Abstract
In algae, it is well established that the pyrenoid, a component of the carbon-concentrating mechanism (CCM), is essential for efficient photosynthesis at low CO2. However, the signal that triggers the formation of the pyrenoid has remained elusive. Here, we show that, in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, the pyrenoid is strongly induced by hyperoxia, even at high CO2 or bicarbonate levels. These results suggest that the pyrenoid can be induced by a common product of photosynthesis specific to low CO2 or hyperoxia. Consistent with this view, the photorespiratory by-product, H2O2, induced the pyrenoid, suggesting that it acts as a signal. Finally, we show evidence for linkages between genetic variations in hyperoxia tolerance, H2O2 signaling, and pyrenoid morphologies.
Research organism: Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Introduction
The maximal primary productivity of algae is often determined by the efficiency of photosynthesis, which is strongly impacted by environmental factors. In turn, the products of photosynthesis can also impact local environmental conditions, leading to feedback- (or self-) limitations (Livansky, 1996; Pulz, 2001; Raso et al., 2012; Torzillo et al., 1998; Vonshak et al., 1996; Weissman et al., 1988). One important, but relatively little studied feedback factor is hyperoxia, which results when O2 is emitted as a by-product of photosynthesis more rapidly than it diffuses away or is consumed by respiration. Microalgae cultures are often observed with dissolved oxygen levels of up to 100–400% of air – or even higher (Peng et al., 2013), especially when the local supply of inorganic carbon (Ci) is high but consumption or diffusion of O2 slow. In some species, hyperoxia constitutes a major hurdle in achieving low cost, highly productive micro-algae farms (Peng et al., 2013). Hyperoxia has been directly associated with loss of productivity in a wide range of algal and cyanobacterial species, including Nannochroposis (Raso et al., 2012), Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Kliphuis et al., 2011), Neochloris oleabundans (Peng et al., 2016a; Sousa et al., 2012), Chlorella sorokiniana (Ugwu et al., 2007), and Spirulina (Vonshak et al., 1996).
Despite being recognized as a problem, how hyperoxia interferes with photosynthetic growth is not fully understood, and various mechanisms have been proposed, including reactive oxygen (ROS)-induced damage to the photosynthetic machinery, membrane structure, DNA, and other cellular components (Marquez et al., 1995; Santabarbara et al., 2002; Ugwu et al., 2007). Another mechanism by which high O2 has been proposed to decrease productivity is photorespiration, a process initiated when the ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (rubisco) enzyme fixes O2 rather than CO2, resulting in the production of the toxic side product phosphoglycolate, which is detoxified through the photorespiratory pathway, at the cost of lost energy and the release of fixed carbon (Bauwe et al., 2010). Oxygenation of rubisco can also result in the formation of rubisco inhibitors (Kim and Portis, 2004) that can further slow photosynthesis. If rubisco becomes inactivated, then ROS accumulation can lead to chlorosis and cell death, particularly in high light (Spreitzer and Mets, 1981).
Because photorespiration depends on competition between CO2 and O2 at rubisco, it can also contribute to loss of productivity under low inorganic carbon (Wang et al., 2015). The current atmospheric CO2 concentration is well below the saturated concentration for rubisco’s carboxylase activity (Raven et al., 2008) and CO2 diffuses through aquatic environments 10,000 times slower than in air (Moroney and Ynalvez, 2007). Thus, many aquatic phototrophs, including the chlorophyte Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, possess carbon concentrating mechanisms (CCMs) that concentrate CO2 above its KM at rubisco, which has been reported to be 29 µM (Jordan and Ogren, 1981) to 57 µM (Berry et al., 1976), in order to increase the relative rates of carboxylation relative to oxygenation (Aizawa and Miyachi, 1986; Badger et al., 1980).
The expression and function of green algal CCMs in eukaryotic algae is highly regulated; cells grown on or below air levels of CO2 (0.04%) develop active CCMs (Aizawa and Miyachi, 1986; Badger et al., 1980), whereas those grown with high CO2 levels lack them, and thus show low apparent affinities for CO2. Cells grown at high CO2 and rapidly transferred to low CO2 show strong inhibition of photosynthesis (Badger et al., 1980; Spalding et al., 1983) until the CCM is induced and activated (Aizawa and Miyachi, 1986; Badger et al., 1980; Manuel and Moroney, 1988). Induction can then result in about 25 % of all genes being affected (Fang et al., 2012). It is thought that this acclimation is mediated by some mechanism in the cell to sense CO2 availability, although CCM1 (also known as CIA5), the regulatory gene and protein thought to control the induction of the CCM in Chlamydomonas, is expressed at both high and low CO2 conditions (Fukuzawa et al., 2001). Analysis of the dark-to-light transition in synchronized Chlamydomonas cells reveals that mechanisms, independent of gene transcription of known CCM components, are likely to play a role in the CCM’s induction (Mitchell et al., 2014). The CCM in Chlorophytes involves a large number of components, including proteins that serve enzymatic and structural functions as well as a starch sheath that surrounds the pyrenoid, forming a subcellular compartment which acts as a trap to concentrate pumped inorganic carbon near localized rubisco (Mackinder et al., 2017; Ramazanov et al., 1994; Wang et al., 2015).
Pyrenoids are thought to have evolved multiple times (Barrett et al., 2021; Mackinder et al., 2016; Meyer et al., 2020a). The vast majority of data on pyrenoid formation is based on Chlamydomonas, where the pyrenoid forms by liquid-liquid phase separation (Banani et al., 2016; Barrett et al., 2021; Wunder et al., 2018), and several lines of evidence suggest that across the diverse lineages liquid-liquid phase separation is an integral part of pyrenoid formation (Barrett et al., 2021). Although across algal lineages it appears that rubisco catalytic properties are CCM dependent, it remains difficult to differentiate limitations in carbon uptake versus the leakiness of CO2 as the selective pressure operating on rubisco; more detailed physiological experiments are needed to deduce these and other competing processes (Goudet et al., 2020). In Chlamydomonas, recent studies have indicated that a correctly formed starch sheath is required for normal pyrenoid operation of the CCM (Itakura et al., 2019; Toyokawa et al., 2020), although one study (Villarejo et al., 1996) had called that into question. Besides starch, the sheath contains several proteins which appear to be distributed over or in close proximity to the starch plates (Mackinder et al., 2017). The functional implication of these proteins, and their distribution patterns, remains unclear (Toyokawa et al., 2020). The starch plates are penetrated by tubule-like extensions of the thylakoid membranes, which are thought to supply CO2 to the trapped rubisco by dehydration of luminal HCO3- (Engel et al., 2015; Mitra et al., 2004; Moroney and Ynalvez, 2007). How the organelle’s subcompartments of membrane tubules, surrounding phase separated rubisco matrix, and peripheral starch sheath are all held together is unknown (Meyer et al., 2020b). Although, it has recently been found that some pyrenoid proteins share a sequence motif that is necessary to target proteins to the pyrenoid and bind to rubisco (Meyer et al., 2020b).
Extensive genetic and biochemical studies have identified a large number of components essential for CCM function (Goodenough and Levine, 1970; Henk et al., 1995; Itakura et al., 2019; Spalding et al., 1983; Toyokawa et al., 2020). Of particular interest to the current work are factors that contribute to the pyrenoid compartment itself, especially those that affect the localization of rubisco within its starch sheath or those that modify the structure of the starch sheath. A range of mutants in diverse genetic components fail to form pyrenoids (Goodenough and Levine, 1970; Henk et al., 1995; Spreitzer et al., 1985), or have altered pyrenoid ultrastructure with disorganized or missing starch sheaths (Henk et al., 1995; Itakura et al., 2019; Toyokawa et al., 2020). These mutants tend to require high CO2 for growth, emphasizing the importance of the pyrenoid structure for the function of the CCM. However, the pyrenoid is not necessary in all cases for survival under low CO2, as some species of Chloromonas, despite lacking pyrenoids, have functioning CCMs (Morita et al., 1998).
