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1.
Nat Methods ; 20(12): 1930-1938, 2023 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37996751

RESUMO

Despite the need for quantitative measurements of light intensity across many scientific disciplines, existing technologies for measuring light dose at the sample of a fluorescence microscope cannot simultaneously retrieve light intensity along with spatial distribution over a wide range of wavelengths and intensities. To address this limitation, we developed two rapid and straightforward protocols that use organic dyes and fluorescent proteins as actinometers. The first protocol relies on molecular systems whose fluorescence intensity decays and/or rises in a monoexponential fashion when constant light is applied. The second protocol relies on a broad-absorbing photochemically inert fluorophore to back-calculate the light intensity from one wavelength to another. As a demonstration of their use, the protocols are applied to quantitatively characterize the spatial distribution of light of various fluorescence imaging systems, and to calibrate illumination of commercially available instruments and light sources.


Assuntos
Corantes Fluorescentes , Fluorescência , Microscopia de Fluorescência/métodos , Corantes Fluorescentes/química , Espectrometria de Fluorescência
2.
Plant Cell Environ ; 47(6): 2240-2257, 2024 Jun.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38482712

RESUMO

Plants have evolved multiple regulatory mechanisms to cope with natural light fluctuations. The interplay between these mechanisms leads presumably to the resilience of plants in diverse light patterns. We investigated the energy-dependent nonphotochemical quenching (qE) and cyclic electron transports (CET) in light that oscillated with a 60-s period with three different amplitudes. The photosystem I (PSI) and photosystem II (PSII) function-related quantum yields and redox changes of plastocyanin and ferredoxin were measured in Arabidopsis thaliana wild types and mutants with partial defects in qE or CET. The decrease in quantum yield of qE due to the lack of either PsbS- or violaxanthin de-epoxidase was compensated by an increase in the quantum yield of the constitutive nonphotochemical quenching. The mutant lacking NAD(P)H dehydrogenase (NDH)-like-dependent CET had a transient significant PSI acceptor side limitation during the light rising phase under high amplitude of light oscillations. The mutant lacking PGR5/PGRL1-CET restricted electron flows and failed to induce effective photosynthesis control, regardless of oscillation amplitudes. This suggests that PGR5/PGRL1-CET is important for the regulation of PSI function in various amplitudes of light oscillation, while NDH-like-CET acts' as a safety valve under fluctuating light with high amplitude. The results also bespeak interplays among multiple photosynthetic regulatory mechanisms.


Assuntos
Proteínas de Arabidopsis , Arabidopsis , Luz , Proteínas de Membrana , Fotossíntese , Complexo de Proteína do Fotossistema I , Complexo de Proteína do Fotossistema II , Fotossíntese/fisiologia , Fotossíntese/efeitos da radiação , Arabidopsis/fisiologia , Arabidopsis/genética , Arabidopsis/efeitos da radiação , Arabidopsis/metabolismo , Complexo de Proteína do Fotossistema I/metabolismo , Complexo de Proteína do Fotossistema II/metabolismo , Transporte de Elétrons , Proteínas de Arabidopsis/metabolismo , Proteínas de Arabidopsis/genética , Ferredoxinas/metabolismo , Mutação , Oxirredução , Plastocianina/metabolismo , Complexo de Proteínas do Centro de Reação Fotossintética/metabolismo , Complexo de Proteínas do Centro de Reação Fotossintética/genética
3.
New Phytol ; 239(5): 1869-1886, 2023 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37429324

RESUMO

In natural environments, plants are exposed to rapidly changing light. Maintaining photosynthetic efficiency while avoiding photodamage requires equally rapid regulation of photoprotective mechanisms. We asked what the operation frequency range of regulation is in which plants can efficiently respond to varying light. Chlorophyll fluorescence, P700, plastocyanin, and ferredoxin responses of wild-types Arabidopsis thaliana were measured in oscillating light of various frequencies. We also investigated the npq1 mutant lacking violaxanthin de-epoxidase, the npq4 mutant lacking PsbS protein, and the mutants crr2-2, and pgrl1ab impaired in different pathways of the cyclic electron transport. The fastest was the PsbS-regulation responding to oscillation periods longer than 10 s. Processes involving violaxanthin de-epoxidase dampened changes in chlorophyll fluorescence in oscillation periods of 2 min or longer. Knocking out the PGR5/PGRL1 pathway strongly reduced variations of all monitored parameters, probably due to congestion in the electron transport. Incapacitating the NDH-like pathway only slightly changed the photosynthetic dynamics. Our observations are consistent with the hypothesis that nonphotochemical quenching in slow light oscillations involves violaxanthin de-epoxidase to produce, presumably, a largely stationary level of zeaxanthin. We interpret the observed dynamics of photosystem I components as being formed in slow light oscillations partially by thylakoid remodeling that modulates the redox rates.


