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Fadeeva M, Klaiman D, Caspy I, Nelson N. Structure of Chlorella ohadii Photosystem II Reveals Protective Mechanisms against Environmental Stress. Cells 2023; 12:1971. [PMID: 37566050 PMCID: PMC10416949 DOI: 10.3390/cells12151971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2023] [Revised: 07/23/2023] [Accepted: 07/29/2023] [Indexed: 08/12/2023] Open
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Green alga Chlorella ohadii is known for its ability to carry out photosynthesis under harsh conditions. Using cryogenic electron microscopy (cryoEM), we obtained a high-resolution structure of PSII at 2.72 Å. This structure revealed 64 subunits, which encompassed 386 chlorophylls, 86 carotenoids, four plastoquinones, and several structural lipids. At the luminal side of PSII, a unique subunit arrangement was observed to protect the oxygen-evolving complex. This arrangement involved PsbO (OEE1), PsbP (OEE2), PsbB, and PsbU (a homolog of plant OEE3). PsbU interacted with PsbO, PsbC, and PsbP, thereby stabilizing the shield of the oxygen-evolving complex. Significant changes were also observed at the stromal electron acceptor side. PsbY, identified as a transmembrane helix, was situated alongside PsbF and PsbE, which enclosed cytochrome b559. Supported by the adjacent C-terminal helix of Psb10, these four transmembrane helices formed a bundle that shielded cytochrome b559 from the surrounding solvent. Moreover, the bulk of Psb10 formed a protective cap, which safeguarded the quinone site and likely contributed to the stacking of PSII complexes. Based on our findings, we propose a protective mechanism that prevents QB (plastoquinone B) from becoming fully reduced. This mechanism offers insights into the regulation of electron transfer within PSII.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel; (M.F.); (D.K.); (I.C.)
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Fadeeva M, Klaiman D, Caspy I, Nelson N. CryoEM PSII structure reveals adaptation mechanisms to environmental stress in Chlorella ohadii. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.05.04.539358. [PMID: 37205566 PMCID: PMC10187303 DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.04.539358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Performing photosynthesis in the desert is a challenging task since it requires a fast adaptation to extreme illumination and temperature changes. To understand adaptive mechanisms, we purified Photosystem II (PSII) from Chlorella ohadii , a green alga from the desert soil surface, and identified structural elements that might enable the photosystem functioning under harsh conditions. The 2.72 Å cryogenic electron-microscopy (cryoEM) structure of PSII exhibited 64 subunits, encompassing 386 chlorophylls, 86 carotenoids, four plastoquinones, and several structural lipids. At the luminal side of PSII, the oxygen evolving complex was protected by a unique subunit arrangement - PsbO (OEE1), PsbP (OEE2), CP47, and PsbU (plant OEE3 homolog). PsbU interacted with PsbO, CP43, and PsbP, thus stabilising the oxygen evolving shield. Substantial changes were observed on the stromal electron acceptor side - PsbY was identified as a transmembrane helix situated alongside PsbF and PsbE enclosing cytochrome b559, supported by the adjacent C-terminal helix of Psb10. These four transmembrane helices bundled jointly, shielding cytochrome b559 from the solvent. The bulk of Psb10 formed a cap protecting the quinone site and probably contributed to the PSII stacking. So far, the C. ohadii PSII structure is the most complete description of the complex, suggesting numerous future experiments. A protective mechanism that prevented Q B from rendering itself fully reduced is proposed.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
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Hansson EM, Childs DZ, Beckerman AP. Mesostats—A multiplexed, low-cost, do-it-yourself continuous culturing system for experimental evolution of mesocosms. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0272052. [PMID: 35901067 PMCID: PMC9333204 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2022] [Accepted: 07/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Microbial experimental evolution allows studying evolutionary dynamics in action and testing theory predictions in the lab. Experimental evolution in chemostats (i.e. continuous flow through cultures) has recently gained increased interest as it allows tighter control of selective pressures compared to static batch cultures, with a growing number of efforts to develop systems that are easier and cheaper to construct. This protocol describes the design and construction of a multiplexed chemostat array (dubbed “mesostats”) designed for cultivation of algae in 16 concurrent populations, specifically intended for studying adaptation to herbicides. We also present control data from several experiments run on the system to show replicability, data illustrating the effects of common issues like leaks, contamination and clumps, and outline possible modifications and adaptations of the system for future research.
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- Erika M. Hansson
- School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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- School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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- School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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Mosey M, Douchi D, Knoshaug EP, Laurens LM. Methodological review of genetic engineering approaches for non-model algae. ALGAL RES 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.algal.2021.102221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Salomé PA, Merchant SS. A Series of Fortunate Events: Introducing Chlamydomonas as a Reference Organism. THE PLANT CELL 2019; 31:1682-1707. [PMID: 31189738 PMCID: PMC6713297 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.18.00952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2018] [Revised: 05/20/2019] [Accepted: 06/08/2019] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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The unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a classical reference organism for studying photosynthesis, chloroplast biology, cell cycle control, and cilia structure and function. It is also an emerging model for studying sensory cilia, the production of high-value bioproducts, and in situ structural determination. Much of the early appeal of Chlamydomonas was rooted in its promise as a genetic system, but like other classic model organisms, this rise to prominence predated the discovery of the structure of DNA, whole-genome sequences, and molecular techniques for gene manipulation. The haploid genome of C. reinhardtii facilitates genetic analyses and offers many of the advantages of microbial systems applied to a photosynthetic organism. C. reinhardtii has contributed to our understanding of chloroplast-based photosynthesis and cilia biology. Despite pervasive transgene silencing, technological advances have allowed researchers to address outstanding lines of inquiry in algal research. The most thoroughly studied unicellular alga, C. reinhardtii, is the current standard for algal research, and although genome editing is still far from efficient and routine, it nevertheless serves as a template for other algae. We present a historical retrospective of the rise of C. reinhardtii to illuminate its past and present. We also present resources for current and future scientists who may wish to expand their studies to the realm of microalgae.
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- Patrice A Salomé
- University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Los Angeles, CA 90095
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- University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Los Angeles, CA 90095
- University of California, Berkeley, Departments of Plant and Microbial Biology and Molecular and Cell Biology, Berkeley, CA 94720
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Yang X, Peng J, Pan J. Nourseothricin N-acetyl transferase (NAT), a new selectable marker for nuclear gene expression in Chlamydomonas. PLANT METHODS 2019; 15:140. [PMID: 31827577 PMCID: PMC6862857 DOI: 10.1186/s13007-019-0526-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2019] [Accepted: 11/13/2019] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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BACKGROUND Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a unicellular green alga, which is a most commonly used model organism for basic research and biotechnological applications. Generation of transgenic strains, which usually requires selectable markers, is instrumental in such studies/applications. Compared to other organisms, the number of selectable markers is limited in this organism. Nourseothricin (NTC) N-acetyl transferase (NAT) has been reported as a selectable marker in a variety of organisms but not including C. reinhardtii. Thus, we investigated whether NAT was useful and effective for selection of transgenic strains in C. reinhardtii. The successful use of NAT would provide alterative choice for selectable markers in this organism and likely in other microalgae. RESULTS C. reinhardtii was sensitive to NTC at concentrations as low as 5 µg/ml. There was no cross-resistance to nourseothricin in strains that had been transformed with hygromycin B and/or paromomycin resistance genes. A codon-optimized NAT from Streptomyces noursei was synthesized and assembled into different expression vectors followed by transformation into Chlamydomonas. Around 500 transformants could be obtained by using 50 ng DNA on selection with 10 µg/ml NTC. The transformants exhibited normal growth rate and were stable at least for 10 months on conditions even without selection. We successfully tested that NAT could be used as a selectable marker for ectopic expression of IFT54-HA in strains with paromomycin and hygromycin B resistance markers. We further showed that the selection rate for IFT54-HA positive clones was greatly increased by fusing IFT54-HA to NAT and processing with the FMDV 2A peptide. CONCLUSIONS This work represents the first demonstration of stable expression of NAT in the nuclear genome of C. reinhardtii and provides evidence that NAT can be used as an effective selectable marker for transgenic strains. It provides alterative choice for selectable markers in C. reinhardtii. NAT is compatible with paromomycin and hygromycin B resistance genes, which allows for multiple selections.
