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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 99, Issue 20, Pages 12789-12794Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.182427499
Keywords
violaxanthin depoxidase; photoinhibition; xanthophyll cycle; proton motive force; chemiosmotic coupling
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Nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ) of excitation energy, which protects higher plant photosynthetic machinery from photodamage, is triggered by acidification of the thylakoid lumen as a result of light-induced proton pumping, which also drives the synthesis of ATP. It is clear that the sensitivity of NPQ is modulated in response to changing physiological conditions, but the mechanism for this modulation has remained unclear. Evidence is presented that, in intact tobacco or Arabidopsis leaves, NPQ modulation in response to changing CO2 levels occurs predominantly by alterations in the conductivity of the CF0-CF1 ATP synthase to protons (g(H)(+)). At a given proton flux, decreasing gH+ will increase transthylakoid proton motive force (pmf), thus lowering lumen pH and contributing to the activation of NPQ. It was found that an approximate to5-fold decrease in g(H)(+) could account for the majority of NPQ modulation as atmospheric CO2 was decreased from 2,000 ppm to 0 ppm. Data are presented that g(H)(+) is kinetically controlled, rather than imposed thermodynamically by buildup of DeltaG(ATP). Further results suggest that the redox state of the ATP synthase gamma-subunit thiols is not responsible for altering g(H)(+). A working model is proposed wherein g(H)(+) is modulated by stromal metabolite levels, possibly by inorganic phosphate.
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