Assuntos
Proteínas de Arabidopsis , Arabidopsis , Complexo de Proteínas do Centro de Reação Fotossintética , Transporte de Elétrons , Complexo de Proteína do Fotossistema II/metabolismo , Luz , Fotossíntese/fisiologia , Arabidopsis/metabolismo , Clorofila/metabolismo , Complexos de Proteínas Captadores de Luz/metabolismo , Mutação/genética , Proteínas de Arabidopsis/genética , Proteínas de Arabidopsis/metabolismo , Complexo de Proteínas do Centro de Reação Fotossintética/genética , Proteínas de Membrana/metabolismo
4.
Photosynth Res ; 157(2-3): 103-118, 2023 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37314664

RESUMO

The galloping rise in global population in recent years and the accompanying increase in food and energy demands has created land use crisis between food and energy production, and eventual loss of agricultural lands to the more lucrative photovoltaics (PV) energy production. This experiment was carried out to investigate the effect of organic photovoltaics (OPV) and red-foil (RF) transmittance on growth, yield, photosynthesis and SPAD value of spinach under greenhouse and field conditions. Three OPV levels (P0: control; P1: transmittance peak of 0.11 in blue light (BL) and 0.64 in red light (RL); P2: transmittance peak of 0.09 in BL and 0.11 in RL) and two spinach genotypes (bufflehead, eland) were combined in a 3 × 2 factorial arrangement in a completely randomized design with 4 replications in the greenhouse, while two RF levels (RF0: control; RF1: transmittance peak of 0.01 in BL and 0.89 in RL) and two spinach genotypes were combined in a 2 × 2 factorial in randomized complete block design with four replications in the field. Data were collected on growth, yield, photosynthesis and chlorophyll content. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) showed significant reduction in shoot weight and total biomass of spinach grown under very low light intensities as a function of the transmittance properties of the OPV cell used (P2). P1 competed comparably (p > 0.05) with control in most growth and yield traits measured. In addition, shoot to root distribution was higher in P1 than control. RF reduced shoot and total biomass production of spinach in the field due to its inability to transmit other spectra of light. OPV-RF transmittance did not affect plant height (PH), leaf number (LN), and SPAD value but leaf area (LA) was highest in P2. Photochemical energy conversion was higher in P1, P2 and RF1 in contrast to control due to lower levels of non-photochemical energy losses through the Y(NO) and Y(NPQ) pathways. Photo-irradiance curves showed that plants grown under reduced light (P2) did not efficiently manage excess light when exposed to high light intensities. Bufflehead genotype showed superior growth and yield traits than eland across OPV and RF levels. It is therefore recommended that OPV cells with transmittance properties greater than or equal to 11% in BL and 64% in RL be used in APV systems for improved photochemical and land use efficiency.


Assuntos
Spinacia oleracea , Clorofila/metabolismo , Genótipo , Fotossíntese/fisiologia , Folhas de Planta/fisiologia , Spinacia oleracea/metabolismo
5.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 117(51): 32722-32730, 2020 12 22.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33293415