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- Xinjia Yang
- MOE Key Laboratory of Protein Sciences, Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Protein Sciences, Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Protein Sciences, Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China
- Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266000 Shandong China
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Specht EA, Karunanithi PS, Gimpel JA, Ansari WS, Mayfield SP. Host Organisms: Algae. Ind Biotechnol (New Rochelle N Y) 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/9783527807796.ch16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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- Elizabeth A. Specht
- University of California; California Center for Algae Biotechnology; Division of Biological Sciences; 9500 Gilman Drive San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093 USA
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- University of California; California Center for Algae Biotechnology; Division of Biological Sciences; 9500 Gilman Drive San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093 USA
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- Centre for Biotechnology and Bioengineering; Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Universidad de Chile; 851 Beaucheff Santiago USA
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- University of California; California Center for Algae Biotechnology; Division of Biological Sciences; 9500 Gilman Drive San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093 USA
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- University of California; California Center for Algae Biotechnology; Division of Biological Sciences; 9500 Gilman Drive San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093 USA
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Suarez JV, Banks S, Thomas PG, Day A. A new F131V mutation in Chlamydomonas phytoene desaturase locates a cluster of norflurazon resistance mutations near the FAD-binding site in 3D protein models. PLoS One 2014; 9:e99894. [PMID: 24936791 PMCID: PMC4061028 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2014] [Accepted: 05/20/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii provides a tractable genetic model to study herbicide mode of action using forward genetics. The herbicide norflurazon inhibits phytoene desaturase, which is required for carotenoid synthesis. Locating amino acid substitutions in mutant phytoene desaturases conferring norflurazon resistance provides a genetic approach to map the herbicide binding site. We isolated a UV-induced mutant able to grow in very high concentrations of norflurazon (150 µM). The phytoene desaturase gene in the mutant strain contained the first resistance mutation to be localised to the dinucleotide-binding Rossmann-likedomain. A highly conserved phenylalanine amino acid at position 131 of the 564 amino acid precursor protein was changed to a valine in the mutant protein. F131, and two other amino acids whose substitution confers norflurazon resistance in homologous phytoene desaturase proteins, map to distant regions in the primary sequence of the C. reinhardtii protein (V472, L505) but in tertiary models these residues cluster together to a region close to the predicted FAD binding site. The mutant gene allowed direct 5 µM norflurazon based selection of transformants, which were tolerant to other bleaching herbicides including fluridone, flurtamone, and diflufenican but were more sensitive to beflubutamid than wild type cells. Norflurazon resistance and beflubutamid sensitivity allow either positive or negative selection against transformants expressing the mutant phytoene desaturase gene.
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- Julio V. Suarez
- Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Bricker TM, Bell AJ, Tran L, Frankel LK, Theg SM. Photoheterotrophic growth of Physcomitrella patens. PLANTA 2014; 239:605-613. [PMID: 24281299 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-013-2000-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2013] [Accepted: 11/08/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Physcomitrella patens is a model bryophyte representing an early land plant in the green plant lineage. This organism possesses many advantages as a model organism. Its genome has been sequenced, its predominant life cycle stage is the haploid gametophyte, it is readily transformable and it can integrate transformed DNA into its genome by homologous recombination. One limitation for the use of P. patens in photosynthesis research is its reported inability to grow photoheterotrophically, in the presence of sucrose and the Photosystem II inhibitor 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea, which prevents linear photosynthetic electron transport. In this communication we describe the facile isolation of a P. patens strain which can grow photoheterotrophically. Additionally, we have examined a number of photosynthetic parameters for this strain grown under photoautotrophic, mixotrophic (in the presence of sucrose) and photoheterotrophic conditions, as well as the 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea-inhibited state. The ability to grow P. patens photoheterotrophically should significantly facilitate its use in photosynthetic studies.
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- Terry M Bricker
- Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA,
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Viaene KPJ, De Laender F, Van den Brink PJ, Janssen CR. Using additive modelling to quantify the effect of chemicals on phytoplankton diversity and biomass. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2013; 449:71-80. [PMID: 23416202 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.01.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2012] [Revised: 12/19/2012] [Accepted: 01/11/2013] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Environmental authorities require the protection of biodiversity and other ecosystem properties such as biomass production. However, the endpoints listed in available ecotoxicological datasets generally do not contain these two ecosystem descriptors. Inferring the effects of chemicals on such descriptors from micro- or mesocosm experiments is often hampered by inherent differences in the initial biodiversity levels between experimental units or by delayed community responses. Here we introduce additive modelling to establish the effects of a chronic application of the herbicide linuron on 10 biodiversity indices and phytoplankton biomass in microcosms. We found that communities with a low (high) initial biodiversity subsequently became more (less) diverse, indicating an equilibrium biodiversity status in the communities considered here. Linuron adversely affected richness and evenness while dominance increased but no biodiversity indices were different from the control treatment at linuron concentrations below 2.4 μg/L. Richness-related indices changed at lower linuron concentrations (effects noticeable from 2.4 μg/L) than other biodiversity indices (effects noticeable from 14.4 μg/L) and, in contrast to the other indices, showed no signs of recovery following chronic exposure. Phytoplankton biomass was unaffected by linuron due to functional redundancy within the phytoplankton community. Comparing thresholds for biodiversity with conventional toxicity test results showed that standard ecological risk assessments also protect biodiversity in the case of linuron.
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- K P J Viaene
- Laboratory of Environmental Toxicity and Aquatic Ecology, Ghent University, Plateaustraat 22, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
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Alfred SE, Surendra A, Le C, Lin K, Mok A, Wallace IM, Proctor M, Urbanus ML, Giaever G, Nislow C. A phenotypic screening platform to identify small molecule modulators of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii growth, motility and photosynthesis. Genome Biol 2012; 13:R105. [PMID: 23158586 PMCID: PMC3580497 DOI: 10.1186/gb-2012-13-11-r105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2012] [Accepted: 11/18/2012] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Chemical biology, the interfacial discipline of using small molecules as probes to investigate biology, is a powerful approach of developing specific, rapidly acting tools that can be applied across organisms. The single-celled alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is an excellent model system because of its photosynthetic ability, cilia-related motility and simple genetics. We report the results of an automated fitness screen of 5,445 small molecules and subsequent assays on motility/phototaxis and photosynthesis. Cheminformatic analysis revealed active core structures and was used to construct a naïve Bayes model that successfully predicts algal bioactive compounds.
