RRC ID 21778
著者 Kumazaki S, Akari M, Hasegawa M.
タイトル Transformation of thylakoid membranes during differentiation from vegetative cell into heterocyst visualized by microscopic spectral imaging.
ジャーナル Plant Physiol
Abstract Some filamentous cyanobacteria carry out oxygenic photosynthesis in vegetative cells and nitrogen fixation in specialized cells known as heterocysts. Thylakoid membranes in vegetative cells contain photosystem I (PSI) and PSII, while those in heterocysts contain predominantly PSI. Therefore, the thylakoid membranes change drastically when differentiating from a vegetative cell into a heterocyst. The dynamics of these changes have not been sufficiently characterized in situ. Here, we used time-lapse fluorescence microspectroscopy to analyze cells of Anabaena variabilis under nitrogen deprivation at approximately 295 K. PSII degraded simultaneously with allophycocyanin, which forms the core of the light-harvesting phycobilisome. The other phycobilisome subunits that absorbed shorter wavelengths persisted for a few tens of hours in the heterocysts. The whole-thylakoid average concentration of PSI was similar in heterocysts and nearby vegetative cells. PSI was best quantified by selective excitation at a physiological temperature (approximately 295 K) under 785-nm continuous-wave laser irradiation, and detection of higher energy shifted fluorescence around 730 nm. Polar distribution of thylakoid membranes in the heterocyst was confirmed by PSI-rich fluorescence imaging. The findings and methodology used in this work increased our understanding of how photosynthetic molecular machinery is transformed to adapt to different nutrient environments and provided details of the energetic requirements for diazotrophic growth.
巻・号 161(3)
ページ 1321-33
公開日 2013-3-1
DOI 10.1104/pp.112.206680
PII pp.112.206680
PMID 23274239
PMC PMC3585599
MeSH Cyanobacteria / cytology* Cyanobacteria / growth & development* Intracellular Space / metabolism Microscopy, Fluorescence Microspectrophotometry / methods* Nitrogen Fixation Photons Photosystem I Protein Complex / metabolism Spectrometry, Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared Thylakoids / metabolism* Time Factors Time-Lapse Imaging
IF 6.902
引用数 18
WOS 分野 PLANT SCIENCES
リソース情報
藻類 NIES-2095