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- Title
Antisense Inhibition of the PsbX Protein Affects PSII Integrity in the Higher Plant Arabidopsis thaliana.
- Authors
José G. García-Cerdán; Dmitry Sveshnikov; David Dewez; Stefan Jansson; Christiane Funk; Wolfgang P. Schröder
- Abstract
PSII, the oxygen-evolving complex of photosynthetic organisms, contains an intriguingly large number of low molecular weight proteins. PsbX, one of these proteins, is ubiquitous in PSII complexes of cyanobacteria and plants. In previous studies, deletion of the PsbX protein in cyanobacteria has not resulted in clear phenotypic changes. Here we report the construction of an antisense (AS-PsbX) line in Arabidopsis thaliana with <10% of wild-type PsbX levels. AS-PsbX plants are capable of photoautotrophic growth, but biochemical, biophysical and immunological evidence demonstrates that reduction of PsbX contents leads to reduced levels of functional assembled PSII core complexes, while the light-harvesting antennae are not affected. In addition, levels of phosphorylation of the core proteins D1, D2 and CP43 are severely reduced in the antisense plants relative to their wild-type counterparts. We conclude that PsbX is important for accumulation of functional PSII.
- Subjects
ANTISENSE peptides; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; CYANOBACTERIA; MOLECULAR weights; PROTEINS; ARABIDOPSIS thaliana; PHOSPHORYLATION
- Publication
Plant & Cell Physiology, 2009, Vol 50, Issue 2, p191
- ISSN
0032-0781
- Publication type
Article