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Vogwill T, Lagator M, Colegrave N, Neve P. The experimental evolution of herbicide resistance in
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
results in a positive correlation between fitness in the presence and absence of herbicides. J Evol Biol 2012; 25:1955-1964. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02558.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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- T. Vogwill
- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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Rasala BA, Muto M, Sullivan J, Mayfield SP. Improved heterologous protein expression in the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii through promoter and 5' untranslated region optimization. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL 2011; 9:674-83. [PMID: 21535358 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2011.00620.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Microalgae have the potential to be a valuable biotechnological platform for the production of recombinant proteins. However, because of the complex regulatory network that tightly controls chloroplast gene expression, heterologous protein accumulation in a wild-type, photosynthetic-competent algal chloroplast remains low. High levels of heterologous protein accumulation have been achieved using the psbA promoter/5' untranslated region (UTR), but only in a psbA-deficient genetic background, because of psbA/D1-dependent auto-attenuation. Here, we examine the effect of fusing the strong 16S rRNA promoter to the 5' UTR of the psbA and atpA genes on transgene expression in the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. We show that fusion of the 16S promoter had little impact on protein accumulation from the psbA 5' UTR in a psbA-deficient genetic background. Furthermore, the 16S/psbA promoter/UTR fusion was silenced in the presence of wild-type levels of D1 protein, confirming that the psbA 5' UTR is the primary target for D1-dependent auto-repression. However, fusion of the 16S promoter to the atpA 5' UTR significantly boosts mRNA levels and supports high levels of heterologous protein accumulation in photosynthetic-competent cells. The 16S/atpA promoter/UTR drove LUXCT protein accumulation to levels close to that of psbA in a psbA- background, and drove expression of a human therapeutic protein to levels only twofold lower than the psbA 5' UTR. The 16S/atpA promoter/UTR combination should have utility for heterologous protein production when expression from a photosynthetic-competent microalgal strain is required.
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- Beth A Rasala
- Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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Erickson JM, Rahire M, Rochaix JD, Mets L. Herbicide resistance and cross-resistance: changes at three distinct sites in the herbicide-binding protein. Science 2010; 228:204-7. [PMID: 17779643 DOI: 10.1126/science.228.4696.204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Plants and algae resistant to the commonly used s-triazine herbicides display a wide spectrum of cross-resistance to other herbicides that act in a similar manner. Analysis of uniparental mutants of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardi showed that three different amino acid residues in the 32-kilodalton thylakoid membrane protein can be independently altered to produce three different patterns of resistance to s-triazine and urea-type herbicides. These results clarify the molecular basis for herbicide resistance and cross-resistance. Two of the mutations do not alter normal electron transport and thus may have applications of agronomic interest.
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Minai L, Wostrikoff K, Wollman FA, Choquet Y. Chloroplast biogenesis of photosystem II cores involves a series of assembly-controlled steps that regulate translation. THE PLANT CELL 2006; 18:159-75. [PMID: 16339851 PMCID: PMC1323491 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.105.037705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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The biogenesis of photosystem II, one of the major photosynthetic protein complexes, involves a cascade of assembly-governed regulation of translation of its major chloroplast-encoded subunits. In Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, the presence of the reaction center subunit D2 is required for the expression of the other reaction center subunit D1, while the presence of D1 is required for the expression of the core antenna subunit apoCP47. Using chimeric genes expressed in the chloroplast, we demonstrate that the decreased synthesis of D1 or apoCP47 in the absence of protein assembly is due to a genuine downregulation of translation. This regulation is mediated by the 5' untranslated region of the corresponding mRNA and originates from negative feedback exerted by the unassembled D1 or apoCP47 polypeptide. However, autoregulation of translation of subunit D1 is not implicated in the recovery from photoinhibition, which involves an increased translation of psbA mRNA in response to the degradation of photodamaged D1. De novo synthesis and repair of photosystem II complexes are independently controlled.
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- Limor Minai
- Unité Mixte de Recherche 7141, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, France
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Lee J, Herrin DL. Mutagenesis of a light-regulated psbA intron reveals the importance of efficient splicing for photosynthetic growth. Nucleic Acids Res 2003; 31:4361-72. [PMID: 12888495 PMCID: PMC169925 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2003] [Revised: 06/10/2003] [Accepted: 06/10/2003] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The chloroplast-encoded psbA gene encodes the D1 polypeptide of the photosystem II reaction center, which is synthesized at high rates in the light. In Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, the psbA gene contains four self-splicing group I introns whose rates of splicing in vivo are increased at least 6-10-fold by light. However, because psbA is an abundant mRNA, and some chloroplast mRNAs appear to be in great excess of what is needed to sustain translation rates, the developmental significance of light-promoted splicing has not been clear. To address this and other questions, potentially destabilizing substitutions were made in several predicted helices of the fourth psbA intron, Cr.psbA4, and their effects on in vitro and in vivo splicing assessed. Two-nucleotide substitutions in P4 and P7 were necessary to substantially reduce splicing of this intron in vivo, although most mutations reduced self-splicing in vitro. The P7-4,5 mutant, whose splicing was completely blocked, showed no photoautotrophic growth and synthesis of a truncated D1 (exons 1-4) polypeptide from the unspliced mRNA. Most informative was the P4'-3,4 mutant, which exhibited a 45% reduction in spliced psbA mRNA, a 28% reduction in synthesis of full-length D1, and an 18% reduction in photoautotrophic growth. These results indicate that psbA mRNA is not in great excess, and that highly efficient splicing of psbA introns, which is afforded by light conditions, is necessary for optimal photosynthetic growth.
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- Jaesung Lee
- Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology Section and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, 1 University Station A6700, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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Astier C, Meyer I, Vernotte C, Etienne A. Photosystem II electron transfer in highly herbicide resistant mutants ofSynechocystis6714. FEBS Lett 2002. [DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(86)81495-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Sajjaphan K, Shapir N, Judd AK, Wackett LP, Sadowsky MJ. Novel psbA1 gene from a naturally occurring atrazine-resistant cyanobacterial isolate. Appl Environ Microbiol 2002; 68:1358-66. [PMID: 11872488 PMCID: PMC123757 DOI: 10.1128/aem.68.3.1358-1366.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A naturally occurring atrazine-resistant cyanobacterial isolate, strain SG2, was isolated from an atrazine-containing wastewater treatment system at the Syngenta atrazine production facility in St. Gabriel, La. Strain SG2 was resistant to 1,000 microg of atrazine per ml but showed relatively low resistance to diuron [3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethyl urea]. Analyses of 16S ribosomal DNA indicated that strain SG2 falls into the Synechocystis/Pleurocapsa/Microcystis group. Photosynthetically driven oxygen evolution in strain SG2 was only slightly inhibited (about 10%) by 2,000 microg of atrazine per ml, whereas in the control strain Synechocystis 6803, oxygen evolution was inhibited 90% by 1,000 microg of atrazine per ml. No atrazine accretion, mineralization, or metabolites were detected when strain SG2 was grown with [(14)C]atrazine. Strain SG2 contained three copies of the psbA gene, which encodes the D(1) protein of the photosystem II reaction center. Nucleotide sequence analyses indicated that the psbA2 and psbA3 genes encoded predicted proteins with the same amino acid sequence. However, the psbA1 gene product contained five extra amino acids, which were not found in PsbA proteins from five other cyanobacteria. Moreover, the PsbA1 protein from strain SG2 had an additional 13 amino acid changes compared to the PsbA2/PsbA3 proteins and contained 10 amino acid alterations compared to conserved residues found in other cyanobacteria. Reverse transcriptase PCR analysis indicated that the psbA1 gene and the psbA2/psbA3 gene(s) were expressed in photosynthetically grown cells in the presence of atrazine. These results suggest that strong selection pressure conferred by the continual input of atrazine has contributed to the evolution of a herbicide-resistant, yet photosynthetically efficient, psbA gene in a cyanobacterium.
