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Plant and Cell Physiology, 2001, Vol. 42, No. 5 482-491
© 2001 Oxford University Press

Absence of Lutein, Violaxanthin and Neoxanthin Affects the Functional Chlorophyll Antenna Size of Photosystem-II but not that of Photosystem-I in the Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Juergen E. W. Polle, Krishna K. Niyogi and Anastasios Melis1

Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 411 Koshland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3102, U.S.A.

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii double mutant npq2 lor1 lacks the ß,{varepsilon}-carotenoids lutein and loroxanthin as well as all ß,ß-epoxycarotenoids derived from zeaxanthin (e.g. violaxanthin and neoxanthin). Thus, the only carotenoids present in the thylakoid membranes of the npq2 lor1 cells are ß-carotene and zeaxanthin. The effect of these mutations on the photochemical apparatus assembly and function was investigated. In cells of the mutant strain, the content of photosystem-II (PSII) and photosystem-I (PSI) was similar to that of the wild type, but npq2 lor1 had a significantly smaller PSII light-harvesting Chl antenna size. In contrast, the Chl antenna size of PSI was not truncated in the mutant. SDS-PAGE and Western blot analysis qualitatively revealed the presence of all LHCII and LHCI apoproteins in the thylakoid membrane of the mutant. The results showed that some of the LHCII and most of the LHCI were assembled and functionally connected with PSII and PSI, respectively. Photon conversion efficiency measurements, based on the initial slope of the light-saturation curve of photosynthesis and on the yield of Chl a fluorescence in vivo, showed similar efficiencies. However, a significantly greater light intensity was required for the saturation of photosynthesis in the mutant than in the wild type. It is concluded that zeaxanthin can successfully replace lutein and violaxanthin in most of the functional light-harvesting antenna of the npq2 lor1 mutant.

1 Corresponding author: E-mail, melis@nature.berkeley.edu; Fax, +1-510-642-4995.


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