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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS
Volume 1605, Issue 1-3, Pages 55-66Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-2728(03)00064-1
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D1 protein; photoinhibition; photosynthesis; Photosystem II; Synechococcus PCC 7942; Synechocystis PCC 6803
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Synechoeystis PCC 6803 mutants expressing either the low light (D1:l) or the high light (131:2) form of the Photosystem 11 (PSII) D I protein from Synechococcus PCC 7942 were constructed and characterized with respect to properties of PSII and sensitivity to visible and UV-B radiation. The AI and AIII mutants (containing only the D1:1 and D1:2 forms, respectively) exhibited very similar PSII characteristics as the control strain and they differed only in the accelerated decay kinetics of flash-induced variable fluorescence measured in the presence of DCMU. However, the mutants showed increased sensitivity to photodamage induced by visible and UV-B radiation, with higher loss of PSII activity in the AI than in the AIII strain. Thus, the difference between strains containing D1:1 and 131:2 found previously in Synechococcus 7942 is maintained after transfer of corresponding psbA genes into Synechocystis 6803 and is directly related to the coding region of these genes. The higher light sensitivity of the AI mutant is caused partly by the higher rate of photodamage and partly by the less efficient PSII repair. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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