In this work, we explore the importance of an aspect of the CCM, in particular the pyrenoid, in responses to hyperoxia, rather than low Ci availability. Since both low CO2 and hyperoxia involve a lowering of the CO2:O2 ratio, we hypothesized that (1) the pyrenoid is induced by hyperoxia; (2) that differences in its induction and/or formation can be related to hyperoxia tolerance. Furthermore, since both low CO2 and hyperoxia result in increased photorespiration, we hypothesized that (3) the signal for pyrenoid formation might be a by-product of photorespiration, H2O2. In order to address these hypotheses, we examined two natural isolates of Chlamydomonas with varying tolerances to hyperoxia, and their progeny, with the goal of better understanding the physiological mechanisms that underly responses to hyperoxia. Understanding such traits can give insights into the mechanisms and tradeoffs of adaptations for specific environmental niches. By extension, such traits and tradeoffs have strong relevance to applications ranging from algae cultivation to bioengineering crops for increase productivity (Long et al., 2015). Engineering the algal CCM into land plants is seen as a key route to improving crop photosynthesis (Fei et al., 2021; Hennacy and Jonikas, 2020; Mackinder, 2018; Meyer et al., 2016; Rae et al., 2017). If the algal pyrenoid CO2 concentration system were engineered into crops such as rice, wheat, or soya yields could increase by up to 60 % (Long et al., 2019); yet these improvements will likely only occur if a complete algal-like CCM is assembled in angiosperms (Atkinson et al., 2020; Barrett et al., 2021). Such ambitions necessitate an understanding of the signals and trade-offs of pyrenoid formation, for which Chlamydomonas is an excellent model system.
Materials and methods
Chlamydomonas strains and mating
Strain CC-2343 (mt+), in a search for strains resistant to heavy metals CdCl2 and HgCl2, was isolated from soil in Melbourne, Florida in 1988 (Spanier et al., 1992). Strain CC-1009 (mt-) is a wild type strain tracing back to the 1945 collection of G.M. Smith, isolated in Amherst MA, but has been a separate line from the sequenced and widely regarded reference strain c137 (CC-124 and CC-125) and Sagar (CC-1690) since about 1950 (Pröschold et al., 2005). CC-5357 was generated by Luke MacKinder in the laboratory of Martin Jonikas (Mackinder et al., 2016). These (Appendix 1—figure 1) and other strains were obtained from the Chlamydomonas Resource Center (https://www.chlamycollection.org). CC-2343 and CC-1009 were mated using an established protocol (Jiang and Stern, 2009).
Key resources table.
Reagent type (species) or resource | Designation | Source or reference | Identifiers | Additional information |
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Strain, strain background (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii) | CC-2343 | https://www.chlamycollection.org | CC-2343 wild type mt+ [Jarvik #224, Melbourne, FL] | Wild type isolated from Florida in 1988 Spanier et al., 1992 |
Strain, strain background (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii) | CC-1009 | https://www.chlamycollection.org | CC-1009 wild type mt- [UTEX 89] | A descendant of a wild type collected in Amherst, MA in 1945 Pröschold et al., 2005 |
Strain, strain background (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii) | CC-5357 | https://www.chlamycollection.org | CC-5357 RbcS1-Venus mt- | Contains a YFP tagged rubisco Mackinder et al., 2016 |
Strain, strain background (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii) | CC-2702 | https://www.chlamycollection.org | CC-2702 mt+ | Cia5 mutant, lacks carbon concentrating mechanism Xiang et al., 2001 |
Strain, strain background (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii) | c1_1 | This study | c1_1 mt+ | Tolerant to hyperoxia |
Strain, strain background (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii) | c1_2 | This study | c1_2 mt+ | Tolerant to hyperoxia |
Strain, strain background (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii) | c1_3 | This study | c1_3 mt- | Intolerant to hyperoxia |
Strain, strain background (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii) | c1_4 | This study | c1_4 mt- | Intolerant to hyperoxia |
Growth and biomass
Cultures (i.e. CC-2343, CC-1009, and progeny) were grown autotrophically in environmental photobioreactors (ePBRs) (Lucker et al., 2014), or in some cases in 125 mL Erlenmeyer flasks, in either a medium called 2NBH (Davey et al., 2012), which is a modified Bristol’s medium (Supplementary file 1A), or (i.e. CC-5357 and other strains descendant from CC-4533) in Sueoka’s high-salt medium (HS) (Sueoka, 1960) because of their requirement for ammonium rather than nitrate as a nitrogen source. When grown in ePBRs, culture density was maintained by turbidostat-controlled automatic dilution, adjusted to give chlorophyll concentrations of approximately 3 μg/mL. The media filled the columns to 15 cm in height, bringing the total volume to 330 mL. Following inoculation, all cultures were maintained for at least three days at constant chlorophyll prior the measuring of productivity. Standard illumination was provided on a 14:10 hr (light:dark) sinusoidal diurnal cycle, with the peak light intensity of 2000 μmol m–2 s–1 PAR. Gas was filtered with using a HEPA-Cap disposable air filtration capsule (Whatman, #67023600), and bubbled through a 5 mm gas dispersion stone with a porosity of 10–20 µm at a flow rate of 350 ml/min.
In our ePBRs, we used a series of sparging protocols to establish a range of CO2 and O2 levels as well as to simulate fluctuations in CO2 that might occur during production culturing, including: (1) rapid sparges (one min on and one min off) during illumination; (2) ‘raceway sparges’, one min sparge each hour during illumination. For normoxic conditions, the sparge gas was 5 % CO2, 21 % O2, balance N2. For ‘hyperoxia’ treatments, the sparge gas was 5 % CO2 and 95 % O2.
Biomass productivity in units of g . m–2 . day–1 was estimated by multiplying the volume of eluted culture as a result of turbidostatic dilutions by the measured Ash Free Dry Weight (AFDW) per unit volume, then normalizing to m2 by dividing by the surface area of the ePBR water column. The column height was 15 cm and the surface area is 26.6 cm2. Unless noted otherwise, all experiments were done in biological triplicate, each separate bioreactor or flask representing a different biological replicate.
When grown in the Erlenmeyer flasks, the cultures were grown in batch mode (Anderson, 2005) under ~80 μmol m–2 s–1 PAR of light and bubbled continuously via a glass Pasteur pipette with 5 % CO2.
In our aerophilic, mixotrophic assays (i.e. Appendix 1—figure 7), cells were grown at steady state in 2NBH media in photobioreactors and then counted using a Beckman Coulter Z2 Coulter Counter at sizes between 3–10 microns. 50000, 5000, 500, 50 cells were then spotted onto Tris Acetate Phosphate (TAP) plates (Gorman and Levine, 1965) and grown under 80 μmol m–2 s–1 of PAR.
Estimation of culture bicarbonate concentrations
Dissolved bicarbonate levels were estimated using an approach based on the release of CO2 upon acidification of the media (Hawkes et al., 1993) using an in-house built instrument consisting of a 250 mL sealed glass reactor (a standard canning jar, Mason, USA) that houses a small but sensitive atmospheric CO2 sensor (S8, https://www.senseair.com), a 3 cm long Teflon-coated magnetic stir bar and a small septum for introducing reagents. During experiments, the output of the CO2 sensor was continuously collected at a rate of 1 Hz using a microcontroller (Teensy 3.2, PJCR, Sherwood, OR, USA) and analyzed with a Python Jupyter (https://www.jupyter.org) notebook. The experiments started with the addition of 10 mL of sample and continuous stirring (approximately 30 Hz rotation frequency). Similar results were obtained when samples were drawn directly from the ePBR or passed through a 4 micron filter to remove cells. After introducing the sample, the system was allowed to equilibrate for 3 min, at which time the sample was acidified to pH <4 by addition of 200 µL of 1 N HCl. The acidification leads to hydrolysis of HCO3- to CO2 + H2O, resulting in release (outgassing) of CO2 into the chamber. To account for differential partitioning of CO2 into the medium and atmosphere, responses were then calibrated by spiking the samples with a known concentrations of sodium bicarbonate.