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- Kannika Sajjaphan
- Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, University of Minnesota, 1991 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
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Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has been used as an experimental model organism for circadian rhythm research for more than 30 yr. Some of the physiological rhythms of this alga are well established, and several clock mutants have been isolated. The cloning of clock genes from these mutant strains by positional cloning is under way and should give new insights into the mechanism of the circadian clock. In a spectacular space experiment, the question of the existence of an endogenous clock vs. an exogenous mechanism has been studied in this organism. With the emergence of molecular analysis of circadian rhythms in plants in 1985, a circadian gene expression pattern of several nuclear and chloroplast genes was detected. Evidence is now accumulating that shows circadian control at the translational level. In addition, the gating of the cell cycle by the circadian clock has been analyzed. This review focuses on the different aspects of circadian rhythm research in C. reinhardtii over the past 30 yr. The suitability of Chlamydomonas as a model system in chronobiology research and the adaptive significance of the observed rhythms will be discussed.
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- Ralf Werner
- University of Hamburg, Institute for General Botany and Botanical Garden, Department of Cell Biology, Germany.
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Schuster G, Pecker I, Hirschberg J, Kloppstech K, Ohad I. Transcription control of the 32 kDa-QBprotein of photosystem II in differentiated bundle sheath and mesophyll chloroplasts of maize. FEBS Lett 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(86)81184-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The chloroplast 32 kDa protein is synthesized on thylakoid-bound ribosomes inChlamydomonas reinhardtii. FEBS Lett 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(85)80660-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Metz JG, Bricker TM, Seibert M. The azido[14
C]atrazine photoaffinity technique labels a 34-kDa protein in Scenedesmus
which functions on the oxidizing side of photosystem II. FEBS Lett 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(85)80768-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Keller M, Stutz E. Structure of the Euglena gracilis
chloroplast gene (psbA
) coding for the 32-kDa protein of Photosystem II. FEBS Lett 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(84)80593-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Johanningmeier U, Bodner U, Wildner GF. A new mutation in the gene coding for the herbicide-binding protein in Chlamydomonas. FEBS Lett 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(87)81440-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Odom OW, Holloway SP, Deshpande NN, Lee J, Herrin DL. Mobile self-splicing group I introns from the psbA gene of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: highly efficient homing of an exogenous intron containing its own promoter. Mol Cell Biol 2001; 21:3472-81. [PMID: 11313473 PMCID: PMC100269 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.21.10.3472-3481.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Introns 2 and 4 of the psbA gene of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplasts (Cr.psbA2 and Cr.psbA4, respectively) contain large free-standing open reading frames (ORFs). We used transformation of an intronless-psbA strain (IL) to test whether these introns undergo homing. Each intron, plus short exon sequences, was cloned into a chloroplast expression vector in both orientations and then cotransformed into IL along with a spectinomycin resistance marker (16S rrn). For Cr.psbA2, the sense construct gave nearly 100% cointegration of the intron whereas the antisense construct gave 0%, consistent with homing. For Cr.psbA4, however, both orientations produced highly efficient cointegration of the intron. Efficient cointegration of Cr.psbA4 also occurred when the intron was introduced as a restriction fragment lacking any known promoter. Deletion of most of the ORF, however, abolished cointegration of the intron, consistent with homing. The Cr.psbA4 constructs also contained a 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea resistance marker in exon 5, which was always present when the intron integrated, thus demonstrating exon coconversion. Remarkably, primary selection for this marker gave >100-fold more transformants (>10,000/microgram of DNA) than did the spectinomycin resistance marker. A trans homing assay was developed for Cr.psbA4; the ORF-minus intron integrated when the ORF was cotransformed on a separate plasmid. This assay was used to identify an intronic region between bp -88 and -194 (relative to the ORF) that stimulated homing and contained a possible bacterial (-10, -35)-type promoter. Primer extension analysis detected a transcript that could originate from this promoter. Thus, this mobile, self-splicing intron also contains its own promoter for ORF expression. The implications of these results for horizontal intron transfer and organelle transformation are discussed.
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- O W Odom
- Section of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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Heifetz PB, Förster B, Osmond CB, Giles LJ, Boynton JE. Effects of acetate on facultative autotrophy in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii assessed by photosynthetic measurements and stable isotope analyses. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2000; 122:1439-45. [PMID: 10759539 PMCID: PMC58978 DOI: 10.1104/pp.122.4.1439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/1999] [Accepted: 12/06/1999] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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The green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii can grow photoautotrophically utilizing CO(2), heterotrophically utilizing acetate, and mixotrophically utilizing both carbon sources. Growth of cells in increasing concentrations of acetate plus 5% CO(2) in liquid culture progressively reduced photosynthetic CO(2) fixation and net O(2) evolution without effects on respiration, photosystem II efficiency (as measured by chlorophyll fluorescence), or growth. Using the technique of on-line oxygen isotope ratio mass spectrometry, we found that mixotrophic growth in acetate is not associated with activation of the cyanide-insensitive alternative oxidase pathway. The fraction of carbon biomass resulting from photosynthesis, determined by stable carbon isotope ratio mass spectrometry, declined dramatically (about 50%) in cells grown in acetate with saturating light and CO(2). Under these conditions, photosynthetic CO(2) fixation and O(2) evolution were also reduced by about 50%. Some growth conditions (e.g. limiting light, high acetate, solid medium in air) virtually abolished photosynthetic carbon gain. These effects of acetate were exacerbated in mutants with slowed electron transfer through the D1 reaction center protein of photosystem II or impaired chloroplast protein synthesis. Therefore, in mixotrophically grown cells of C. reinhardtii, interpretations of the effects of environmental or genetic manipulations of photosynthesis are likely to be confounded by acetate in the medium.
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- P B Heifetz
- Developmental Cellular and Molecular Biology Group, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-1000, USA.
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de Vitry C, Vallon O. Mutants of Chlamydomonas: tools to study thylakoid membrane structure, function and biogenesis. Biochimie 1999; 81:631-43. [PMID: 10433117 DOI: 10.1016/s0300-9084(99)80120-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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The unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a model system for the study of photosynthesis and chloroplast biogenesis. C. reinhardtii has a photosynthesis apparatus similar to that of higher plants and it grows at rapid rate (generation time about 8 h). It is a facultative phototroph, which allows the isolation of mutants unable to perform photosynthesis and its sexual cycle allows a variety of genetic studies. Transformation of the nucleus and chloroplast genomes is easily performed. Gene transformation occurs mainly by homologous recombination in the chloroplast and heterologous recombination in the nucleus. Mutants are precious tools for studies of thylakoid membrane structure, photosynthetic function and assembly. Photosynthesis mutants affected in the biogenesis of a subunit of a protein complex usually lack the entire complex; this pleiotropic effect has been used in the identification of the other subunits, in the attribution of spectroscopic signals and also as a 'genetic cleaning' process which facilitates both protein complex purification, absorption spectroscopy studies or freeze-fracture analysis. The cytochrome b6f complex is not required for the growth of C. reinhardtii, unlike the case of photosynthetic prokaryotes in which the cytochrome complex is also part of the respiratory chain, and can be uniquely studied in Chlamydomonas by genetic approaches. We describe in greater detail the use of Chlamydomonas mutants in the study of this complex.
