Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 23, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms232012138
Keywords
photosystem II; cytochrome c(550); PsbV; electron transfer; iron limitation; pulse-amplitude modulation chlorophyll fluorescence; thermoluminescence; Phaeodactylum tricornutum
Funding
- Spanish Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad (EU FEDER Program) [BIO2015-64169-P]
- Universidad de Sevilla [US-1380339]
- EU FEDER 2014-2020 Program
- Consejeria de Transformacion Economica, Industria, Conocimiento y Universidades de la Junta de Andalucia
- FPU Program fellowship (Spanish Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte)
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In the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum, iron limitation leads to a decrease in the content of photosystem II and subtle changes in the energetics of the recombination reaction. Iron deficiency also reduces the binding of extrinsic subunits PsbV and PsbO to photosystem II. These findings suggest that iron plays a crucial role in the function and protein binding of photosystem II.
In the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum, iron limitation promotes a decrease in the content of photosystem II, as determined by measurements of oxygen-evolving activity, thermoluminescence, chlorophyll fluorescence analyses and protein quantification methods. Thermoluminescence experiments also indicate that iron limitation induces subtle changes in the energetics of the recombination reaction between reduced Q(B) and the S-2/S-3 states of the water-splitting machinery. However, electron transfer from Q(A) to Q(B), involving non-heme iron, seems not to be significantly inhibited. Moreover, iron deficiency promotes a severe decrease in the content of the extrinsic PsbV/cytochrome c(550) subunit of photosystem II, which appears in eukaryotic algae from the red photosynthetic lineage (including diatoms) but is absent in green algae and plants. The decline in the content of cytochrome c(550) under iron-limiting conditions is accompanied by a decrease in the binding of this protein to photosystem II, and also of the extrinsic PsbO subunit. We propose that the lack of cytochrome c(550), induced by iron deficiency, specifically affects the binding of other extrinsic subunits of photosystem II, as previously described in cyanobacterial PsbV mutants.
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