Estimation of O2 and Ci compensation points
The Ci compensation point was estimated by measuring the extent to which steady-state photosynthesis in a suspension of cells could draw down CO2 levels above the samples. Note that this approach will monitor the overall competition between CO2 uptake by assimilation and CO2 release by photorespiration and respiration. In the absence of the CCM, cells will directly fix CO2 that diffuses into the chloroplast, but when the CCM is active, the cell will actively transport of HCO3- to the chloroplast. In both cases, we expect equilibration between HCO3- and CO2 (in the medium and atmosphere), so that at a constant pH, the atmospheric CO2 level should provide a measure of the ability of cells to draw down Ci. Freshly harvested cells were centrifuged (800 x g for 5 min) and then placed into 2 mL of well buffered medium (HS +20 mM HEPES, pH 7.0) within a sealed, 25 mL plastic cuvette (Coulter, cat. no. A35471) and stirred with a 0.5 cm diameter magnetic stir bar rotating at approximately 3 Hz. Changes in CO2 levels were monitored with a small CO2 sensor (Senseair, cat. no. 004-0-0013), placed in the headspace above the sample. The suspension was sparged with nitrogen gas for 5 min to deplete the medium of CO2 and O2, then illuminated for 20 min to allow photorespiration, mitochondrial respiration and photosynthetic assimilation to achieve the steady state atmospheric CO2 level, which was taken as the Ci compensation point.
Microscopy
At each time point of interest, 1 mL of culture (at ~3 μg/mL chlorophyll) were removed from our bioreactors, placed in Eppendorf tubes and mixed with 2 µl of Lugol’s Solution (Sigma-Aldrich, cat. no. L6146) before being viewed in a Leica DMi90 inverted light microscope.
Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) was performed using a JEOL 1400 Flash instrument, and images were photographed with a Metattaki Flash cMOS camera. To prepare cells for microscopy, samples were resuspended in 2.5 % glyceraldehyde in cultures of 2NBH media, and then treated as previously described (Du et al., 2018). To quantify the relative size of the starch sheaths, using ImageJ (Schindelin et al., 2012) the area around the inner parameter of the pyrenoid was subtracted from the area around the outer parameter of the starch sheath. The remaining area was then divided by the total area of the cells to give the relative pyrenoid sheath size. To determine the percent exposure of the pyrenoid matrix, using ImageJ lines were drawn across the length of the starch plates or matrix holding the plates together, and total length of these lines was then assessed. Similarly, lines were drawn across gaps in the pyrenoid structures and the total length of the gap was also assessed. The total gap length was then divided by combined length of the gap and plates to give the ‘percent exposure.’
Subcellular localization of Rubisco labeled with Venus fluorescence protein was imaged using an Olympus FluoView 1000 Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope, configured on an Olympus IX81 inverted microscope using either a 60 x PlanApo (NA 1.42) oil objective or a 100 x UplanApo (NA 1.40) oil objective. Venus fluorescence protein was excited using the 515 nm Argon laser emission line, and fluorescence emission was detected using a 530–620 nm band pass filter. We also repeated the analysis using a Nikon A1 Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope, configured on a Nikon Ti Eclipse inverted microscope using a 100 x Apo TIRF (NA 1.49) oil objective. Venus fluorescence protein was excited using the 515 nm Argon laser emission line, and fluorescence emission was detected using a 530–600 nm band pass filter. Transmitted laser light was simultaneously collected using brightfield optics. Confocal Z-series through the thickness of the algal cells were collected in 0.5 μm increments, typically through a 5 μm thickness, and the Z-stacked images were compressed into a 2D image, displayed as a Maximum Intensity Projection.
Confocal work to probe cellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) production was performed on the Olympus confocal microscope setup described above, using methods previously described (Du et al., 2018).
H2O2 measurements
For H2O2 measurements, cells were treated with reagents of an Amplex Red Hydrogen Peroxide/Peroxidase Assay Kit (Molecular Probes/Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA), as has been used by previous researchers (Lin et al., 2013). In brief, 5 mL of the culture was collected by centrifugation, and the pellet was flash frozen in liquid nitrogen. The cells were then broken in 1 mL of 1 X reaction buffer from the assay kit, ground with glass beads, and briefly sonicated. The mixture was then centrifuged and the supernatant was then used to measure the cellular H2O2 concentrations after incubation with horseradish peroxidase at 25 °C for 30 min. The H2O2 concentrations were determined by a standard curve developed using 0.25–2.5 μM and normalized by calculating the amount of protein in the extract using a standard Bradford Assay (Bradford, 1976) with Bradford Reagent (Sigma-Aldrich, cat no. B6916).
Rubisco activity assay
Rubisco enzymatic activity was assayed using an established protocol (Li et al., 2019; Roeske and O’Leary, 1985; Sharkey et al., 1986), with slight adjustments to make the protocol suitable specifically for Chlamydomonas. Briefly, cultures were harvested from the bioreactors, flash frozen in liquid nitrogen, and stored at –80 °C. Just prior to assay, samples were suspended in extraction buffer [50 mM 4-2(2-hydroxyethyl)–1-piperazine propane sulfonic acid (EPPS), pH 8, 30 mM NaCl, 10 mM mannitol, 5 mM MgCl2, 2 mM EDTA, 5 mM DTT, 0.5 % (v/v) Triton X-100, 1 % polyvinylpolypyrrolidone (PVPP), 0.5 % casein, and 1 % protease inhibitor cocktail (P9599; Sigma-Aldrich)], sonicated, and vortexed to extract proteins. Aliquots of 20 μL of the extract was added to 80 μL of assay buffer [50 mM 4-2(2-hydroxyethyl)–1-piperazine propane sulfonic acid, pH 8, 5 mM MgCl2, 0.2 mM EDTA, 0.5 mM Ribulose bisphosphate, and 15 mM NaH12CO3, and 0.3 mM H14CO3-]. The suspensions were vortexed for three seconds, incubated for one minute, and then the reaction was halted by adding 100 μL of 1 M formic acid. The resulting acidification liberates unfixed inorganic C by converting HCO3- to CO2, which escapes from the buffer. The mixtures were vortexed again for 3 s and then dried on a hotplate at 75 °C. For measurements of total rubisco activity, the extracts were pre-incubated with activation solution (to give final concentrations of 20 mM MgCl2, 15 mM H12CO3, and 61 mM 6-phosphogluconate) for ten minutes before being mixed with the assay buffer. The amount of fixed radioactivity was determined using a liquid scintillation counter (TriCarb 2800TR, Perkin Elmer). Each day, radioactivity in 10 µL of the assay buffer was counted to determine specific activity. Based on 1mCi = 2.22 x 109 disintegrations min–1, initial and total rubisco activity was calculated as expressed as μmol m–2 s–1. The rates were divided by 0.943 to account for the discrimination against 14C (Li et al., 2019; Roeske and O’Leary, 1985). Three algal samples, each constituting a biological replicate, were run per treatment or condition, and three technical replicates were run for each biological replicate.
Chlorophyll measurements
Chlorophyll content was measured using the method of Porra (Balcerzak et al., 2021; Porra, 2002), but with the modifications that the extraction solution contained 60 % acetone and 40 % DMSO, instead of 80 % acetone.
Oxygen evolution and quantum yield of photosystem II (ΦII)
Cell suspensions growing at steady state were removed from the bioreactors and concentrated in fresh media to 50 μg/mL of chlorophyll in a cuvette. To drive out the oxygen, the cultures were then sparged with 1 % CO2 and 99% N2 gas. Subsequently also supplemented with 6.25 mM sodium bicarbonate, the cultures were illuminated with approximately 750 µmol photons m–2 s–1 of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), measured using a submersible spherical micro quantum sensor (US-SQS/L, Walz) attached to a light meter (Li-250A, LiCor) from two red LEDs (emission at approximately 630 nm) aimed at opposing sides of the cuvette. Oxygen evolution was then measured using a Neofox oxygen sensor via a fiber optic fluorescent probe by Ocean Optics (Dunedin, Florida). The ΦII measurements of the TAP plates were made in our dynamic environmental photosynthesis imager (DEPI), using methods described previously in detail (Cruz et al., 2016) but, to avoid direct reflection of the measuring light into the camera, the plates were tilted by approximately 5o from the horizontal position.