RESUMO

Nitrogen (N) is an essential macronutrient for microalgae, influencing their productivity, composition, and growth dynamics. Despite the dramatic consequences of N starvation, many free-living and endosymbiotic microalgae thrive in N-poor and N-fluctuating environments, giving rise to questions about the existence and nature of their long-term N reserves. Our understanding of these processes requires a unequivocal identification of the N reserves in microalgal cells as well as their turnover kinetics and subcellular localization. Herein, we identified crystalline guanine as the enigmatic large-capacity and rapid-turnover N reserve of microalgae. The identification was unambiguously supported by confocal Raman, fluorescence, and analytical transmission electron microscopies as well as stable isotope labeling. We discovered that the storing capacity for crystalline guanine by the marine dinoflagellate Amphidiniumcarterae was sufficient to support N requirements for several new generations. We determined that N reserves were rapidly accumulated from guanine available in the environment as well as biosynthesized from various N-containing nutrients. Storage of exogenic N in the form of crystalline guanine was found broadly distributed across taxonomically distant groups of microalgae from diverse habitats, from freshwater and marine free-living forms to endosymbiotic microalgae of reef-building corals (Acropora millepora, Euphyllia paraancora). We propose that crystalline guanine is the elusive N depot that mitigates the negative consequences of episodic N shortage. Guanine (C5H5N5O) may act similarly to cyanophycin (C10H19N5O5) granules in cyanobacteria. Considering the phytoplankton nitrogen pool size and dynamics, guanine is proposed to be an important storage form participating in the global N cycle.


Assuntos
Guanina/metabolismo , Microalgas/química , Microalgas/metabolismo , Nitrogênio/metabolismo , Animais , Antozoários , Regiões Árticas , Cristalização , Dinoflagellida/química , Dinoflagellida/metabolismo , Ecossistema , Guanina/química , Cinética , Microscopia Eletrônica de Transmissão , Microscopia Óptica não Linear/métodos , Simbiose , Clima Tropical
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Plant Physiol ; 187(2): 646-661, 2021 10 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34608969

RESUMO

Foundations of photosynthesis research have been established mainly by studying the response of plants to changing light, typically to sudden exposure to a constant light intensity after dark acclimation or light flashes. This approach remains valid and powerful, but can be limited by requiring dark acclimation before time-domain measurements and often assumes that rate constants determining the photosynthetic response do not change between dark and light acclimation. We show that these limits can be overcome by measuring plant responses to sinusoidally modulated light of varying frequency. By its nature, such frequency-domain characterization is performed in light-acclimated plants with no need for prior dark acclimation. Amplitudes, phase shifts, and upper harmonic modulation extracted from the data for a wide range of frequencies can target different kinetic domains and regulatory feedbacks. The occurrence of upper harmonic modulation reflects nonlinear phenomena, including photosynthetic regulation. To support these claims, we measured chlorophyll fluorescence emission of the green alga Chlorella sorokiniana in light that was sinusoidally modulated in the frequency range 1000-0.001 Hz. Based on these experimental data and numerical as well as analytical mathematical models, we propose that frequency-domain measurements can become a versatile tool in plant sensing.


Assuntos
Técnicas Biossensoriais , Chlorella/metabolismo , Luz , Fotossíntese
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J Exp Bot ; 73(18): 6380-6393, 2022 10 18.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36036782

RESUMO

Plants growing in nature often experience fluctuating irradiance. However, in the laboratory, the dynamics of photosynthesis are usually explored by instantaneously exposing dark-adapted plants to constant light and examining the dark-to-light transition, which is a poor approximation of natural phenomena. With the aim creating a better approximation, we exposed leaves of pea (Pisum sativum) to oscillating light and measured changes in the functioning of PSI and PSII, and of the proton motive force at the thylakoid membrane. We found that the dynamics depended on the oscillation period, revealing information about the underlying regulatory networks. As demonstrated for a selected oscillation period of 60 s, the regulation tries to keep the reaction centers of PSI and PSII open. We present an evaluation of the data obtained, and discuss the involvement of particular processes in the regulation of photosynthesis. The forced oscillations provided an information-rich fingerprint of complex regulatory networks. We expect future progress in understanding these networks from experiments involving chemical interventions and plant mutants, and by using mathematical modeling and systems identification and control tools.


