Caspari, Oliver D and Meyer, Moritz T and Tolleter, Dimitri and Wittkopp, Tyler M and Cunniffe, Nik J and Lawson, Tracy and Grossman, Arthur R and Griffiths, Howard (2017) Pyrenoid loss in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii causes limitations in CO2 supply, but not thylakoid operating efficiency. Journal of Experimental Botany, 68 (14). pp. 3903-3913. DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erx197
Caspari, Oliver D and Meyer, Moritz T and Tolleter, Dimitri and Wittkopp, Tyler M and Cunniffe, Nik J and Lawson, Tracy and Grossman, Arthur R and Griffiths, Howard (2017) Pyrenoid loss in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii causes limitations in CO2 supply, but not thylakoid operating efficiency. Journal of Experimental Botany, 68 (14). pp. 3903-3913. DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erx197
Caspari, Oliver D and Meyer, Moritz T and Tolleter, Dimitri and Wittkopp, Tyler M and Cunniffe, Nik J and Lawson, Tracy and Grossman, Arthur R and Griffiths, Howard (2017) Pyrenoid loss in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii causes limitations in CO2 supply, but not thylakoid operating efficiency. Journal of Experimental Botany, 68 (14). pp. 3903-3913. DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erx197
Abstract
The pyrenoid of the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a microcompartment situated in the centre of the cup-shaped chloroplast, containing up to 90% of cellular Rubisco. Traversed by a network of dense, knotted thylakoid tubules, the pyrenoid has been proposed to influence thylakoid biogenesis and ultrastructure. Mutants that are unable to assemble a pyrenoid matrix, due to expressing a vascular plant version of the Rubisco small subunit, exhibit severe growth and photosynthetic defects and have an ineffective carbon-concentrating mechanism (CCM). The present study set out to determine the cause of photosynthetic limitation in these pyrenoid-less lines. We tested whether electron transport and light use were compromised as a direct structural consequence of pyrenoid loss or as a metabolic effect downstream of lower CCM activity and resulting CO2 limitation. Thylakoid organization was unchanged in the mutants, including the retention of intrapyrenoid-type thylakoid tubules, and photosynthetic limitations associated with the absence of the pyrenoid were rescued by exposing cells to elevated CO2 levels. These results demonstrate that Rubisco aggregation in the pyrenoid functions as an essential element for CO2 delivery as part of the CCM, and does not play other roles in maintenance of photosynthetic membrane energetics.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Carbon-concentrating mechanism, Chlamydomonas, reinhardtii, chlorophyll fluorescence, chloroplast, electrochromic shift, electron transport rate, green algae, photosynthesis, pyrenoid, Rubisco |
Subjects: | Q Science > QK Botany |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Life Sciences, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jul 2018 14:40 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 17:25 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/22722 |
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