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  • Title: Chlorophyll alpha synthesis upon interruption and deletion of por coding for the light-dependent NADPH: protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase in a photosystem-I-less/chlL- strain of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
    Author: He Q, Brune D, Nieman R, Vermaas W.
    Journal: Eur J Biochem; 1998 Apr 01; 253(1):161-72. PubMed ID: 9578474.
    Abstract:
    The gene coding for the light-dependent NADPH:protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase (POR) was interrupted or deleted in a Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 strain lacking photosystem I (PS I) as well as ChlL, which takes part in light-independent catalysis of protochlorophyllide reduction. Interruption of por by a kanamycin-resistance cartridge between the codons for M263 and V264 (about 83% into the coding region) did not abolish POR activity, but resulted in a decrease in the protochlorophyllide-(PChlide)-binding capacity of POR. Deletion of por in the PS I-less/chlL- strain generated a mutant [PS I-less/chlL-/por (del)] which accumulated both monovinyl-PChlide and divinyl-PChlide and excreted PChlides into the medium. This mutant also synthesized small amounts of protochlorophyllide dihydrogeranylgeraniol ester (protochlorophyll) when it was grown under light-activated heterotrophic growth conditions. However, the mutant was still able to synthesize small amounts of normal chlorophyll a under weak continuous illumination, even though the quantum yield of chlorophyll a formation was reduced. Either protochlorophyll or PChlide reduction by an unspecific reductase or by a ChlB/ChlN complex could account for chlorophyll a synthesis in the PS I-less/chlL-/por (del) strain. Functional photosystem II (PS II) was assembled in this mutant, but the PS II/chlorophyll ratio was fourfold lower than in the PS I-less strain with normal chlorophyll synthesis. The PS I-less/chlL-/por (del) mutant had a 77-K fluorescence emission maximum at 685 nm but no peak or shoulder at 695 nm when the cells were excited at 435 nm. Much of the chlorophyll in the PS I-less/chlL-/por (del) mutant therefore seems to be associated with components other than PS II.
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