Assuntos
Complexo de Proteína do Fotossistema II , Pisum sativum , Pisum sativum/metabolismo , Complexo de Proteína do Fotossistema II/metabolismo , Luz , Fotossíntese/fisiologia , Folhas de Planta/metabolismo , Plantas/metabolismo , Complexo de Proteína do Fotossistema I/metabolismo , Transporte de Elétrons/fisiologia
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Biochem J ; 477(13): 2543-2559, 2020 07 17.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32556082

RESUMO

Algae have evolved several mechanisms to adjust to changing environmental conditions. To separate from their surroundings, algal cell membranes form a hydrophobic barrier that is critical for life. Thus, it is important to maintain or adjust the physical and biochemical properties of cell membranes which are exposed to environmental factors. Especially glycerolipids of thylakoid membranes, the site of photosynthesis and photoprotection within chloroplasts, are affected by different light conditions. Since little is known about membrane lipid remodeling upon different light treatments, we examined light induced alterations in the glycerolipid composition of the two Chlorella species, C. vulgaris and C. sorokiniana, which differ strongly in their ability to cope with different light intensities. Lipidomic analysis and isotopic labeling experiments revealed differences in the composition of their galactolipid species, although both species likely utilize galactolipid precursors originated from the endoplasmic reticulum. However, in silico research of de novo sequenced genomes and ortholog mapping of proteins putatively involved in lipid metabolism showed largely conserved lipid biosynthesis pathways suggesting species specific lipid remodeling mechanisms, which possibly have an impact on the response to different light conditions.


Assuntos
Luz , Lipídeos de Membrana/metabolismo , Chlorella/efeitos da radiação , Metabolismo dos Lipídeos/efeitos da radiação , Oxigênio/metabolismo , Filogenia , RNA Ribossômico 18S/genética
9.
Photosynth Res ; 140(2): 221-233, 2019 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30357678

RESUMO

Photosynthetic phenotyping requires quick characterization of dynamic traits when measuring large plant numbers in a fluctuating environment. Here, we evaluated the light-induced fluorescence transient (LIFT) method for its capacity to yield rapidly fluorometric parameters from 0.6 m distance. The close approximation of LIFT to conventional chlorophyll fluorescence (ChlF) parameters is shown under controlled conditions in spinach leaves and isolated thylakoids when electron transport was impaired by anoxic conditions or chemical inhibitors. The ChlF rise from minimum fluorescence (Fo) to maximum fluorescence induced by fast repetition rate (Fm-FRR) flashes was dominated by reduction of the primary electron acceptor in photosystem II (QA). The subsequent reoxidation of QA- was quantified using the relaxation of ChlF in 0.65 ms (Fr1) and 120 ms (Fr2) phases. Reoxidation efficiency of QA- (Fr1/Fv, where Fv = Fm-FRR - Fo) decreased when electron transport was impaired, while quantum efficiency of photosystem II (Fv/Fm) showed often no significant effect. ChlF relaxations of the LIFT were similar to an independent other method. Under increasing light intensities, Fr2'/Fq' (where Fr2' and Fq' represent Fr2 and Fv in the light-adapted state, respectively) was hardly affected, whereas the operating efficiency of photosystem II (Fq'/Fm') decreased due to non-photochemical quenching. Fm-FRR was significantly lower than the ChlF maximum induced by multiple turnover (Fm-MT) flashes. However, the resulting Fv/Fm and Fq'/Fm' from both flashes were highly correlated. The LIFT method complements Fv/Fm with information about efficiency of electron transport. Measurements in situ and from a distance facilitate application in high-throughput and automated phenotyping.


Assuntos
Transporte de Elétrons , Fotossíntese , Complexo de Proteína do Fotossistema II/metabolismo , Spinacia oleracea/fisiologia , Fluorescência , Cinética , Luz , Folhas de Planta/metabolismo , Spinacia oleracea/efeitos da radiação , Tilacoides/metabolismo
10.
Remote Sens Environ ; 2312019 Sep 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33414568

RESUMO

Remote sensing of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) is a rapidly advancing front in terrestrial vegetation science, with emerging capability in space-based methodologies and diverse application prospects. Although remote sensing of SIF - especially from space - is seen as a contemporary new specialty for terrestrial plants, it is founded upon a multi-decadal history of research, applications, and sensor developments in active and passive sensing of chlorophyll fluorescence. Current technical capabilities allow SIF to be measured across a range of biological, spatial, and temporal scales. As an optical signal, SIF may be assessed remotely using highly-resolved spectral sensors and state-of-the-art algorithms to distinguish the emission from reflected and/or scattered ambient light. Because the red to far-red SIF emission is detectable non-invasively, it may be sampled repeatedly to acquire spatio-temporally explicit information about photosynthetic light responses and steady-state behaviour in vegetation. Progress in this field is accelerating with innovative sensor developments, retrieval methods, and modelling advances. This review distills the historical and current developments spanning the last several decades. It highlights SIF heritage and complementarity within the broader field of fluorescence science, the maturation of physiological and radiative transfer modelling, SIF signal retrieval strategies, techniques for field and airborne sensing, advances in satellite-based systems, and applications of these capabilities in evaluation of photosynthesis and stress effects. Progress, challenges, and future directions are considered for this unique avenue of remote sensing.