Results
Hyperoxia differentially affects rubisco activity in the tolerant and sensitive lines
In an initial screen of sequenced Chlamydomonas isolates (Jang and Ehrenreich, 2012), we found two with contrasting tolerances to hyperoxia, with strain CC-1009 relatively tolerant to hyperoxia, continuing to grow, albeit at a suppressed rate, when exposed to 95 % oxygen and 5 % CO2, while CC-2343 showed severely suppressed growth and eventual chlorosis or photobleaching in our ePBRs (Hall, 2017). Qualitatively, this varying tolerance was also observed when cultures were continuously sparged in batch culture (Appendix 1—figure 2), when the cultures were CO2 saturated, indicating that the differential sensitivity was caused by hyperoxia rather than depletion of inorganic carbon sources (see also results on rapid sparging in the ePBR system, below).
Spreitzer and Mets, 1981 found that rubisco activity-deficient mutants exhibited chlorotic phenotypes similar to those observed with CC-2343 under hyperoxia. We conjectured that rubisco inhibition may be playing a role in CC-2343’s intolerance to hyperoxia. To be clear, while Spreitzer and Mets, 1981 were screening for mutants that were highly sensitive to even low light (~90 μmoles m–2 s–1 PAR), we grew our wild-type strains of Chlamydomonas under hyperoxia with diurnal sinusoidal light with peak light intensities of 2000 μmoles m–2 s–1 PAR. We found that, when sparged with 5 % CO2, CC-1009 and CC-2343 grow very well at such light intensities. We measured rubisco activity of both strains prior to and after 31 hr exposure to hyperoxia (Figure 1). Rubisco activity was measured immediately after isolation to estimate steady-state activity at the time point of interest, which is controlled by both the total enzyme content and the fraction of the enzyme in the inactive state related to carbamylation state or the presence of inhibitors (Li et al., 2019; Roeske and O’Leary, 1985). Pre-incubating for ten minutes in the presence of MgCl2, HCO3-, and 6-phosphogluconate (6 PG) promotes activation of the enzyme by stabilizing the Enzyme-CO2-Mg-Complex of rubisco, allowing for the estimation of the maximal rubisco activity (Badger and Lorimer, 1981; Chu and Bassham, 1973; Matsumura et al., 2012). Using this method, we estimate that, under atmospheric levels of O2, approximately 60 % of the enzyme was in its active form for both CC-1009 and CC-2343. After 31 hrs of exposure to hyperoxia, the total (maximal) activity of rubisco decreased in both lines, by about 10% and 28% in CC-1009 and CC-2343, respectively. However, in the case of CC-1009, the loss in total activity was compensated for by a large increase (to about 95%) in the fraction of active enzyme, leading to an overall increase of about 23 % in steady-state activity. By contrast, the fraction of activated rubisco was unchanged in CC-2343, leading to an overall decrease of about 13 % in steady-state activity.
Although we cannot ascribe the differences in photosynthetic phenotypes solely to rubisco deactivation, these results do suggest that the CO2/O2 concentrations or metabolic environments near rubisco are different under hyperoxia in the two lines. Apart from the metabolic environment, the activation state of rubisco can also be affected by the levels or activity of the rubisco activase (Pollock et al., 2003). But we found no consistent differences in the cellular contents of the rubisco activase protein between the cell lines. Another important factor that could affect the activity of rubisco and its metabolic environment in Chlamydomonas is its pyrenoid, a distinct, well-structured starch sheath surrounding localized rubisco that, under low CO2, plays a key role in trapping CO2 in the CCM (del Campo et al., 1995; Harris, 1989; Harris, 2009; Ramazanov et al., 1994). It has also been proposed to shield rubisco from high O2 levels generated by PSII (McKay and Gibbs, 1991; Toyokawa et al., 2020). We thus initially hypothesized that: (1) the pyrenoid could be important for responses to hyperoxia and (2) differences in pyrenoid structure or regulation may then contribute to the distinct photosynthetic responses in the two lines. Consistent with these hypotheses, under saturating CO2 conditions (Appendix 1—figure 3), the pyrenoid starch sheaths are not clearly discernable, in agreement with previous research showing that the pyrenoid starch sheath is not expressed under Ci replete conditions (Borkhsenious et al., 1998; Ramazanov et al., 1994). Exposure to hyperoxia (95 % O2 and 5 % CO2), both when sparged rapidly (a square wave cycle one minute sparge and one minute rest, see Materials and methods) (Appendix 1—figure 4 and 5) or under high light with our raceway sparging regime (one minute sparge every hour) strongly induced starch sheath formation in our strains, but with genotype-dependent morphologies (Figure 2). The tolerant line, CC-1009, exhibited clearly defined, continuous starch sheath rings around its pyrenoid compartment, punctuated only in places where thylakoid tubules enter the pyrenoid matrix (Figure 2A). By contrast, CC-2343 showed more fragmented and porous structures, with gaps that were not clearly association with tubules (Figure 2B).
To test if decreased CO2 or inorganic carbon levels could account for induction of pyrenoid synthesis, we directly assayed levels at various times during the sparge cycle, using the method described in Materials and methods. For the rapid sparging protocol, the estimated [HCO3-] under both normoxia and hyperoxia remained between 2 and 3 mM, and for the ‘raceway’ sparging protocol, between 1.3 and 1.7 mM a few minutes after sparging and 1.0–1.4 mM just prior to the following sparge. In all cases, the pH of the medium remained below 7.4. Thus, based on the known pKa values for the CO2/bicarbonate system, we estimate the lowest CO2 levels experienced by the cultures, which occurred under raceway sparging conditions, remained above 100 µM, above the Km of rubisco (~29 μM – 57 μM) in Chlamydomonas (Berry et al., 1976; Jordan and Ogren, 1981). This is also in excess of the concentration found by Toyokawa et al., 2020 to induce the formation of the pyrenoid starch sheath (2.1–3.1 μM). The CCM in C. reinhardtii is typically induced when the concentration of CO2 in the air bubbled through the culture is decreased to around 0.5 % or lower (Vance and Spalding, 2005).
Similar genotype-dependent pyrenoid morphologies were also observed, in a 2:2 segregation pattern, in four daughter cells dissected from a single tetrad (Figure 2 & Appendix 1—figure 6). Two of the progenies, designated c1_1 and c1_2, when exposed to hyperoxia, developed completely sealed and robust rings, like CC-1009, while two others, designated c1_3 and c1_4, showed fragmented, porous structures, like CC-2343 (Figure 2). These differences were even more apparent after 31 hr of hyperoxia (Figure 2). Strains with fragmented pyrenoids (CC-2343, c1_3 ad c1_4) showed an abrupt inhibition of growth after one day of exposure to hyperoxia, whereas those with sealed pyrenoids (CC-1009, c1_1 and c1_2) continued to grow rapidly and produce biomass (Figure 3). Both progeny with fragmented pyrenoid sheaths grew even more slowly than the sensitive parent, CC-2343. On the other hand, those progeny with sealed pyrenoids (c1_1 and c1_2) initially grew more slowly than CC-1009, but maintained steady growth even on the fourth day of hyperoxia (Figure 3). These results suggest that the ultrastructural differences in the pyrenoid starch sheath (Figure 2) are related to the observed tolerances of growth to hyperoxia in both parent and progeny lines (Figure 3). However, the differences among the tolerant and sensitive lines, particularly the observation that the progeny have phenotypes more extreme than those of the parent lines, imply that additional genetic factors (beyond those that control pyrenoid morphology) likely contribute to productivity under hyperoxia.
We also plated cultures of the CC-2343 and CC-1009 and the four progenies on TAP agar plates. Interestingly, growing the cells under aerophilic, mixotrophic conditions, we found that CC-2343 and the progeny that were intolerant to hyperoxia (c1_3 and c1_4) grew more rapidly than the hyperoxia tolerant lines which had exhibited the sealed, continuous pyrenoid starch sheaths (CC-1009, c1_1, c1_2) (Appendix 1—figure 7), despite exhibiting similar ΦII values (Appendix 1—figure 8). In addition, when we grew the parent cells under steady state supplemented with 5 % CO2, CC-2343 synthesized more starch (Appendix 1—figure 9).