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- C de Vitry
- Laboratoire de Physiologie Membranaire et Moléculaire du Chloroplaste, CNRS-UPR 1261, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris, France
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Bertoluzza A, Bonora S, Fini G, Morelli MA. Effects of the herbicide prometryn on the physicochemical properties of artificial model membranes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1999. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9063(199902)55:2<147::aid-ps864>3.0.co;2-f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Holloway SP, Herrin DL. Processing of a composite large subunit rRNA. Studies with chlamydomonas mutants deficient in maturation of the 23s-like rrna. THE PLANT CELL 1998; 10:1193-206. [PMID: 9668137 PMCID: PMC144049 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.10.7.1193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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(Cr.LSU). Little is known of the cis and trans requirements or of the processing pathway for this essential RNA. Previous work showed that the ribosome-deficient ac20 mutant overaccumulates an unspliced large subunit (LSU) RNA, suggesting that it might be a splicing mutant. To elucidate the molecular basis of the ac20 phenotype, a detailed analysis of the rrn transcripts in ac20 and wild-type cells was performed. The results indicate that processing of the ITSs, particularly ITS-1, is inefficient in ac20 and that ITS processing occurs after splicing. Deletion of the Cr.LSU intron from ac20 also did not alleviate the mutant phenotype. Thus, the primary defect in ac20 is not splicing but most likely is associated with ITS processing. A splicing deficiency was studied by transforming wild-type cells with rrnL genes containing point mutations in the intron core. Heteroplasmic transformants were obtained in most cases, except for P4 helix mutants; these strains grew slowly, were light sensitive, and had an RNA profile indicative of inefficient splicing. Transcript analysis in the P4 mutants also indicated that ITS processing can occur on an unspliced precursor, although with reduced efficiency. These latter results indicate that although there is not an absolutely required order for LSU processing, there does seem to be a preferred order that results in efficient processing in vivo.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Chlamydomonas reinhardtii/genetics
- Chlamydomonas reinhardtii/growth & development
- Chlamydomonas reinhardtii/metabolism
- Chloroplasts/metabolism
- DNA, Ribosomal/metabolism
- Introns
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Oligonucleotide Probes
- RNA, Plant/biosynthesis
- RNA, Plant/chemistry
- RNA, Plant/genetics
- RNA, Ribosomal/biosynthesis
- RNA, Ribosomal/chemistry
- RNA, Ribosomal/genetics
- RNA, Ribosomal, 23S/biosynthesis
- RNA, Ribosomal, 23S/chemistry
- RNA, Ribosomal, 23S/genetics
- Sequence Deletion
- Transcription, Genetic
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- S P Holloway
- Department of Botany and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78713, USA
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Recent advances in the development of techniques for the manipulation of gene structure
in vitro
and genetic transformation of plants have brought the goal of directed genetic modification of RuBP carboxylase-oxygenase (Rubisco) within grasp. Genes from both prokaryotic and eukaryotic species have been cloned, sequenced and expressed in
Escherichia coli
, and in several instances this has resulted in the production of large quantities of fully functional enzyme. Several specifically-modified enzymes have been produced by site-directed mutagenesis of a cloned gene and the effects of the mutations evaluated following expression of the modified genes in
E. coli
. Thus, there are no major technical barriers to the creation and analysis of modified enzymes. A number of new opportunities now exist to explore the structural basis of naturally occurring differences in kinetic constants of the enzymes from diverse taxonomic sources. The recent report of chloroplast transformation mediated by the Ti plasmid has also raised the possibility that, if useful natural variation can be identified, genes for both the large and small subunits of the enzyme may eventually be transferred between species. However, the opportunities for rational application of mutagenesis
in vitro
in the creation of useful or informative variants of the enzyme is currently limited by lack of information about tertiary structure and the role of specific residues in catalysis.
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Deshpande NN, Bao Y, Herrin DL. Evidence for light/redox-regulated splicing of psbA pre-RNAs in Chlamydomonas chloroplasts. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 1997; 3:37-48. [PMID: 8990397 PMCID: PMC1369460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Efficient splicing in vivo of most self-splicing group I introns is believed to require proteins, raising the possibility that splicing could be regulated; however, examples of such regulation have been lacking. The Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplast psbA gene contains four large group I introns that self-splice efficiently in vitro, but only under nonphysiological conditions. The psbA gene encodes the D1 protein of photosystem II, which is synthesized at very high rates in the light in order to replace photodamaged protein. We show that psbA pre-mRNAs, containing one or more introns, accumulate in wild-type cells in the dark, apparently due to rate-limited splicing. Analysis of the pre-RNAs indicates that splicing of the four introns does not follow a strict order. Exposure of cells to light induced rapid (15-20 min) decreases in precursor levels of approximately 3-5-fold (depending on the intron), which were accompanied by transient increases in free intron levels. Because light also stimulated psbA transcription approximately 2-fold over the same period, the data suggests that light increases the splicing efficiency of psbA introns approximately 6-10-fold. Similar estimates of the extent of light stimulation were obtained by analyzing precursor decay rates in the presence of actinomycin D. The effect of light is specific for psbA introns, because levels of unspliced 23S pre-RNA did not decrease. The light-induced increase in psbA pre-RNA processing was abolished by inhibitors of photosynthetic electron transport, but not by the ATP synthesis inhibitor, carbonylcyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone, which actually promoted pre-RNA processing in the dark. Finally, nonphotosynthetic mutants, including the tscA-lacking photosystem I mutant, H13, did not show evidence of light-stimulated RNA processing. However, the light response was restored in photosynthetic transformants of H13 that had been complemented with the tscA gene. These data suggest strongly that light coordinately stimulates splicing of all four psbA introns. Moreover, they demonstrate that this response to light is mediated by photosynthetic electron transport. The implications of these results for the regulation of psbA gene expression are discussed.
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- N N Deshpande
- Department of Botany, University of Texas at Austin, 78713, USA
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Alfonso M, Pueyo JJ, Gaddour K, Etienne AL, Kirilovsky D, Picorel R. Induced new mutation of D1 serine-268 in soybean photosynthetic cell cultures produced atrazine resistance, increased stability of S2QB- and S3QB- states, and increased sensitivity to light stress. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1996; 112:1499-508. [PMID: 8972596 PMCID: PMC158082 DOI: 10.1104/pp.112.4.1499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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We have isolated several herbicide-resistant cell lines from photosynthetic cell suspensions of soybean (Glycine max) that possessed different levels of herbicide resistance, photosystem II activity, and chlorophyll a/b ratio. We have further studied the STR7 mutant, which showed the highest level of resistance to atrazine as well as a cross-resistance to 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1, 1-dimethylurea (50- and 3-fold, respectively, compared with the wild type). Sequencing of the psbA gene (coding for the D1 polypeptide of photosystem II) from this mutant revealed a single change, serine-268 to proline, in the D1 protein. To our knowledge, this substitution has not previously been described in any photosynthetic organism. In addition to affecting atrazine resistance, this single amino acid change caused a decrease in the electron transfer rate between the secondary acceptors QA and QB and a stabilization of the S2QB- and S3QB- states. The mutant also showed a larger antenna size, an increase in non-QB-reducing centers, and a higher sensitivity to light stress. The unusual stability of the S2QB- and S3QB- states indicates that STR7 belongs to a new class of QB-site mutants.