11.
Biochem Soc Trans ; 46(2): 483-490, 2018 04 17.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29666218

RESUMO

Phosphorus (P) is an essential non-renewable nutrient that frequently limits plant growth. It is the foundation of modern agriculture and, to a large extent, demand for P is met from phosphate rock deposits which are limited and becoming increasingly scarce. Adding an extra stroke to this already desolate picture is the fact that a high percentage of P, through agricultural runoff and waste, makes its way into rivers and oceans leading to eutrophication and collapse of ecosystems. Therefore, there is a critical need to practise P recovery from waste and establish a circular economy applicable to P resources. The potential of microalgae to uptake large quantities of P and use of this P enriched algal biomass as biofertiliser has been regarded as a promising way to redirect P from wastewater to the field. This also makes the study of molecular mechanisms underlying P uptake and storage in microalgae of great interest. In the present paper, we review phosphate models, which express the growth rate as a function of intra- and extracellular phosphorus content for better understanding of phosphate uptake and dynamics of phosphate pools.


Assuntos
Microalgas/metabolismo , Fósforo/metabolismo , Agricultura , Biomassa , Ecossistema , Eutrofização , Microalgas/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Modelos Teóricos , Águas Residuárias
12.
Anal Chem ; 89(22): 12006-12013, 2017 11 21.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29099580

RESUMO

Polyphosphates have occurred in living cells early in evolution and microalgae contain these important polymers in their cells. Progress in research of polyphosphate metabolism of these ecologically as well as biotechnologically important microorganisms is hampered by the lack of rapid quantification methods. Experiments with the green alga Chlorella vulgaris presented here compared polyphosphate extraction in water, methanol-chloroform, and phenol-chloroform followed by polyphosphate purification by binding to silica columns or ethanol precipitation. The phenol-chloroform extraction of C. vulgaris followed by ethanol precipitation of polyphosphate was shown to be superior to the other tested method variants. Recovery test of added polyphosphate standard to algal biomass showed that the method is accurate. Using this biochemical assay as a validated reference, we show that 2-dimensional, confocal Raman microscopy can serve as a linear proxy for polyphosphate in C. vulgaris with R2 up to 0.956. With this, polyphosphate quantification can be shortened by use of Raman microscopy from days to hours and, additionally, information about intracellular distribution of polyphosphate and heterogeneity among individual cells in algal culture can be obtained. This offers new insights into the dynamics and role of these polymers crucial for phosphorus uptake and storage. This analytical capability is of particular practical importance because algae aid phosphorus sequestration from wastewater and the thus enriched biomass may serve as organic fertilizer. Both these applications have a strong potential in a future sustainable, circular bioeconomy.


Assuntos
Hidrolases Anidrido Ácido/metabolismo , Chlorella vulgaris/química , Polifosfatos/análise , Polifosfatos/metabolismo , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/enzimologia , Análise Espectral Raman , Águas Residuárias/química
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 110(32): 13210-5, 2013 Aug 06.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23878254

