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. 1995 Jan;107(1):187–197. doi: 10.1104/pp.107.1.187

A Mutation in the D-de Loop of D1 Modifies the Stability of the S2QA- and S2QB- States in Photosystem II.

P Maenpaa 1, T Miranda 1, E Tyystjarvi 1, T Tyystjarvi 1, Govindjee 1, J M Ducruet 1, A L Etienne 1, D Kirilovsky 1
PMCID: PMC161184  PMID: 12228353

Abstract

Photosystem II electron transfer, charge stabilization, and photoinhibition were studied in three site-specific mutants of the D1 polypeptide of Synechocystis PCC 6803: E243K, E229D, and CA1 (deletion of three glutamates 242-244 and a substitution, glutamine-241 to histidine). The phenotypes of the E229D and E243K mutants were similar to that of the control strain (AR) in all of the studied aspects. The characteristics of CA1 were very different. Formate, which inhibits the QA- to QB- reaction, was severalfold less effective in CA1 than in AR. The S2QA- and S2QB- states were stabilized in CA1. It was previously shown that the electron transfer between QA- and QB was modified in CA1 (P Maenpaa, T. Kallio, P. Mulo, G. Salih, E.-M. Aro, E. Tyystjarvi, C. Jansson [1993] Plant Mol Biol 22: 1-12). A change in the redox potential of the QA/QA- couple, which renders the reoxidation of QA- by back or forward reactions more difficult, could explain the phenotype of CA1. Although the rates of photoinhibition measured as inhibition of oxygen evolution, Chl fluorescence quenching, and decrease of thermoluminescence B and Q bands were similar in AR and CA1, the CA1 strain more quickly reached a state from which the cells were unable to recover their activity. The results described in this paper suggest that a modification in the structure of the D-de loop of D1 could influence the properties of the couple QA/QA- in D2 and the mechanism of recovery from photoinhibition.

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