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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY
卷 213, 期 21, 页码 3644-3655出版社
COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.040881
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acclimation; dinoflagellate; fluorescence; GFP; light; photoprotection; Symbiodinium; symbiosis
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- National Science Foundation
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research Biomimetics, Biomaterials, and Biointerfacial Sciences [FA9550-07-1-0027]
- Department of Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Reef-building corals inhabit high light environments and are dependent on photosynthetic endosymbiotic dinoflagellates for nutrition. While photoacclimation responses of the dinoflagellates to changes in illumination are well understood, host photoacclimation strategies are poorly known. This study investigated fluorescent protein expression in the shallow-water coral Acropora yongei during a 30 day laboratory photoacclimation experiment in the context of its dinoflagellate symbionts. Green fluorescent protein (GFP) concentration measured by Western blotting changed reversibly with light intensity. The first 15 days of the photoacclimation experiment led to a similar to 1.6 times increase in GFP concentration for high light corals (900 mu mol quanta m(-2) s(-1)) and a similar to 4 times decrease in GFP concentration for low light corals (30 mu mol quanta m(-2) s(-1)) compared with medium light corals (300 mu mol quanta m(-2) s(-1)). Green fluorescence increased similar to 1.9 times in high light corals and decreased similar to 1.9 times in low light corals compared with medium light corals. GFP concentration and green fluorescence intensity were significantly correlated. Typical photoacclimation responses in the dinoflagellates were observed including changes in density, photosynthetic pigment concentration and photosynthetic efficiency. Although fluorescent proteins are ubiquitous and abundant in scleractinian corals, their functions remain ambiguous. These results suggest that scleractinian corals regulate GFP to modulate the internal light environment and support the hypothesis that GFP has a photoprotective function. The success of photoprotection and photoacclimation strategies, in addition to stress responses, will be critical to the fate of scleractinian corals exposed to climate change and other stressors.
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