RESUMO

The unicellular cyanobacterium Cyanothece sp. American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) 51142 is capable of performing oxygenic photosynthesis during the day and microoxic nitrogen fixation at night. These mutually exclusive processes are possible only by temporal separation by circadian clock or another cellular program. We report identification of a temperature-dependent ultradian metabolic rhythm that controls the alternating oxygenic and microoxic processes of Cyanothece sp. ATCC 51142 under continuous high irradiance and in high CO2 concentration. During the oxygenic photosynthesis phase, nitrate deficiency limited protein synthesis and CO2 assimilation was directed toward glycogen synthesis. The carbohydrate accumulation reduced overexcitation of the photosynthetic reactions until a respiration burst initiated a transition to microoxic N2 fixation. In contrast to the circadian clock, this ultradian period is strongly temperature-dependent: 17 h at 27 °C, which continuously decreased to 10 h at 39 °C. The cycle was expressed by an oscillatory modulation of net O2 evolution, CO2 uptake, pH, fluorescence emission, glycogen content, cell division, and culture optical density. The corresponding ultradian modulation was also observed in the transcription of nitrogenase-related nifB and nifH genes and in nitrogenase activities. We propose that the control by the newly identified metabolic cycle adds another rhythmic component to the circadian clock that reflects the true metabolic state depending on the actual temperature, irradiance, and CO2 availability.


Assuntos
Ritmo Circadiano/fisiologia , Cyanothece/metabolismo , Fixação de Nitrogênio/fisiologia , Fotossíntese/fisiologia , Proteínas de Bactérias/genética , Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , Reatores Biológicos/microbiologia , Dióxido de Carbono/metabolismo , Ritmo Circadiano/genética , Cyanothece/genética , Cyanothece/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Regulação Bacteriana da Expressão Gênica , Regulação da Expressão Gênica no Desenvolvimento , Glicogênio/metabolismo , Concentração de Íons de Hidrogênio , Fixação de Nitrogênio/genética , Oxirredutases/genética , Oxirredutases/metabolismo , Oxigênio/metabolismo , Fotossíntese/genética , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase Via Transcriptase Reversa
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Biochim Biophys Acta ; 1817(5): 792-801, 2012 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22266340

RESUMO

Oxygenic photosynthesis in cyanobacteria, algae, and plants requires photosystem II (PSII) to extract electrons from H(2)O and depends on photosystem I (PSI) to reduce NADP(+). Here we demonstrate that mixotrophically-grown mutants of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 that lack PSI (ΔPSI) are capable of net light-induced O(2) evolution in vivo. The net light-induced O(2) evolution requires glucose and can be sustained for more than 30 min. Utilizing electron transport inhibitors and chlorophyll a fluorescence measurements, we show that in these mutants PSII is the source of the light-induced O(2) evolution, and that the plastoquinone pool is reduced by PSII and subsequently oxidized by an unidentified electron acceptor that does not involve the plastoquinol oxidase site of the cytochrome b(6)f complex. Moreover, both O(2) evolution and chlorophyll a fluorescence kinetics of the ΔPSI mutants are highly sensitive to KCN, indicating the involvement of a KCN-sensitive enzyme(s). Experiments using (14)C-labeled bicarbonate show that the ΔPSI mutants assimilate more CO(2) in the light compared to the dark. However, the rate of the light-minus-dark CO(2) assimilation accounts for just over half of the net light-induced O(2) evolution rate, indicating the involvement of unidentified terminal electron acceptors. Based on these results we suggest that O(2) evolution in ΔPSI cells can be sustained by an alternative electron transport pathway that results in CO(2) assimilation and that includes PSII, the platoquinone pool, and a KCN-sensitive enzyme.


Assuntos
Deleção de Genes , Luz , Oxigênio/metabolismo , Complexo de Proteína do Fotossistema I/genética , Synechocystis/metabolismo , Dióxido de Carbono/metabolismo , Respiração Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Respiração Celular/efeitos da radiação , Clorofila/metabolismo , Clorofila A , Complexo Citocromos b6f/metabolismo , Escuridão , Dibromotimoquinona/farmacologia , Diurona/farmacologia , Fluorescência , Glucose/farmacologia , Cinética , Oxirredução/efeitos dos fármacos , Oxirredução/efeitos da radiação , Complexo de Proteína do Fotossistema I/metabolismo , Complexo de Proteína do Fotossistema II/metabolismo , Plastoquinona/metabolismo , Cianeto de Potássio/farmacologia , Bicarbonato de Sódio/farmacologia , Análise Espectral , Synechocystis/efeitos dos fármacos , Synechocystis/efeitos da radiação
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Sensors (Basel) ; 12(1): 1052-71, 2012.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22368511

