Journal
PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH
Volume 145, Issue 3, Pages 189-207Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11120-020-00775-2
Keywords
Photosynthesis; Phycobiliproteins; Allophycocyanin; Phycobilisomes; Far-red light photoacclimation; Low-light photoacclimation
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Funding
- U.S. National Science Foundation [MCB-1613022]
- Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC), an Energy Frontier Research Center - DOE, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC 0001035]
- NIH [P410GM103311]
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Phycobiliproteins (PBPs) are pigment proteins that comprise phycobilisomes (PBS), major light-harvesting antenna complexes of cyanobacteria and red algae. PBS core substructures are made up of allophycocyanins (APs), a subfamily of PBPs. Five paralogous AP subunits are encoded by the Far-Red Light Photoacclimation (FaRLiP) gene cluster, which is transcriptionally activated in cells grown in far-red light (FRL;lambda = 700 to 800 nm). FaRLiP gene expression enables some terrestrial cyanobacteria to remodel their PBS and photosystems and perform oxygenic photosynthesis in far-red light (FRL). Paralogous AP genes encoding a putative, FRL-absorbing AP (FRL-AP) are also found in an operon associated with improved low-light growth (LL; < 50 mu mol photons m(-2) s(-1)) in some thermophilicSynechococcusspp., a phenomenon termed low-light photoacclimation (LoLiP). In this study,apcgenes from FaRLiP and LoLiP gene clusters were heterologously expressed individually and in combinations inEscherichia coli. The resulting novel FRL-APs were characterized and identified as major contributors to the FRL absorbance observed in whole cells after FaRLiP and potentially LoLiP. Post-translational modifications of native FRL-APs from FaRLiP cyanobacterium,Leptolyngbyasp. strain JSC-1, were analyzed by mass spectrometry. The PBP complexes made in two FaRLiP organisms were compared, revealing strain-specific diversity in the FaRLiP responses of cyanobacteria. Through analyses of native and recombinant proteins, we improved our understanding of how different cyanobacterial strains utilize specialized APs to acclimate to FRL and LL. We discuss some insights into structural changes that may allow these APs to absorb longer light wavelengths than their visible-light-absorbing paralogs.
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