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JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY
Volume 209, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2020.111950
Keywords
Blue light; Carotenoid; Photo-acclimation; Photosynthesis; Red light
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [17K07945]
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology [S1311014, JP16H06552, JP16H06553]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [17K07945] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Carotenoids are essential components of photosynthetic organisms including land plants, algae, cyanobacteria, and photosynthetic bacteria. Although the light-mediated regulation of carotenoid biosynthesis, including the light/dark cycle as well as the dependence of carotenoid biosynthesis-related gene translation on light wavelength, has been investigated in land plants, these aspects have not been studied in microalgae. Here, we investigated carotenoid biosynthesis in Euglena gracilis and found that zeaxanthin accumulates in the dark. The major carotenoid species in E. gracilis, namely beta-carotene, neoxanthin, diadinoxanthin and diatoxanthin, accumulated corresponding to the duration of light irradiation under the light/dark cycle, although the translation of carotenoid biosynthesis genes hardly changed. Irradiation with either blue or red-light (3 mu mol photons m(-2) s(-1)) caused a 1.3-fold increase in beta-carotene content compared with the dark control. Blue-light irradiation (300 mnol photons m(-2) S-1) caused an increase in the cellular content of both zeaxanthin and all trans-diatoxanthin, and this increase was proportional to blue-light intensity. In addition, pre-irradiation with blue-light of 3 or 30 mnol photons m(-2) S-1 enhanced the photosynthetic activity and tolerance to high-light stress. These findings suggest that the accumulation of beta-carotene is regulated by the intensity of light, which may contribute to the acclimation of E. gracilis to the light environment in day night conditions.
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