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Plant and Cell Physiology 2005 46(5):729-735; doi:10.1093/pcp/pci079
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The Formation of Zn-Chl a in Chlorella Heterotrophically Grown in the Dark with an Excessive Amount of Zn2+

Isamu Ikegami1, Aki Nemoto and Kohki Sakashita

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo University, Sagamiko, Kanagawa, 199-0195 Japan

1 Corresponding author: E-mail, i-ike{at}pharm.teikyo-u.ac.jp; Fax, +81-426-85-2713.

Chlorella, when heterotrophically cultivated in the dark, is able to grow with Zn2+ at 10–40 mM, which is 10 times the concentration lethal to autotrophically grown cells. However, the lag phase is prolonged with increasing concentrations of Zn2+; for example, in this study, 1 d of the control lag phase was prolonged to about 16 d with Zn2+ at 16.7 mM (x2,000 of the control). Once the cells started to grow, the log phase was finished within 4–6 d regardless of Zn concentration, which was almost the same as that of the control. The photosysystem I reaction center chlorophyll, P700, and the far-red fluorescence were detected only after the late log phase of the growth curve, suggesting that chlorophyll–protein complexes can be organized after cell division has ceased. Interestingly, at more than 16.7 mM of Zn2+, Zn-chlorophyll a was accumulated and finally accounted for about 25% of the total chlorophyll a in the late stationary phase. We found that the Zn-chlorophyll a was present in the thylakoid membranes and not in the soluble fractions of the cells. The rather low fluorescence yield at around 680 nm in the stationary phase suggests that Zn-chlorophyll a can transfer its excitation energy to other chlorophylls. Before accumulation of Zn-chlorophyll a, a marked amount of pheophytin a was temporally accumulated, suggesting that Zn-chlorophyll a could be chemically synthesized via pheophytin a.

(Received September 22, 2004; Accepted February 16, 2005 )
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