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Journal Article
Thylakoid Protein Phosphorylation in Higher Plant Chloroplasts Optimizes Electron Transfer under Fluctuating Light
2010
Overview
Several proteins of photosystem II (PSII) and its light-harvesting antenna (LHCII) are reversibly phosphorylated according to light quantity and quality. Nevertheless, the interdependence of protein phosphorylation, nonphotochemical quenching, and efficiency of electron transfer in the thylakoid membrane has remained elusive. These questions were addressed by investigating in parallel the wild type and the stn7, stn8, and stn7 stn8 kinase mutants of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), using the stn7 npq4, npq4, npq1, and pgr5 mutants as controls. Phosphorylation of PSII-LHCII proteins is strongly and dynamically regulated according to white light intensity. Yet, the changes in phosphorylation do not notably modify the relative excitation energy distribution between PSII and PSI, as typically occurs when phosphorylation is induced by \"state 2\" light that selectively excites PSII and induces the phosphorylation of both the PSII core and LHCII proteins. On the contrary, under low-light conditions, when excitation energy transfer from LHCII to reaction centers is efficient, the STN7-dependent LHCII protein phosphorylation guarantees a balanced distribution of excitation energy to both photosystems. The importance of this regulation diminishes at high light upon induction of thermal dissipation of excitation energy. Lack of the STN7 kinase, and thus the capacity for equal distribution of excitation energy to PSII and PSI, causes relative overexcitation of PSII under low light but not under high light, leading to disturbed maintenance of fluent electron flow under fluctuating light intensities. The physiological relevance of the STN7-dependent regulation is evidenced by severely stunted phenotypes of the stn7 and stn7 stn8 mutants under strongly fluctuating light conditions.
Publisher
American Society of Plant Biologists
Subject
/ analysis
/ BIOENERGETICS AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
/ genetics
/ Light
/ Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes
/ Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes - genetics
/ Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes - metabolism
/ Membrane Proteins - genetics
/ Membrane Proteins - metabolism
/ mutants
/ Photons
/ Photosystem II Protein Complex
/ Photosystem II Protein Complex - genetics
/ Photosystem II Protein Complex - metabolism
/ Plant physiology and development
/ Plants