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- M Alfonso
- Estación Experimental de Aula Dei, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Zaragoza, Spain
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Hauser CR, Gillham NW, Boynton JE. Translational regulation of chloroplast genes. Proteins binding to the 5'-untranslated regions of chloroplast mRNAs in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:1486-97. [PMID: 8576143 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.3.1486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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We have examined the effects of illumination, carbon source, and levels of chloroplast protein synthesis on trans-acting proteins that bind to the leaders of five representative chloroplast mRNAs. The accumulation of these five chloroplast mRNAs and the proteins they encode were measured in cells grown under identical conditions. Extracts from all cell types examined contain a minimum set of six chloroplast 5'-untranslated region (UTR)-binding proteins (81, 62, 56, 47, 38, and 15 kDa). Fractionation results suggest that multiple forms of the 81-, 62-, and 47-kDa proteins may exist. A 36-kDa protein was found in all cells except those deficient in chloroplast protein synthesis. Binding of the 81-, 47-, and 38-kDa proteins to the rps12 leader is effectively competed by the atpB or rbcL 5'-UTRs, indicating that the same proteins bind to all three leaders. In contrast, these three proteins do not bind to the nuclear-encoded alpha-1 tubulin leader, which bound novel proteins of 110, 70, and 43 kDa. Cis-acting sequences within the 5'-UTRs of two chloroplast mRNAs (rps7 and atpB) have been identified which are protected from digestion by RNase T1 by extracts enriched for the 81-, 47-, and 38-kDa proteins.
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- C R Hauser
- Department of Botany, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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Heiss S, Johanningmeier U. Analysis of a herbicide resistant mutant obtained by transformation of the Chlamydomonas chloroplast. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 1992; 34:311-317. [PMID: 24408782 DOI: 10.1007/bf00033448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/1992] [Accepted: 07/23/1992] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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A herbicide resistant Chlamydomonas double mutant (I219A264) has been obtained by transforming the psbA deletion mutant FuD7 with a cloned psbA gene fragment containing mutations in codons 219 and 264. Copies from both the recipient (FuD7) genome and the genome carrying the mutated psbA gene persist in the transformant. This stable heteroplasmic state appears to be required for photoautotrophic growth. Comparison of resistance profiles for classical and phenol-type inhibitors of the double mutant and the corresponding single mutants demonstrates independent, additive contributions of both amino acids to herbicide binding. The approach chosen here to modify the psbA gene should be useful in those cases where consequences of psbA gene manipulations are not predictable with respect to inhibitor resistance.
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- S Heiss
- Lehrstuhl für Biochemie der Pflanzen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-4630, Bochum, Germany
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Whitelegge JP, Jewess P, Pickering MG, Gerrish C, Camilleri P, Bowyer JR. Sequence analysis of photoaffinity-labelled peptides derived by proteolysis of photosystem-2 reaction centres from thylakoid membranes treated with [14C]azidoatrazine. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1992; 207:1077-84. [PMID: 1499553 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1992.tb17144.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Photosystem-2 reaction centres were prepared from pea thylakoid membranes that had been photoaffinity labelled with [14C]-azidoatrazine (2-azido-4-ethylamino-6-isopropylamino-s-triazine), a derivative of the herbicide atrazine which binds to the secondary plastoquinone electron-acceptor site of photosystem 2. SDS/PAGE of the 14C-labelled reaction centres followed by fluorography revealed photoaffinity-labelled proteins of apparent molecular masses 30 kDa and 55 kDa, which corresponded to the D1 polypeptide and to an SDS-stable heterodimer of the D1 and D2 polypeptides, respectively. To obtain sequence information on the site of photoaffinity labelling, an 8-kDa photoaffinity-labelled peptide, generated by proteolysis of the reaction-centre material with trypsin, was isolated and purified to apparent homogeneity using reverse-phase and size-exclusion HPLC techniques. The amino terminus of the photoaffinity-labelled peptide was determined to be Leu-Gly-Met-Arg-Pro-Xaa-Ile-Ala-Val-Ala-Tyr by Edman sequencing. This corresponds to the amino terminus of a predicted tryptic peptide of D1 and confirms that azidoatrazine photolabels the D1 polypeptide of photosystem 2 in the region Leu137-Arg225. Chymotrypsin/trypsin digestion of photoaffinity-labelled reaction centres followed by reverse-phase HPLC was used to isolate a smaller photoaffinity-labelled peptide. On Edman sequencing, Ser-Ala were identified as the first two residues and 14C was released on the third cycle, after which further degradation was blocked. The two potential peptide fragments with Ser-Ala at the amino terminus in the region Leu137-Arg225 are Ser148-Ala-Pro and Ser212-Ala-Met. Proline is an unlikely target for reaction with the nitrene of the photoactivated azidoatrazine, and the data are thus consistent with Met214 as the site of photoaffinity labelling on D1 when thylakoid membranes are illuminated with ultraviolet irradiation in the presence of [14C]azidoatrazine.
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- J P Whitelegge
- Department of Biochemistry, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, Surrey, England
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Johnson CH, Kondo T, Hastings JW. Action Spectrum for Resetting the Circadian Phototaxis Rhythm in the CW15 Strain of Chlamydomonas: II. Illuminated Cells. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1991; 97:1122-9. [PMID: 16668498 PMCID: PMC1081131 DOI: 10.1104/pp.97.3.1122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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The action spectrum for resetting the phase of the circadian clock in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is different depending upon whether the light stimuli are presented to cells that were in darkness versus dim illumination before stimulation. In this report, we show that phase resetting of illuminated cells appears to be mediated by components of the photosynthetic apparatus. This conclusion is based upon the action spectrum for phase-shifting illuminated cells (which looks like that for photosynthesis) and upon the fact that inhibitors of photosynthetic electron transport also inhibit the light-induced phase shift of illuminated cells. Both of these characteristics differ from that of cells taken from darkness. We, therefore, believe that at least two resetting pathways for this circadian clock exist and that both of these pathways are ecologically significant.
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- C H Johnson
- Department of Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235
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Przibilla E, Heiss S, Johanningmeier U, Trebst A. Site-specific mutagenesis of the D1 subunit of photosystem II in wild-type Chlamydomonas. THE PLANT CELL 1991; 3:169-74. [PMID: 1840907 PMCID: PMC159989 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.3.2.169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The structure and functional mode of photosystem II reaction center protein D1 can be studied by analyzing the effects of amino acid substitutions within the binding niche for QB, the second stable electron acceptor of photosystem II, on herbicide binding. Here we report on site-directed mutagenesis of the psbA gene coding for the D1 protein in the unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. The chloroplasts of wild-type cells were transformed using the particle gun. The plasmids introduced carried an in vitro mutated fragment of the psbA gene. We obtained a double mutant with replacements of amino acids 264 and 266 and a triple mutant having an additional substitution in position 259. The sensitivities of both mutants toward several types of herbicides are given and compared with those of a mutant having only a substitution at position 264.
