Abstract
The chloroplast response in the green alga Dunaliella salina to irradiance stress was investigated. Cells were grown under low light (LL) at 100 [mu]mol photons m-2 s-1 or high light (HL) at 2000 [mu]mol photons m-2 s-1 incident intensity. LL-grown cells had a low chlorophyll (Chl) a/b ratio, an abundance of light-harvesting complex II proteins (LHC-II), and a large Chl antenna size. HL-grown cells had a higher Chl a/b ratio, relatively fewer LHC-II, and a small Chl antenna size. The more abundant higher molecular mass subunits of the LHC-II (approximately 31 kD) were selectively depleted from the thylakoid membrane of HL-grown cells. Light-shift experiments defined the kinetics of change in the subunit composition of the LHC-II and suggested distinct mechanisms in the acclimation of thylakoids to HL or LL conditions. The results showed that irradiance exerts a differential regulation on the expression of various Lhcb genes. The specific polyclonal antibodies used in this work, raised against the purified LHC-II, cross-reacted with a polypeptide of approximately 20 kD in HL-grown samples. In this work we examined the dynamics of induction of this novel protein and discuss its function in terms of a chloroplast response to the level of irradiance.
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