Abstract
In the cyanobacterium Synechococcus UTEX 625, the yield of chlorophyll a fluorescence decreased in response to the transport-mediated accumulation of intracellular inorganic carbon (CO2 + HCO3- + CO32- = dissolved inorganic carbon [DIC]) and subsequently increased to a near-maximum level following photosynthetic depletion of the DIC pool. When DIC accumulation was mediated by the active Na+-dependent HCO3- transport system, the initial rate of fluorescence quenching was found to be highly correlated with the initial rate of H14CO3- transport (r = 0.96), and the extent of fluorescence quenching was correlated with the size of the internal DIC pool (r = 0.99). Na+-dependent HCO3- transport-mediated accumulation of DIC caused fluorescence quenching in either the presence or absence of the CO2 fixation inhibitor glycolaldehyde, indicating that quenching was not due simply to NADP+ reduction. The concentration of Na+ required to attain one-half the maximum rate of H14CO3- transport, at 20 [mu]M external HCO3-, declined from 9 to 1 mM as the external pH increased from 8 to 9.6. A similar pH dependency was observed when fluorescence quenching was used to determine the kinetic constants for HCO3- transport. In cells capable of Na+-dependent HCO3- transport, both the initial rate and extent of fluorescence quenching increased with increasing external HCO3-, saturating at about 150 [mu]M. In contrast Na+-independent HCO3- transport-mediated fluorescence quenching saturated at an HCO3- concentration of about 10 [mu]M. It was concluded that measurement of chlorophyll a fluorescence emission provided a convenient, but indirect, means of following Na+-dependent HCO3- transport and accumulation in Synechococcus.
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