RESUMO

Plant leaves grow and change their orientation as well their emission of chlorophyll fluorescence in time. All these dynamic plant properties can be semi-automatically monitored by a 3D imaging system that generates plant models by the method of coded light illumination, fluorescence imaging and computer 3D reconstruction. Here, we describe the essentials of the method, as well as the system hardware. We show that the technique can reconstruct, with a high fidelity, the leaf size, the leaf angle and the plant height. The method fails with wilted plants when leaves overlap obscuring their true area. This effect, naturally, also interferes when the method is applied to measure plant growth under water stress. The method is, however, very potent in capturing the plant dynamics under mild stress and without stress. The 3D reconstruction is also highly effective in correcting geometrical factors that distort measurements of chlorophyll fluorescence emission of naturally positioned plant leaves.


Assuntos
Capsicum/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Clorofila/metabolismo , Imageamento Tridimensional/métodos , Phaseolus/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Capsicum/anatomia & histologia , Phaseolus/anatomia & histologia , Folhas de Planta/anatomia & histologia , Folhas de Planta/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Espectrometria de Fluorescência , Estresse Fisiológico
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Planta ; 234(3): 477-86, 2011 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21533754

RESUMO

A role of non-reducing sugars like sucrose and raffinose in the protection of plant cells against damage during freezing has been proposed for many species, but reports on physiological effects are conflicting. Non-aqueous fractionation of mesophyll cell compartments in Arabidopsis thaliana was used to show that sucrose and raffinose accumulate in plastids during low temperatures, pointing to a physiological role in protecting the photosynthetic apparatus. Comparing a previously described raffinose synthase (RS) mutant of A. thaliana with its corresponding wild type, accession Col-0, revealed that a lack of raffinose has no effect on electrolyte leakage from leaf cells after freeze-thaw cycles, supporting that raffinose is not essential for protecting the plasma membrane. However, in situ chlorophyll fluorescence showed that maximum quantum yield of PS II photochemistry (F (v)/F (m)) and other fluorescence parameters of cold acclimated leaves subjected to freeze-thaw cycles were significantly lower in the raffinose synthase mutant than in the corresponding wild type, indicating that raffinose is involved in stabilizing PS II of cold acclimated leaf cells against damage during freezing.


Assuntos
Aclimatação/fisiologia , Complexo de Proteína do Fotossistema II/metabolismo , Rafinose/metabolismo , Arabidopsis/metabolismo , Temperatura Baixa , Folhas de Planta/metabolismo
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Physiol Plant ; 142(1): 26-34, 2011 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21288249

RESUMO

Recombination of the primary radical pair of photosystem II (PSII) of photosynthesis may produce the triplet state of the primary donor of PSII. Triplet formation is potentially harmful because chlorophyll triplets can react with molecular oxygen to produce the reactive singlet oxygen (¹O2). The yield of ¹O2 is expected to be directly proportional to the triplet yield and the triplet yield of charge recombination can be lowered with a magnetic field of 100-300 mT. In this study, we illuminated intact pumpkin leaves with strong light in the presence and absence of a magnetic field and found that the magnetic field protects against photoinhibition of PSII. The result suggests that radical pair recombination is responsible for significant part of ¹O2 production in the chloroplast. The magnetic field effect vanished if leaves were illuminated in the presence of lincomycin, an inhibitor of chloroplast protein synthesis, or if isolated thylakoid membranes were exposed to light. These data, in turn, indicate that ¹O2 produced by the recombination of the primary charge pair is not directly involved in photoinactivation of PSII but instead damages PSII by inhibiting the repair of photoinhibited PSII. We also found that an Arabidopsis thaliana mutant lacking α-tocopherol, a scavenger of ¹O2, is more sensitive to photoinhibition than the wild-type in the absence but not in the presence of lincomycin, confirming that the target of ¹O2 is the repair mechanism.


