Journal
PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR
Volume 10, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2015.1076602
Keywords
high light; land plants; Photosystem II; photoinhibition; PSII damage; PSII repair cycle; thylakoid membranes
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- US. National Science Foundation Arabidopsis Project [MCB-0519740, MCB-124400]
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1244008] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Photosystem II (PSII) is highly susceptible to photoinhibition caused by environmental stimuli such as high light; therefore plants have evolved multifaceted mechanisms to efficiently protect PSII from photodamage. We previously published data suggesting that Maintenance of PSII under High light 1 (MPH1, encoded by AT5G07020), a PSII-associated proline-rich protein found in land plants, participates in the maintenance of normal PSII activity under photoinhibitory stress. Here we provide additional evidence for the role of MPH1 in protecting PSII against photooxidative damage. Two Arabidopsis thaliana mutants lacking a functional MPH1 gene suffer from severe photoinhibition relative to the wild-type plants under high irradiance light. The mph1 mutants exhibit significantly decreased PSII quantum yield and electron transport rate after exposure to photoinhibitory light. The mutants also display drastically elevated photodamage to PSII reaction center proteins after high-light treatment. These data add further evidence that MPH1 is involved in PSII photoprotection in Arabidopsis. MPH1 homologs are found across phylogenetically diverse land plants but are not detected in algae or prokaryotes. Taken together, these results suggest that MPH1 protein began to play a role in protecting PSII against excess light following the transition from aquatic to terrestrial conditions.
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