Mckew, BA and Lefebvre, SC and Achterberg, EP and Metodieva, G and Raines, CA and Metodiev, MV and Geider, RJ (2013) Plasticity in the proteome of Emiliania huxleyi CCMP 1516 to extremes of light is highly targeted. New Phytologist, 200 (1). pp. 61-73. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.12352
Mckew, BA and Lefebvre, SC and Achterberg, EP and Metodieva, G and Raines, CA and Metodiev, MV and Geider, RJ (2013) Plasticity in the proteome of Emiliania huxleyi CCMP 1516 to extremes of light is highly targeted. New Phytologist, 200 (1). pp. 61-73. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.12352
Mckew, BA and Lefebvre, SC and Achterberg, EP and Metodieva, G and Raines, CA and Metodiev, MV and Geider, RJ (2013) Plasticity in the proteome of Emiliania huxleyi CCMP 1516 to extremes of light is highly targeted. New Phytologist, 200 (1). pp. 61-73. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.12352
Abstract
<jats:title>Summary</jats:title><jats:p> <jats:list list-type="bullet"> <jats:list-item><jats:p>Optimality principles are often applied in theoretical studies of microalgal ecophysiology to predict changes in allocation of resources to different metabolic pathways, and optimal acclimation is likely to involve changes in the proteome, which typically accounts for > 50% of cellular nitrogen (N).</jats:p></jats:list-item> <jats:list-item><jats:p>We tested the hypothesis that acclimation of the microalga <jats:italic>Emiliania huxleyi </jats:italic><jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">CCMP</jats:styled-content> 1516 to suboptimal vs supraoptimal light involves large changes in the proteome as cells rebalance the capacities to absorb light, fix <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">CO</jats:styled-content><jats:sub>2</jats:sub>, perform biosynthesis and resist photooxidative stress.</jats:p></jats:list-item> <jats:list-item><jats:p><jats:italic>Emiliania huxleyi</jats:italic> was grown in nutrient‐replete continuous culture at 30 (<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">LL</jats:styled-content>) and 1000 μmol photons m<jats:sup>−2</jats:sup> s<jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> (<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">HL</jats:styled-content>), and changes in the proteome were assessed by <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">LC</jats:styled-content>‐<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">MS</jats:styled-content>/<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">MS</jats:styled-content> shotgun proteomics. Changes were most evident in proteins involved in the light reactions of photosynthesis; the relative abundance of photosystem I (<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">PSI</jats:styled-content>) and <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">PSII</jats:styled-content> proteins was 70% greater in <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">LL</jats:styled-content>, light‐harvesting fucoxanthin–chlorophyll proteins (Lhcfs) were up to 500% greater in <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">LL</jats:styled-content> and photoprotective <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">LI</jats:styled-content>818 proteins were 300% greater in <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">HL</jats:styled-content>.</jats:p></jats:list-item> <jats:list-item><jats:p>The marked changes in the abundances of Lhcfs and <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">LI</jats:styled-content>818s, together with the limited plasticity in the bulk of the <jats:italic>E. huxleyi</jats:italic> proteome, probably reflect evolutionary pressures to provide energy to maintain metabolic capabilities in stochastic light environments encountered by this species in nature.</jats:p></jats:list-item> </jats:list> </jats:p>
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Emiliania huxleyi; high light; LI818; light acclimation; light harvesting; low light; shotgun proteomics |
Subjects: | Q Science > QR Microbiology |
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: | 01 Jul 2013 09:07 |
Last Modified: | 07 Aug 2024 19:36 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7021 |