Letter to Nature. Low-light-adapted Prochlorococcus species possess specific antennae for each photosystem
Bibby, T.S., Mary, I., Nield, J., Partensky, F. and Barber, J. (2003) Letter to Nature. Low-light-adapted Prochlorococcus species possess specific antennae for each photosystem. Nature, 424, (6952), 1051-1054. (doi:10.1038/nature01933).
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Prochlorococcus, the most abundant genus of photosynthetic organisms, owes its remarkably large depth distribution in the oceans to the occurrence of distinct genotypes adapted to either low- or high-light niches. The pcb genes, encoding the major chlorophyll-binding, light-harvesting antenna proteins in this genus, are present in multiple copies in low-light strains but as a single copy in high-light strains. The basis of this differentiation, however, has remained obscure. Here we show that the moderate low-light-adapted strain Prochlorococcus sp. MIT 9313 has one iron-stress-induced pcb gene encoding an antenna protein serving photosystem I (PSI)—comparable to isiA genes from cyanobacteria—and a constitutively expressed pcb gene encoding a photosystem II (PSII) antenna protein. By comparison, the very low-light-adapted strain SS120 has seven pcb genes encoding constitutive PSI and PSII antennae, plus one PSI iron-regulated pcb gene, whereas the high-light-adapted strain MED4 has only a constitutive PSII antenna. Thus, it seems that the adaptation of Prochlorococcus to low light environments has triggered a multiplication and specialization of Pcb proteins comparable to that found for Cab proteins in plants and green algae.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0028-0836 (print) |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QR Microbiology |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Ocean & Earth Science (SOC/SOES) University Structure - Pre August 2011 > National Oceanography Centre (NERC) |
| Item ID: | 37559 |
| Date Deposited: | 23 May 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 12:28 |
| Contributors: | Bibby, T.S. (Author) Mary, I. (Author) Nield, J. (Author) Partensky, F. (Author) Barber, J. (Author) |
| Date: | 28 August 2003 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/37559 |
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