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In-vivo quantification of electron flow through photosystem I - Cyclic electron transport makes up about 35% in a cyanobacterium

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DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2020.148353

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Photosynthesis; Linear electron transport; Quantum yield; Cyanobacteria; Carbohydrate breakdown; Hydrogen turnover; EPR

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  1. German Ministry of Science and Education (BMBF) [FP03 09]
  2. German Science Foundation (DFG) [GU1522/2-1]

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This study presents a new method that allows quantification of electron flow through photosystem I in a photosynthetic organism in absolute terms. By specific in-vivo protocols, the redox states of various components in PSI were discerned, and the validity of the method was confirmed using parallel electron counting experiments. The study suggests that the contribution of cyclic electron transport is twice as high as assumed for plants.
Photosynthetic electron flow, driven by photosystem I and II, provides chemical energy for carbon fixation. In addition to a linear mode a second cyclic route exists, which only involves photosystem I. The exact contributions of linear and cyclic transport are still a matter of debate. Here, we describe the development of a method that allows quantification of electron flow in absolute terms through photosystem I in a photosynthetic organism for the first time. Specific in-vivo protocols allowed to discern the redox states of plastocyanin, P700 and the FeS-clusters including ferredoxin at the acceptor site of PSI in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 with the near-infrared spectrometer Dual-KLAS/NIR. P700 absorbance changes determined with the Dual-KLAS/NIR correlated linearly with direct determinations of PSI concentrations using EPR. Dark-interval relaxation kinetics measurements (DIRKPSI) were applied to determine electron flow through PSI. Counting electrons from hydrogen oxidation as electron donor to photosystem I in parallel to DIRKPSI measurements confirmed the validity of the method. Electron flow determination by classical PSI yield measurements overestimates electron flow at low light intensities and saturates earlier compared to DIRKPSI. Combination of DIRKPSI with oxygen evolution measurements yielded a proportion of 35% of surplus electrons passing PSI compared to PSII. We attribute these electrons to cyclic electron transport, which is twice as high as assumed for plants. Counting electrons flowing through the photosystems allowed determination of the number of quanta required for photosynthesis to 11 per oxygen produced, which is close to published values.

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