Consistent with studies which have shown the pyrenoid is light dependent (Kuchitsu et al., 1988; Lin and Carpenter, 1997), CC-1009, CC-2343, and the F1 tetrad offspring also lost visible pyrenoid structures after dark exposure during the night (sparging once every hour with 5 % CO2 in air), and the pyrenoid starch sheaths did not appear fully formed during the morning when PAR was low (Appendix 1—figure 10). As the light levels increased over 6 hr, though, the pyrenoid structures still formed under raceway sparging. Rather than a specific light level, this could be because it takes several hours to form pyrenoid structures and that photosynthesis is likely required. Under these conditions, CC-1009, c1_1, and c1_2 exhibited more tightly structured pyrenoids (Figure 2), although the differences were not as great as those exhibited under hyperoxia (Figure 2).
Consistent with previous work (Borkhsenious et al., 1998), pyrenoid formation was observed in all lines when cells were grown at high light and low CO2, but with some differences in morphology among the lines. After exposure to low CO2 (i.e. ambient air) for 6 hours, c1_1, c1_2 showed tightly closed sheath morphology similar to CC-1009 (Figure 2A). However, after 31 hr of exposure to low CO2, the genotype differences in morphology became less apparent as all lines made starch sheaths of some integrity (Appendix 1—figure 11). All lines also grew similarly under ambient CO2 in flasks under approximately 85 µmol photons m–2 s–1 (Appendix 1—figure 12). Taken together, these results suggest that low inorganic carbon, high O2 and high light can all promote synthesis of the starch sheath, and that genetic variations modulate these responses.
Pyrenoid formation is induced by exogenous and endogenously produced H2O2, and inhibited by the ROS scavenger, ascorbic acid
The above results suggest that a product of photosynthesis common to high light, low CO2 and high O2 may trigger pyrenoid formation. As discussed below, one possible signal is H2O2. Figure 4 shows the effects of exogenous addition of H2O2 on the pyrenoid ultrastructure of Chlamydomonas parent lines. Cultures were harvested from photobioreactors in the morning (2 hr after the start of illumination) and diluted by half with fresh minimal 2NBH media with 5 mM bicarbonate – without (control) or with addition of 100 μM of H2O2. After 6 hr in low light (~85 μmol photons m–2 s–1), cells were fixed for EM as described in Materials and methods. Strikingly, treatment with H2O2 resulted in the appearance of thick, well-sealed starch sheaths, for both CC-1009 (Figure 4A and B) and CC-2343 (Figure 4C and D). Image J Analysis of the cells confirmed that there was a clear change in the size of the starch sheath (Figure 5). It is evident that hydrogen peroxide leads to significant increases in the prevalence of the starch sheath; which likely also coincides with a greater appearance of the pyrenoid periphery mesh – that is perhaps specifically related to LCI9 (Mackinder et al., 2017) - which appears to cement the starch plates together.
We also found that pyrenoids could also be induced in the presence of high bicarbonate via treatment with low concentrations of methyl viologen (Appendix 1—figure 13) or metronidazole (Appendix 1—figure 14), compounds known to induce internal hydrogen peroxide production by accepting electrons from PSI and passing them to O2, forming superoxide, which is converted to H2O2 by superoxide dismutase (Aksmann et al., 2016; Chang et al., 2013; Schmidt et al., 1977). The concentrations of these compounds did not inhibit growth or motility over the time scale of the experiment (~6 hr) and thus their effects are likely to be caused by ROS production or altered metabolic status rather than severe cell damage. Complementing these findings, treatment with two known H2O2 scavengers, ascorbic acid (Kuo et al., 2020; Nagy et al., 2015; Appendix 1—figure 15) or dimethylthiourea (Chang et al., 2013; Appendix 1—figure 16) prevented the formation of the pyrenoid starch sheath under low CO2 conditions. Overall, these results are consistent with the role of H2O2 in triggering the formation of the pyrenoid, though it remains to be determined whether such effects are direct or indirect, for example resulting of altered metabolic status.
Hydrogen peroxide treatment was found also to affect the localization of rubisco (Figure 6), which is sequestered in the pyrenoid at low CO2 (Borkhsenious et al., 1998). We assessed changes in localization using a modified Chlamydomonas reinhardtii strain, CC-5357, expressing rubisco small subunit (RbcS1) tagged with the Venus fluorescent protein (Mackinder et al., 2016). Under control conditions (5 mM bicarbonate, no H2O2 treatment), labelled rubisco was present throughout the chloroplast, with some localization in a pyrenoid matrix-like structure (Figure 6A). However, approximately six hours after treatment with 100 μM H2O2, rubisco became strongly localized to the pyrenoid matrix (Figure 6B; Appendix 1—figure 17; Transparent Reporting Image 11), with very little fluorescent signal outside this structure (see quantification of fluorescence signal, Figure 6C). Similar results were also found with the addition of methyl viologen and metronidazole (Appendix 1—figure 18), although the confocal laser in combination with the inhibitors appeared to make the samples unstable and not allow for multiple observations of the same slide. We also found evidence that even when sparged with saturating CO2, hyperoxia may result in an apparent increase in the aggregation of rubisco in the pyrenoids (Appendix 1—figure 19), indicating that oxygen has some control of this aggregation. Previously, the aggregation of rubisco into the pyrenoid has been associated with the CCM (Freeman Rosenzweig et al., 2017; Mitchell et al., 2014).
By contrast, no significant changes in rubisco localization were observed when upon addition of 100 μM H2O2 to TAP-grown cells (Appendix 1—figure 20), the media used in another study testing the effects of hydrogen peroxide on Chlamydomonas (Blaby et al., 2015), implying that the effect was dependent on the photosynthetic state of the cells and/or suppressed in the presence of this organic carbon source. Consistent with this interpretation, cells grown on TAP plates showed no observable pyrenoid starch sheath by light microscopy or starch staining (Appendix 1—figure 21) in contrast with what we observed with cells grown in liquid minimal media. Furthermore, when CC-5357 was grown on TAP plates, rubisco became completely dispersed throughout the stroma, with no evidence of a pyrenoid matrix-like structure (Figure 7).
We next tested for differences in H2O2 production under hyperoxia in CC-2343 and CC-1009. We found that 6 and 31 hr of exposure to hyperoxia resulted in a ~ 3 fold increase in H2O2 in CC-1009, but no significant changes in CC-2343 (Figure 8), though CC-2343 showed a somewhat higher basal level of H2O2 on a per cell basis. Figure 9 shows confocal laser-scanning microscope images of cells taken at steady state (Figure 9A and B) and at 31 hr hyperoxia (Figure 9C and D) and stained with 2’,7’-dichlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate (H2DCFDA), a general stain for reactive oxygen, sensitive to H2O2, singlet oxygen, superoxide, hydroxyl radical and various peroxide and hydroperoxides. Both cell lines accumulated ROS in response to hyperoxia. However, cells of CC-1009 showed accumulation of ROS that was highly localized in small structures (Figure 9D) consistent with peroxisomal microbodies (Lauersen et al., 2016). By contrast, CC-2343 cells showed weaker, more diffuse, staining throughout the cell, seeming to accumulate ROS throughout the thylakoids, which may be a result of rubisco inhibition, chloro-respiration, or superoxide formation (Figure 9C). We also observed, in CC-2343, cells uniformly stained with the H2DCFDA (Figure 9C), reflecting severe ROS accumulation/stress in CC-2343 in subpopulations of cells, stress that did not appear to occur as much in CC-1009.