Assuntos
Arabidopsis/metabolismo , Arabidopsis/efeitos da radiação , Cucurbita/metabolismo , Cucurbita/efeitos da radiação , Luz , Magnetismo , Oxigênio Singlete/metabolismo , Arabidopsis/enzimologia , Transferases Intramoleculares/genética , Cinética , Mutação/genética , Oxigênio/metabolismo , Complexo de Proteína do Fotossistema II/metabolismo , Folhas de Planta/metabolismo , Folhas de Planta/efeitos da radiação , Tocoferóis/metabolismo
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Cells ; 10(1)2021 01 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33401566

RESUMO

Photosynthetic energy conversion and the resulting photoautotrophic growth of green algae can only occur in daylight, but DNA replication, nuclear and cellular divisions occur often during the night. With such a light/dark regime, an algal culture becomes synchronized. In this study, using synchronized cultures of the green alga Desmodesmus quadricauda, the dynamics of starch, lipid, polyphosphate, and guanine pools were investigated during the cell cycle by two independent methodologies; conventional biochemical analyzes of cell suspensions and confocal Raman microscopy of single algal cells. Raman microscopy reports not only on mean concentrations, but also on the distribution of pools within cells. This is more sensitive in detecting lipids than biochemical analysis, but both methods-as well as conventional fluorescence microscopy-were comparable in detecting polyphosphates. Discrepancies in the detection of starch by Raman microscopy are discussed. The power of Raman microscopy was proven to be particularly valuable in the detection of guanine, which was traceable by its unique vibrational signature. Guanine microcrystals occurred specifically at around the time of DNA replication and prior to nuclear division. Interestingly, guanine crystals co-localized with polyphosphates in the vicinity of nuclei around the time of nuclear division.


Assuntos
Ciclo Celular , Clorófitas/citologia , Guanina/análise , Lipídeos/análise , Microscopia , Polifosfatos/análise , Análise Espectral Raman , Amido/análise , Tamanho Celular , Parede Celular/química , Clorófitas/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Gotículas Lipídicas/metabolismo , Fatores de Tempo
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Photosynth Res ; 105(3): 273-83, 2010 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20730565

RESUMO

Rapid nondestructive screening of mutants is a common step in many research projects in plant biology. Here we report the development of a method that uses kinetic imaging of chlorophyll fluorescence to detect phenotypes that differ from wild-type plants. The method uses multiple fluorescence features simultaneously in order to catch different types of photosynthesis-related mutants with a single assay. The Mahalanobis distance was used to evaluate the degree of similarity in fluorescence features between the wild-type and test plants, and plants differing strongly from the wild-type were classified as mutants. The method was tested on a collection of photosynthesis-related mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana. The plants were evaluated from images in which the color of each pixel depended on the Mahalanobis distance of the fluorescence features. Two parameters of the color-coding procedure were used to adjust the trade-off between detection of true mutants and erratic classification of wild-type plants as mutants. We found that a large percentage of photosynthesis-related mutants can be detected with this method. Scripts for the free statistics software R are provided to facilitate the practical application of the method.


Assuntos
Arabidopsis/metabolismo , Clorofila/metabolismo , Fluorescência , Arabidopsis/genética , Software
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J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol ; 37(12): 1319-26, 2010 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21086107

RESUMO

Carbon dioxide (CO2) availability strongly affects the productivity of algal photobioreactors, where it is dynamically exchanged between different compartments, phases, and chemical forms. To understand the underlying processes, we constructed a nonequilibrium mathematical model of CO2 dynamics in a flat-panel algal photobioreactor. The model includes mass transfer to the algal suspension from a stream of bubbles of CO2-enriched air and from the photobioreactor headspace. Also included are the hydration of dissolved CO2 to bicarbonate ion (HCO3⁻) as well as uptake and/or cycling of these two chemical forms by the cells. The model was validated in experiments using a laboratory-scale flat-panel photobioreactor that controls light, temperature, and pH and where the concentration of dissolved CO2, and partial pressure of CO2 in the photobioreactor exhaust are measured. First, the model prediction was compared with measured CO2 dynamics that occurred in response to a stepwise change in the CO2 partial pressure in the gas sparger. Furthermore, the model was used to predict CO2 dynamics in photobioreactors with unicellular, nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Cyanothece sp. The metabolism changes dramatically during a day, and the distribution of CO2 is expected to exhibit a pronounced diurnal modulation that significantly deviates from chemical equilibrium.


Assuntos
Dióxido de Carbono/metabolismo , Cianobactérias/metabolismo , Modelos Teóricos , Fotobiorreatores , Ar , Meios de Cultura , Cianobactérias/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Luz , Temperatura
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