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PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 57, Issue 7, Pages 1443-1453Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcv198
Keywords
Electron transport; Flavodiiron protein; Oxygen; Q cycle; Photosynthesis; RISE
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [21570041]
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology in Japan [22114512]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22114512] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Accumulation of electrons under conditions of environmental stress produces a reduced state in the photosynthetic electron transport (PET) system and causes the reduction of O-2 by PSI in the thylakoid membranes to produce the reactive oxygen species superoxide radical, which irreversibly inactivates PSI. This study aims to elucidate the molecular mechanism for the oxidation of reaction center Chl of PSI, P700, after saturated pulse (SP) light illumination of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 under steady-state photosynthetic conditions. Both P700 and NADPH were transiently oxidized after SP light illumination under CO2-depleted photosynthesis conditions. In contrast, the Chl fluorescence intensity transiently increased. Compared with the wild type, the increase in Chl fluorescence and the oxidations of P700 and NADPH were greatly enhanced in a mutant (Delta flv1/3) deficient in the genes encoding FLAVODIIRON 1 (FLV1) and FLV3 proteins even under high photosynthetic conditions. Furthermore, oxidation of Cyt f was also observed in the mutant. After SP light illumination, a transient suppression of O-2 evolution was also observed in Delta flv1/3. From these observations, we propose that the reduction in the plastquinone (PQ) pool suppresses linear electron flow at the Cyt b(6)/f complex, which we call the reduction-induced suppression of electron flow (RISE) in the PET system. The accumulation of the reduced form of PQ probably suppresses turnover of the Q cycle in the Cyt b(6)/f complex.
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