and recorded fluorescence excitation spectra, triplet-minus-singlet (TmS) spectra and kinetics of carotenoid triplet decay for wild type and all the mutants. A red-shift was evident in the TmS spectra of the mutants S123T and S123P, and all of the mutants except S123Y showed a decrease in the triplet energy transfer efficiency. We propose, on the basis of the available structural information, that these phenomena are related to the involvement, due to conformational changes in the lumenal region, of a long-wavelength lutein (Lut2) involved in quenching (3)Chl. (C) 2013 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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