Cells pre-treated with exogenous H2O2 display higher oxygen compensation points and lower CO2 compensation points
Figure 10 shows the effects of H2O2 pre-treatment on O2 levels in cell suspensions of CC-1009 and CC-2343 under saturating actinic illumination. In these experiments, we tested whether H2O2-induced formation of pyrenoids with tight sheaths allowed photosynthesis to occur at higher levels of O2. Prior to the traces, suspensions with 5 mM NaHCO3 were sparged with air to establish low dissolved O2 levels. At time zero, sparging was stopped and changes in dissolved O2 were monitored with a luminescence-based O2 sensor (see Materials and methods). The initial rise in O2 reflects when the rate of net assimilation was maximal, under conditions when inorganic C supply was replete (5 mM HCO3-) and O2 levels were low. These slopes were within 15 % of one another for both control and H2O2-treated CC-1009 (128 and 143 μM O2 min–1) and CC-2343 (104 and 110 μM O2 min–1) suspensions. After about 20 min, the rise in O2 levels slowed, eventually reaching quasi-steady-state levels that represented the ‘oxygen compensation point’ where O2 evolution from PSII was counterbalanced by O2 uptake. Switching off the actinic light at ~57 min led to O2 uptake, the initial rate of which likely represents the gross O2 uptake, which is counterbalanced by O2 evolution. Nearly equal during steady-state illumination, the two canceled each other out during the periods of light exposure. For control cells, the O2 compensation points (the O2 levels when the rate of O2 uptake balanced that of evolution) for CC-2343 and CC-1009 were approximately 1,070 and 1230 μM O2 (p < 0.05), respectively, implying, because it reaches the compensation point at a higher O2 level, that CC-1009 was able to more effectively select for CO2 uptake over O2 reduction. The rates of uptake of O2 after illumination were slightly slower in CC-2343 (36 μM O2 min–1) than CC-1009 (44 μM O2 min–1) indicating that the lower compensation point was caused by a combination of decreased linear electron flow and increased O2 uptake. Strikingly, pre-treatment with H2O2 led to significant (p < 0.05) increases in the O2 compensation points for both CC-2343 and CC-1009, to about 1,233 and 1356 μM O2 min–1 respectively, confirming that treated cells were better able to discriminate between uptakes of CO2 and O2. After the cells reached (essentially) steady-state levels of O2, the actinic light was switched off. The initial slopes of O2 uptake were then measured (by fitting the decay to pseudo-first order decay kinetics and taking the initial rate), to give an estimate of the rates of O2 evolution and uptake. CC-1009 cells showed similar O2 uptake slopes in treated H2O2-treated (46 μM O2 min–1) and untreated (44 μM O2 min–1) suspensions, likely indicating that the rates of electron flow were also similar, but that the preferential fluxes of electron into assimilation allowed for a greater accumulation of O2 in the treated cells. By contrast, CC-2343 cells showed a significant increase in the initial slopes of O2 consumption in the treated (42 μM O2 min–1) compared to control (36 μM O2 min–1) suspensions, suggesting that the high O2 levels suppressed overall rates of linear electron flow (LEF) in the untreated cells (Supplementary file 1C).
The above results imply that the formation of the pyrenoid after H2O2 treatment increased the ability of the cells to evolve O2, either by excluding O2 from or by concentrating CO2 within the pyrenoid. We also measured the levels to which CO2 above a cell suspension can be decreased by photosynthesis. We call this parameter the Ci compensation point because it reflects the competition between assimilatory CO2 uptake and the sum of photorespiration and respiration, regardless of whether the uptake occurs through diffusion and direct fixation of CO2, or the active pumping of HCO3- by the CCM (see Methods for details). As shown in Appendix 1—figure 22, the apparent Ci compensation point was highest (46±4.4 ppm) for the cia5 mutant (Xiang et al., 2001), which is defective in the CCM, and somewhat lower (34±4.2 ppm) in CC-5357 grown under high CO2 and low light, where we expect low CCM activity, and lowest (23±4.7 ppm) in CC-5357 grown at low CO2 and high light, where we expect the CCM to be fully activated. Importantly, CC-5357 cells grown under low light and high CO2, but treated with H2O2, also showed a low Ci compensation point (25±4.5 ppm), indicating that the H2O2 induced pyrenoid can act effectively in the CCM. We thus conclude that the H2O2-induced pyrenoid can act to exclude O2 and/or trap CO2 pumped by the CCM.
Discussion
The induction of pyrenoid biosynthesis under hyperoxia and the role of H2O2
Photosynthesis can be inhibited by one of its major products, molecular oxygen. This is known to occur in certain aqueous environments, such as when algae ponds are enriched with CO2 and photosynthesis can proceed rapidly, but diffusion of O2 is slow, leading to super-saturated oxygen levels, which can feedback limit productivity (Livansky, 1996; Pulz, 2001; Raso et al., 2012; Torzillo et al., 1998; Vonshak et al., 1996; Weissman et al., 1988). Little is known about the physiological impact of hyperoxia or the mechanisms by which some species algae are able to ameliorate its effects. Here, we took advantage of an observation that two strains of C. reinhardtii – and their meiotic progeny – showed distinct tolerances to hyperoxia to probe such adaptations.
Most previous work on the pyrenoid has focused on its activation by low CO2 and its role in the CCM (Borkhsenious et al., 1998; Freeman Rosenzweig et al., 2017; Mackinder et al., 2017; Ramazanov et al., 1994). Both parent lines in our study and all progeny showed low CO2-dependent pyrenoid formation. When cells were sparged with 5 % CO2 for one minute every hour and under normoxia (~21%), the pyrenoid starch sheaths dissociated at night. This result was consistent with previous observations which demonstrated that starch formation around the pyrenoid is correlated with light and the state of the CCM (Borkhsenious et al., 1998; Kuchitsu et al., 1988; Lin and Carpenter, 1997; Ramazanov et al., 1994). Also consistent with the cited previous work, low-light with mixotrophic conditions resulted in rubisco delocalization. We further show that the most complete degree of rubisco delocalization occurs when algae is grown on a TAP agar plate exposed to air, rather than aquatically in liquid TAP (Figure 7). At high light, pyrenoids were formed even when CO2 or bicarbonate levels were maintained at high levels (Figure 2), agreeing with previous assertions that light plays a role in pyrenoid biosynthesis (Kuchitsu et al., 1988; Lin and Carpenter, 1997).
Strikingly, we also observed strong pyrenoid formation, with especially tight, thick and well-sealed starch sheaths in CC-1009, c1_1, and c1_2 under hyperoxia (95 % O2), despite the high CO2 levels (Figure 2). One possible explanation for this observation is that an in-common by-product of photosynthesis and photorespiration under low CO2 and hyperoxia acts to induce pyrenoid formation. Hydrogen peroxide is an obvious candidate for such a role because it is well-documented to act as a signal molecule (Foyer et al., 2009) and its production is increased under high light (Roach et al., 2015), high O2 as a misfired product of oxygenation (Kim and Portis, 2004) or low CO2 (Foyer et al., 2009). H2O2 is also a product of the light reactions, through an alternative electron acceptor pathway such as the Mehler peroxidase reaction (MPR) or the water-water cycle, which is expected to be more active under conditions when light input exceeds the capacity of assimilation (Osmond et al., 2000; Mehler, 1951; Strizh, 2008). H2O2 can also be produced as a by-product of photorespiration (Janssen et al., 2014). Chlamydomonas possesses two pathways for oxidation of glycolate during photorespiration, one involving glycolate oxidase in the peroxisome, which uses O2 as an electron acceptor and produces H2O2, and another involving glycolate dehydrogenase (GLYDH) in the mitochondrion, which uses ubiquinone as an electron acceptor and presumably does not produce H2O2 (Janssen et al., 2014). A reasonable explanation is that, under conditions of high light, low CO2 or high O2 production of H2O2 by the glycolate pathway can act as a signal to induce pyrenoid formation.