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- E Przibilla
- Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Lehrstuhl für Biochemie der Pflanzen, Federal Republic of Germany
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Hart JJ, Stemler A. Similar Photosynthetic Performance in Low Light-Grown Isonuclear Triazine-Resistant and -Susceptible Brassica napus L. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1990; 94:1295-300. [PMID: 16667832 PMCID: PMC1077377 DOI: 10.1104/pp.94.3.1295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Triazine-resistant plants grown under moderate to high photon flux density (PFD) conditions exhibit decreased photon yield, decreased light-saturated O(2) evolution and slower growth than triazine-susceptible plants. In this study we tested the hypothesis that the comparable growth previously observed in resistant and susceptible Brassica napus L. lines grown under low PFD was accompanied by comparable photon yield and light-saturated O(2) evolution. We measured photon yield, O(2) flash yield, fluorescence decay kinetics, fluorescence transient kinetics, and quenching components, F(v)/F(m) and light saturated O(2) evolution in leaf disks of low PFD-grown triazine-resistant and susceptible B. napus isogenic lines. Results indicated that slow electron transfer from the primary to secondary quinone electron acceptors of photosystem II was still present in the resistant line but photon yield and light-saturated O(2) evolution were similar in the two B. napus lines. We conclude that the alteration in the D1 protein that confers resistance does not necessarily cause decreased photosynthetic performance. Decreased photon yield in resistant plants grown at high PFD is not a direct consequence of the alteration in D1, but represents secondary damage.
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- J J Hart
- Department of Botany, University of California, Davis, California 95616
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Rey P, Eymery F, Peltier G. Atrazine and diuron resistant plants from photoautotrophic protoplast-derived cultures of Nicotiana plumbaginifolia. PLANT CELL REPORTS 1990; 9:241-244. [PMID: 24226817 DOI: 10.1007/bf00232292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/1990] [Revised: 06/16/1990] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Atrazine and diuron resistant clones were isolated from diploid photoautotrophic protoplastderived colonies of Nicotiana plumbaginifolia. Protoplasts were mutagenised with 0.1 mM N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea and colonies were screened for resistance after plating. Selection of calli was carried out on their ability to grow and green on a selective medium containing either atrazine or diuron. Plants were regenerated from most tolerant calli. Herbicide spray showed that plants of 6 and 4 clones were resistant to atrazine and diuron, respectively.
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- P Rey
- Service de Radio-agronomie, Département de Biologie, C.E.N. de Cadarache, F-13108, Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France
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Ohad N, Hirschberg J. A similar structure of the herbicide binding site in photosystem II of plants and cyanobacteria is demonstrated by site specific mutagenesis of the psbA gene. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 1990; 23:73-79. [PMID: 24420994 DOI: 10.1007/bf00030065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/1988] [Accepted: 02/13/1989] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Many herbicides inhibit the photosynthetic electron transfer in photosystem II by binding to the polypeptide D1. A point mutation in the chloroplast gene psbA, which leads to a change of the amino acid residue 264 of D1 from serine to glycine, is responsible for atrazine resistance in higher plants. We have changed serine 264 to glycine in Synechococcus PCC7942 and compared its phenotype to a mutant with a serine to alanine shift in the same position. The results show that glycine at position 264 in D1 gives rise to a similar phenotype in cyanobacteria and in higher plants, indicating a similar structure of the binding site for herbicides and for the quinone QB in the two systems. A possible mode of binding of phenyl-urea herbicides to D1 is predicted from the difference in herbicidal cross-resistance between glycine and alanine substitutions of serine 264.
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- N Ohad
- Department of Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel
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Ajlani G, Meyer I, Vernotte C, Astier C. Mutation in phenol-type herbicide resistance maps within the psbA gene in Synechocystis 6714. FEBS Lett 1989; 246:207-10. [PMID: 2495986 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(89)80284-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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A Synechocytis 6714 mutant resistant to the phenol-type herbicide ioxynil was isolated and characterized. Sensitivity to DCMU and atrazine was tf measured in whole cells and isolated thylakoids. The mutant presents the same sensitivity to atrazine as the wild type and a slightly increased sensitivity to DCMU. A point mutation has been found at codon 266 in the psbAI coding locus (AAC to ACC) resulting in an amino acid change from asparagine to threonine in the D1 protein.
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- G Ajlani
- ER 407, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Erickson JM, Pfister K, Rahire M, Togasaki RK, Mets L, Rochaix JD. Molecular and biophysical analysis of herbicide-resistant mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: structure-function relationship of the photosystem II D1 polypeptide. THE PLANT CELL 1989; 1:361-71. [PMID: 2535507 PMCID: PMC159768 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.1.3.361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Plants and green algae can develop resistance to herbicides that block photosynthesis by competing with quinones in binding to the chloroplast photosystem II (PSII) D1 polypeptide. Because numerous herbicide-resistant mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii with different patterns of resistance to such herbicides are readily isolated, this system provides a powerful tool for examining the interactions of herbicides and endogenous quinones with the photosynthetic membrane, and for studying the structure-function relationship of the D1 protein with respect to PSII electron transfer. Here we report the results of DNA sequence analysis of the D1 gene from four mutants not previously characterized at the molecular level, the correlation of changes in specific amino acid residues of the D1 protein with levels of resistance to the herbicides atrizine, diuron, and bromacil, and the kinetics of fluorescence decay for each mutant, which show that changes at two different amino acid residues dramatically slow PSII electron transfer. Our analyses, which identify a region of 57 amino acids of the D1 polypeptide involved in herbicide binding and which define a D1 binding niche for the second quinone acceptor, QB of PSII, provide a strong basis of support for structural and functional models of the PSII reaction center.
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- J M Erickson
- Department of Biology, University of California, Los Angeles 90024
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Sigematsu Y, Sato F, Yamada Y. The mechanism of herbicide resistance in tobacco cells with a new mutation in the q(b) protein. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1989; 89:986-92. [PMID: 16666653 PMCID: PMC1055955 DOI: 10.1104/pp.89.3.986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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A new mutant of the psbA gene conferring resistance to 2-chloro-4-(ethylamino)-6-(isopropylamino)-s-triazine (atrazine) was obtained by selection of photomixotrophic tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum cv Samsun NN) cells. The 264th codon AGT (serine) in the wild psbA gene was changed to ACT (threonine) in these mutant tobacco cells. All other higher plants resistant to atrazine exhibit a change to GGT (glycine) in this codon. Measurements of Hill reaction activity and chlorophyll fluorescence showed that the threonine 264-containing plastoquinone serving as secondary stable electron acceptor of PSII (Q(B) protein) had not only strong resistance to triazine-type herbicides but also moderate resistance to substituted urea-type herbicides. Threonine-type Q(B) protein showed especially strong resistance to methoxylamino derivatives of the substituted urea herbicides. The projected secondary structures of the mutant Q(B) proteins indicate that the cross-resistance of threonine 264 Q(B) protein to triazine and urea herbicides is mainly due to a conformational change of the binding site for the herbicides. However, the glycine 264 Q(B) protein is resistant to only triazine herbicides because of the absence of an hydroxyl group and not because of a conformational change.
