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PLANT BIOLOGY
Volume 7, Issue 4, Pages 342-347Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-837710
Keywords
acridine dyes; carbon concentrating mechanism (ccm); carboxysome; cyanobacteria; fluorescence analysis; Rubisco
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Disruption of the ccmM gene in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 causes a deficiency of carboxysomes and impairs growth in ambient CO2. The effect of this gene defect on cellular metabolism was investigated using electron microscopy, biochemical and fluorescence analysis. Mutant cells were devoid of the characteristic dense polyhedral bodies called carboxysomes. The photosynthetic oxygen evolution was considerably lower in mutant cells compared to wild type, while Rubisco activity in cell extracts was similar. During photosynthetic CO2-dependent oxygen evolution, Rubisco, V-max dropped from 142 micromol mg(-1) chlorophyll h(-1) (WT) to 77 micromol mg(-1) chlorophyll h(-1) in the mutant cells, and the K-m for Ci (inorganic carbon) increased from 0.5 mM (WT) to 40 mM. The fluorescent indicator, acridine yellow, was used for non-invasive measurements of cytoplasmic pH changes in whole cells induced by addition of Ci, making use of the decrease in fluorescence yield that accompanies cytoplasmic acidification. The experimental results indicate that control of the cytoplasmic pH is linked to the internal carbon pool (Ci). Both wild-type and ccmM-deficient cells showed a linear response of acridine yellow fluorescence quenching and, thus, of internal acidification, with respect to externally added inorganic carbon. However, the fluorescence analysis of mutant (carboxysome-free) cells indicated slower kinetics of Ci accumulation.
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