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First published online March 10, 2006; 10.1105/tpc.105.040121

The Plant Cell 18:992-1007 (2006)
© 2006 American Society of Plant Biologists

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A Soluble Carotenoid Protein Involved in Phycobilisome-Related Energy Dissipation in Cyanobacteria

Adjélé Wilsona, Ghada Ajlanib, Jean-Marc Verbavatzb, Imre Vassc, Cheryl A. Kerfeldd and Diana Kirilovskya,1

a Unité de Recherche Associée 2096, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Service de Bioénergétique, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France
b Service de Biologie de Fonctionnes Membranaires, Département de Biologie Joliot-Curie, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique Saclay, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France
c Biological Research Center, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary
d Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1570

1 To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail diana.kirilovsky{at}cea.fr; fax 33-1-69088717.

Photosynthetic organisms have developed multiple protective mechanisms to survive under high-light conditions. In plants, one of these mechanisms is the thermal dissipation of excitation energy in the membrane-bound chlorophyll antenna of photosystem II. The question of whether or not cyanobacteria, the progenitor of the chloroplast, have an equivalent photoprotective mechanism has long been unanswered. Recently, however, evidence was presented for the possible existence of a mechanism dissipating excess absorbed energy in the phycobilisome, the extramembrane antenna of cyanobacteria. Here, we demonstrate that this photoprotective mechanism, characterized by blue light–induced fluorescence quenching, is indeed phycobilisome-related and that a soluble carotenoid binding protein, ORANGE CAROTENOID PROTEIN (OCP), encoded by the slr1963 gene in Synechocystis PCC 6803, plays an essential role in this process. Blue light is unable to quench fluorescence in the absence of phycobilisomes or OCP. The fluorescence quenching is not {Delta}pH-dependent, and it can be induced in the absence of the reaction center II or the chlorophyll antenna, CP43 and CP47. Our data suggest that OCP, which strongly interacts with the thylakoids, acts as both the photoreceptor and the mediator of the reduction of the amount of energy transferred from the phycobilisomes to the photosystems. These are novel roles for a soluble carotenoid protein.


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