We found that in autotrophically grown cells, exogenous addition of H2O2 in the presence of light strongly induced within approximately 6 hr the formation pyrenoid starch sheaths (Figure 4; Figure 5; Appendix 1—figure 23), and caused rubisco to localize into the pyrenoid (Figure 6). The H2O2 did not induce the pyrenoid when the cells were kept in the dark (Appendix 1—figure 24). The starch sheaths formed after addition of H2O2 had tight, thick structures in both parent lines, though CC-1009 seemed to still display slightly more robust starch plates (Figure 4). These structural changes were accompanied by increased O2 compensation points (Figure 10), indicating an increased ability to discriminate between O2 and CO2 as O2 levels increased. Our working hypothesis is that H2O2-induced formation of pyrenoids with tight sheaths allowed the accumulation of higher concentrations of CO2 at the active site of rubisco, outcompeting or shielding out higher levels of O2. Further, the formation of these pyrenoids enhance the discrimination of CO2/O2, implying that H2O2 induction of pyrenoids could convey performance advantages under hyperoxia. Consistent with this hypothesis, the induction of the CCM has been found to be coordinated with that of genes for photorespiratory enzymes, although the specific metabolic control of this co-regulation had remained unknown (Tirumani et al., 2019). Interestingly, a separate RNA expression study (Blaby et al., 2015) did not show strong induction of pyrenoid components by H2O2, but, importantly, was conducted on TAP-grown cells, which we found do not show H2O2-induced formation of the pyrenoid (Appendix 1—figure 20).
Debate remains about the signal that induces the CCM (Spalding, 2009; Spalding et al., 2002; Vance and Spalding, 2005), which consists not only of the pyrenoid but also the inorganic carbon transporters (Spalding, 2008) and carbonic anhydrases (Moroney et al., 2011); some have argued that the signal is CO2 itself, while others have proposed that the signal is a metabolite produced under low CO2 during photosynthesis or photorespiration. The later, termed the ‘metabolic signal hypothesis,’ (Spalding, 2009) proposed that photorespiratory intermediates could serve as a trigger for CCM induction (Marcus et al., 1983; Suzuki et al., 1990). The hypothesis was rooted in observations that, unlike wild type cells, various photosynthetic mutants did not exhibit CCM activity under low CO2, and that CCM induction in wild type cells required light (Dionisio et al., 1989a; Dionisio et al., 1989b; Dionisio-Sese et al., 1990; Spalding and Ogren, 1982; Spencer et al., 1983; Tirumani et al., 2014; Villarejo et al., 1996). Also implying that other factors, apart from CO2, played a role in CCM induction, decreased O2 tension and photorespiratory inhibitors, in low CO2 conditions, also decreased carbonic anhydrase induction (Ramazanov and Cardenas, 1992; Spalding and Ogren, 1982; Villarejo et al., 1996).
Bozzo et al., 2000 argued against the metabolite hypothesis in Chlorella, based on observations that: (1) photorespiratory inhibitors, which should result in an accumulation of photorespiration intermediates, failed to induce the CCM under high CO2 and (2) the expression of transcripts for a subset of carbonic anhydrases increased under low CO2 even in the dark (although to a lesser extent than in the light). Similar results have been found in several Chlorella species (Matsuda and Colman, 1995; Shiraiwa and Miyachi, 1985; Umino et al., 1991), suggesting that the induction of at least some CCM components can occur in the dark. However, it is unclear how relevant these results are, considering that the pyrenoid is not formed in the dark (Kuchitsu et al., 1988; Lin and Carpenter, 1997). It was also found in Chlamydomonas that changing O2 levels (from 2% to 20%) did not affect growth, photosynthetic rate, or the induction of periplasmic carbonic anhydrase (Cah1) or glycolate dehydrogenase (Gdh) genes, over a wide range of CO2 levels (Vance and Spalding, 2005). It is worth noting, though, that none of these previous experiments were conducted under true hyperoxia (O2 levels above partial pressure of 21%), where we observe strong induction of the pyrenoid, and thus they do not exclude product signaling under our observed conditions.
There remains the possibility of multiple signals for the CCM. There is differential regulation of low CO2 induced polypeptides in Chlamydomonas, with some only being induced in the light, while for others light is not necessary (Villarejo et al., 1996). Also, the observation that there are multiple acclimation states, with some mutants tolerant to very low CO2 but not low CO2, suggests the existence of multiple types of signaling (Spalding et al., 2002). Our findings that a key aspect of the CCM, the pyrenoid, can be induced, even under high CO2 (i.e. with hyperoxia and H2O2) disproves, to our knowledge for the first time, that low CO2 is a necessary condition for any aspect of CCM induction. Our results lead us to propose that H2O2, a by-product of photosynthesis, particularly under low CO2 and high O2, may fulfill the previous proposed ‘metabolic’ signal. Hydrogen peroxide is widely known to be a signal for a variety of stress related responses (Blaby et al., 2015; Zalutskaya et al., 2019), and has been found to alter the state of redox homeostasis in Chlamydomonas (Pokora et al., 2018). It has also been assigned roles in regulating a range of photosynthetic and associated processes in plants and algae (Berens et al., 2019; Foyer and Noctor, 2009), particularly those related to responses to CO2 levels and the induction of photorespiration (Foyer et al., 2009). Interestingly, in higher plants, H2O2 has been suggested to play a role in the response to varying levels of CO2 (Foyer et al., 2009). For example, Sorghum (C4) plants grown under conditions with lower amounts of photorespiration (i.e. elevated CO2) have decreased thickening of the bundle sheath cells (Watling et al., 2000), which, since they restrict the diffusion of CO2 out of bundle sheath cells and thereby allow for efficient capture by rubisco, can be interpreted as structures analogous to the starch sheath of the pyrenoid.
Hydrogen peroxide has also been implicated in regulating cyclic electron flow (CEF) in vascular plants, both by inducing the expression of the thylakoid Complex I (or NDH) (Casano et al., 2001; Gambarova, 2008) and by activation of existing enzymes (Strand et al., 2015). It is not known, however, if H2O2 acts directly as a signaling agent, or indirectly, for example by altering the activities of assimilatory enzymes (Strand et al., 2015) possibly through redox balancing enzymes such as the peroxiredoxins (Vaseghi et al., 2018). CEF is thought also to play central role in providing the energy needed to power CCMs, including that in Chlamydomonas (Lucker and Kramer, 2013). Our findings indicating that H2O2 may be the signal for the synthesis of a central component of the CCM, the pyrenoid, suggests that a common molecular by-product of photorespiration can set off a coordinated response; inducing the formation of the pyrenoid and also the metabolic processes to power the pumping of bicarbonate into it.
It has been argued that mixotrophic conditions alter the relationship between the onset of photorespiration and the expression of the CCM (Tirumani et al., 2019), and that photorespiration, hydrogen peroxide detoxification, and acetate assimilation (i.e. the glyoxolate cycle) are all localized in the peroxisomal microbodies (Lauersen et al., 2016). In this regard, it is intriguing that ROS labeling under hyperoxia was strongly localized in CC-1009 but not CC-2342 (Figure 9), hinting that H2O2 produced in a specific subcellular location and process may play a role in the differential development of the pyrenoid in the two parent lines, as discussed below. Taken together, these data sets are consistent with control of pyrenoid morphology at multiple levels, perhaps similar to the processes that regulate the expression of LHCSR3, involved in photoprotective nonphotochemical quenching, which is regulated by light quality and CO2 availability (Maruyama et al., 2014; Semchonok et al., 2017). Future studies can also investigate how hyperoxia plays a role in the gene regulatory network for antennae size, which has been shown to be affected by low CO2 (Blifernez-Klassen et al., 2021).
Possible linkages between H2O2 signaling, pyrenoid morphology and natural variations in responses to hyperoxia
By comparing genetically distinct isolates and their progeny, one can potentially explore possible mechanistic bases for responses to hyperoxia. We present here data from a limited set of progeny, which nevertheless reveals a segregation pattern which allows us to test certain future hypotheses. A more detailed analysis of a large number of progeny will be presented elsewhere. The most striking differences we observed between the lines were in the morphology of the pyrenoids (Figure 2), with the hyperoxia tolerant lines (CC-1009, c1_1, c1_2) showing thick, tightly sealed starch sheaths, while the sensitive lines (CC-2343, c1_3, c1_4) tending to have pores or gaps in the starch sheaths, suggesting that structural/functional differences in these sub-organelle compartments may play a role in the distinct responses to high O2. That the miotic progeny with reduced biomass accumulation and fractured starch sheaths exhibited 2:2 segregation suggests that the phenotype variations were due to allelic differences in the nuclear genes. These differences appear to be most obvious during hyperoxia, and all lines showed disappearance of the pyrenoid structures under high CO2/low light (Appendix 1—figure 10). Most interestingly, exogenous H2O2 led to synthesis of thick, tight pyrenoids in all lines, implying that the distinct morphologies is caused at least in part from differences in signaling, rather than structural components.
