Abstract
We explored photoprotective strategies in a cryptophyte alga Rhodomonas salina. This cryptophytic alga represents phototrophs where chlorophyll a/c antennas in thylakoids are combined with additional light-harvesting system formed by phycobiliproteins in the chloroplast lumen. The fastest response to excessive irradiation is induction of non-photochemical quenching (NPQ). The maximal NPQ appears already after 20 s of excessive irradiation. This initial phase of NPQ is sensitive to Ca2+ channel inhibitor (diltiazem) and disappears, also, in the presence of non-actin, an ionophore for monovalent cations. The prolonged exposure to high light of R. salina cells causes photoinhibition of photosystem II (PSII) that can be further enhanced when Ca2+ fluxes are inhibited by diltiazem. The light-induced reduction in PSII photochemical activity is smaller when compared with immotile diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. We explain this as a result of their different photoprotective strategies. Besides the protective role of NPQ, the motile R. salina also minimizes high light exposure by increased cell velocity by almost 25% percent (25% from 82 to 104 μm/s). We suggest that motility of algal cells might have a photoprotective role at high light because algal cell rotation around longitudinal axes changes continual irradiation to periodically fluctuating light.
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Abbreviations
- CAP:
-
chloramphenicol
- F M :
-
maximal chlorophyll a fluorescence for dark-adapted sample
- F M′:
-
maximal chlorophyll a fluorescence for light-adapted sample
- F M″:
-
maximal chlorophyll a fluorescence measured in the dark following short light period
- F V/F M :
-
maximal efficiency of PSII photochemistry
- NPQ:
-
non-photochemical quenching of fluorescence
- PSII:
-
photosystem II
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We want to thank Ondřej Prášil and Aurelie Crepin for critical reading of the manuscript. We want to acknoledge Jiří Šetlík for his long-term technical assistance during experiments and for skillful adaptation of biophysical instruments.
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This research project was supported by the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) (Grantová agentura České republiky) project GACR 16-10088S. The work at center ALGATECH has been supported by the institutional projects Algatech Plus (MSMT LO1416) and Algamic (CZ 1.05/2.1.00/19.0392) from the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport.
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Kaňa, R., Kotabová, E., Šedivá, B. et al. Photoprotective strategies in the motile cryptophyte alga Rhodomonas salina—role of non-photochemical quenching, ions, photoinhibition, and cell motility. Folia Microbiol 64, 691–703 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12223-019-00742-y
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