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- Y Sigematsu
- Research Center for Cell and Tissue Culture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606, Japan
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Blowers AD, Bogorad L, Shark KB, Sanford JC. Studies on Chlamydomonas chloroplast transformation: foreign DNA can be stably maintained in the chromosome. THE PLANT CELL 1989; 1:123-132. [PMID: 2535460 PMCID: PMC159743 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.1.1.123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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As shown originally by Boynton and co-workers (Boynton, J.E., Gillham, N.W., Harris, E.H., Hosler, J.P., Johnson, A.M., Jones, A.R., Randolph-Anderson, B.L., Robertson, D., Klein, T.M., Shark, K.B., and Sanford, J.C. [1988]. Science 240, 1534-1538), a nonphotosynthetic, acetate-requiring mutant strain of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii with a 2.5-kilobase pair deletion in the chloroplast Bam 10 restriction fragment region that removes the 3' half of the atpB gene and a portion of one inverted repeat can be transformed to photosynthetic competency following bombardment with microprojectiles coated with wild-type Bam 10 DNA. We have found that assorted other circular plasmids, single-strand DNA circles, or linear, duplex DNA molecules containing the wild-type atpB gene can also complement the same mutant. DNA gel blot hybridization analysis of all such transformants indicates that the complementing DNA has integrated into the chromosome at the atpB locus and suggests that a copy-correction mechanism operating between the inverted repeats maintains sequence identity in this region. Sequences from the intact inverted repeat may be recruited to restore the incomplete copy when exogenous DNA with only a portion of the deleted sequence is introduced. Furthermore, a foreign, unselected-for, chimeric gene flanked by chloroplast DNA sequences can be integrated and maintained stably in the chloroplast chromosome. The bacterial neomycin phosphotransferase structural gene fused to the maize chloroplast promoter for the large subunit gene of ribulose-1,5-biphosphate carboxylase (rbcL) has been integrated into the inverted repeat region of the Bam10 restriction fragment. RNA transcripts that hybridize to the introduced foreign gene have been identified.
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- A D Blowers
- Biological Laboratories, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
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Jursinic PA, Pearcy RW. Determination of the Rate Limiting Step for Photosynthesis in a Nearly Isonuclear Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) Biotype Resistant to Atrazine. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1988; 88:1195-200. [PMID: 16666442 PMCID: PMC1055739 DOI: 10.1104/pp.88.4.1195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Plant biotypes that are resistant to S-triazines under most conditions often grow less vigorously and have lower quantum yields and lower maximum rates of photosynthesis. The photosynthetic reactions responsible for these effects were identified in whole leaves and thylakoids of nearly isonuclear lines of oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.). The lower quantum yield was a result of poor efficiency in the use of separated charge at the photosystem II reaction center. Charge separation occurred normally, but over 30% of the charges recombined instead of being used for oxygen evolution and for reduction capacity in photosystem I. The lower maximum rate of photosynthesis in the resistant biotype was set by the transfer of electrons between the primary, Q(A), and secondary, Q(B), acceptors of photosystem II. This charge transfer reaction became rate limiting in resistant biotypes. The decreased quantum yield and decreased maximum rate of photosynthesis are both believed to be consequences of changes in the 32 kilodalton herbicide binding protein. As such, it is likely that these traits will not be genetically separable.
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- P A Jursinic
- Department of Botany, University of California, Davis, California 95616
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Shinozaki K, Hayashida N, Sugiura M. Nicotiana chloroplast genes for components of the photosynthetic apparatus. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 1988; 18:7-31. [PMID: 24425159 DOI: 10.1007/bf00042978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/1987] [Accepted: 12/31/1987] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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In order to understand more fully chloroplast genetic systems, we have determined the complete nucleotide sequence (155, 844 bp) of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum var. Bright Yellow 4) chloroplast DNA. It contains two copies of an identical 25,339 bp inverted repeat, which are separated by 86, 684 bp and 18,482 bp single-copy regions. The genes for 4 different rRNAs, 30 different tRNAs, 44 different proteins and 9 other predicted protein-coding genes have been located. Fifteen different genes contain introns.Twenty-two genes for components of the photosynthetic apparatus have so far been identified. Most of the genes (except the gene for the large subunit of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase) code for thylakoid membrane proteins. Twenty of them are located in the large single-copy region and one gene for a 9-kd polypeptide of photosystem I is located in the small single-copy region. The gene for the 32-kd protein of photosystem II as well as the gene for the large subunit of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase have strong promoters and are transcribed monocistronically while the other genes are transcribed polycistronically. We have found that the predicted amino acid sequences of six DNA sequences resemble those of components of the respiratory-chain NADH dehydrogenase from human mitochondria. As these six sequences are highly transcribed in tobacco chloroplasts, they are probably genes for components of a chloroplast NADH dehydrogenase. These observations suggest the existence of a respiratory-chain in the chloroplast of higher plants.
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- K Shinozaki
- Center for Gene Research, Nagoya University, Chikusa, 464, Nagoya, Japan
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Sato F, Shigematsu Y, Yamada Y. Selection of an atrazine-resistant tobacco cell line having a mutant psbA gene. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1988; 214:358-60. [PMID: 3237212 DOI: 10.1007/bf00337736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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A mutant cell line that shows high resistance to the photosynthesis-inhibiting herbicide atrazine was selected from cultured photomixotrophic Nicotiana tabacum cv. Samsun NN cells by repeated exposure to toxic levels of the herbicide. This resistance was confirmed by measurements of Hill reaction activity in isolated thylakoid membranes. Nucleotide sequencing revealed that the resistant cell line had a point mutation in its chloroplast psbA gene. The 264th codon, AGT (serine) was changed to ACT (threonine) in this mutant. This new type of mutation also conferred moderate cross-resistance to diuron and subsequently was stable in the absence of continued selection pressure.
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- F Sato
- Research Center for Cell and Tissue Culture, Kyoto University, Japan
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Paddock ML, Rongey SH, Abresch EC, Feher G, Okamura MY. Reaction centers from three herbicide-resistant mutants of Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1: sequence analysis and preliminary characterization. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 1988; 17:75-96. [PMID: 24429662 DOI: 10.1007/bf00047682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/1987] [Accepted: 12/30/1987] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Many herbicides that inhibit photosynthesis in plants also inhibit photosynthesis in bacteria. We have isolated three mutants of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides that were selected for increased resistance to the herbicide terbutryne. All three mutants also showed increased resistance to the known electron transfer inhibitor o-phenanthroline. The primary structures of the mutants were determined by recombinant DNA techniques. All mutations were located on the gene coding for the L-subunit resulting in these changes Ile(229) → Met, Ser(223) → Pro and Tyr(222) → Gly. The mutations of Ser(223) is analogous to the mutation of Ser(264) in the D1 subunit of photosystem II in green plants, strengthening the functional analogy between D1 and the bacterial L-subunit. The changed amino acids of the mutant strains form part of the binding pocket for the secondary quinone, Q b . This is consistent with the idea that the herbicides are competitive inhibitors for the Q b binding site. The reaction centers of the mutants were characterized with respect to electron transfer rates, inhibition constants of terbutryne and o-phenanthroline, and binding constants of the quinone UQ0 and the inhibitors. By correlating these results with the three-dimensional structure obtained from x-ray analysis by Allen et al. (1987a, 1987b), the likely positions of o-phenanthroline and terbutryne were deduced. These correspond to the positions deduced by Michel et al. (1986a) for Rhodopseudomonas viridis.
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- M L Paddock
- Department of Physics-B-019, University of California, San Diego at La Jolla, 92093, CA, USA
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