Given the possibility that H2O2 acts as a signal for pyrenoid biosynthesis, we tested for differences in its production under hyperoxia. Only in CC-1009 does H2O2 increase under hyperoxia (Figure 8). Furthermore, the localization of ROS production assessed by H2DCFDA fluorescence in confocal microscopy showed distinct localization patterns, with CC-1009 showing strongly localized dye fluorescence (Figure 9B and D), whereas CC-2343 showed diffuse staining throughout the cell (Figure 9A and C). Because the H2DCFDA is a general ROS indicator, it is not possible to unambiguously identify the specific reactive oxygen species, but one possible interpretation is that different localization patterns reflect the mechanism of ROS formation. The localized staining in CC-1009 is consistent with H2O2 produced in the peroxisome through photorespiration. By contrast, in CC-2343, the diffuse staining may reflect a range of different ROS, including but not limited to H2O2, 1O2 and O2•– produced by excitation of the light reactions and other processes (Osmond et al., 2000).
We have several hypotheses regarding why the two lines may have differences in the signaling and formation of their pyrenoid starch sheaths. One is that there might be variations in the strains’ utilization of the alternative photorespiration route that uses the glycolate dehydrogenase (GLYDH) enzyme, a route which does not result in hydrogen peroxide formation (Janssen et al., 2014).
Similarly, in the future we will investigate how the pyrenoid ameliorates the stresses of hyperoxia, with possibilities beyond photorespiration. Our rubisco assays (Figure 1) suggest that increased O2 fixation or ROS production may lead to greater inhibition of rubisco in CC-2343 compared to CC-1009, possibly leading or concomitant to a general breakdown of the cell’s machinery, as evidenced by the lower autotrophic grow rates of CC-2343 at high O2 (Figure 3) and lower rates of oxygen evolution (Figure 10). Such a model is also consistent with the diffuse ROS staining observed in CC-2343, as the mismatch in light input and downstream assimilatory capacity could result in the accumulation of not just H2O2, but also 1O2 and O2.- (Peng et al., 2016b), forms of ROS that may reflect high levels of oxidative damage.
Eco-physiological implications
For over a hundred years it has been known that Chlamydomonas strains show distinct pyrenoid structures (Pasher, 1918), although the physiological implications of these natural variations remain poorly understood. A few studies have noted structural differences in pyrenoid starch sheaths, and linked these differences to environmental CO2 or organic carbon availability (Morita et al., 1998; Morita et al., 1999; Nozaki et al., 1994).
As discussed above, it is well established that the pyrenoid can allow algae to overcome critical limitations of low CO2 levels often encountered in aqueous environments. However, under very high CO2 levels, which are also encountered in certain environments, the sequestering of rubisco into the pyrenoid may impose rate limitations, or additional energy requirements, at the level of pumping of bicarbonate. Also, when rubisco is outside of the pyrenoid, it is thought that more of its surface area is exposed and its catalytic rate increases (Badger et al., 1998). A fragmented starch sheath may more easily allow migration in and out of the pyrenoid matrix. In two species of Gonium, the species with the more porous starch sheaths exhibited a higher ratio of rubisco migrating out of the pyrenoid in response to the addition of sodium acetate (Nozaki et al., 1994). Among closely related Chlamydomonas and Chloromonas strains, those with tight (which were termed ‘typical’) pyrenoids were able to accumulate higher levels of inorganic carbon when CO2 was low compared to those with fragmented or porous (termed ‘atypical’) pyrenoid starch sheaths (Morita et al., 1999). On the other hand, Chloromonas species closely related to Chlamydomonas but lacking pyrenoids showed higher rates of max O2 evolution when grown under elevated CO2 (Morita et al., 1998), which could be attributed to the greater accessibility of rubisco to diffusible CO2.
Some algae lack pyrenoids altogether and are found in environments expected to have high CO2 and low or atmospheric oxygen levels. For example, Coccomyxa, an aerial grown lichen photobiont, completely lacks pyrenoids (Palmqvist et al., 1994; Palmqvist et al., 1995). Compared to that in Chlamydomonas, Coccomyxa prefers CO2 as a substrate over HCO3-, similar to C3 plant cells (Palmqvist et al., 1994; Palmqvist et al., 1995). It is important to note, though, that exposure to air allows for rapid diffusion of O2: Even high rates of photosynthesis in Coccomyxa will not result in hyperoxia. In light of these studies, it seems fitting that CC-2343 and the progeny with porous pyrenoids grew better on a TAP plate exposed to air, and that rubisco most freely distributes through the chloroplast in Chlamydomonas when grown mixotrophically exposed to air, rather than aquatically (Appendix 1—figure 7).
By contrast, green algae can generate strongly hyperoxic conditions in the water specifically when inorganic carbon is plentiful. Our demonstration that pyrenoids are induced under these conditions suggests that they can function, in addition to overcoming slow assimilation when CO2 is limiting, in preventing damage caused by high levels of the product O2. Inducing the CCM should both increase the concentration of CO2 above its KM at rubisco and outcompete O2 at the rubisco active site. Higher O2 levels (under hyperoxia) will require correspondingly higher local CO2 levels, in turn requiring tighter diffusional barriers to the escape of CO2 from the pyrenoid (Wang et al., 2015; Yamano et al., 2015). It is also possible that the tight starch sheaths will partially block O2 from diffusing into the pyrenoid, and if the uptake of O2 by rubisco is faster than its replacement by diffusion across the sheath, such a barrier could effectively decrease the O2 levels in the matrix.
Conclusions
The work presented above leads us to propose that, under combinations of light, high O2 and/or low CO2, the production of H2O2 becomes elevated, activating the formation of the pyrenoid and thickening of the starch sheath, leading to the classical response that allows cells to better discriminate between CO2 and O2 (Aizawa and Miyachi, 1986; Badger et al., 1980; Borkhsenious et al., 1998; Manuel and Moroney, 1988; Ramazanov et al., 1994; Spalding et al., 1983). We demonstrate that the pyrenoid, a key component of the algal CCM, can be induced under high CO2, by hyperoxia or H2O2. Our results strengthen the ‘metabolite signaling hypothesis,’ (Spalding, 2009), which can explain the regulation of pyrenoid formation by multiple photosynthetic conditions, including CO2, O2, and its light dependence. Our results further suggest that differences in this signaling contribute, at least in part, to the observed natural varaition in pyrenoids (Pasher, 1918) as well as tolerances to hyperoxia. Several open questions remain, including whether a H2O2 signal works alone or in conjunction with a CO2 signal for some aspects of the CCM, the precise nature and scope of the H2O2 response, the biochemical and genetic components involved, and whether more robust pyrenoid structures, by themselves, can improve growth under hyperoxia.
Appendix 1
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The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
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David M Kramer, Email: kramerd8@msu.edu.
Heather E McFarlane, University of Toronto, Canada.
Jürgen Kleine-Vehn, University of Freiburg, Germany.
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This paper was supported by the following grants:
U.S. Department of Energy DE-FG02-91ER20021 to Peter Neofotis, Oliver L Tessmer, Jacob Bibik, Nicole Norris, Eric Pollner, Ben Lucker, Sarathi Wijetilleke, Alecia Withrow, Greg Mogos, David Hall, David M Kramer, Joshua Temple.
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company to Peter Neofotis, Oliver L Tessmer, Jacob Bibik, Nicole Norris, Eric Pollner, Ben Lucker, Sarathi Wijetilleke, Alecia Withrow, Greg Mogos, Melinda Frame, Joseph Weissman, David M Kramer, Joshua Temple.
AgBioResearch, Michigan State University to David M Kramer.
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