Identification of distinct pH-and zeaxanthin-dependent quenching in LHCSR3 from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

  1. Julianne M Troiano
  2. Federico Perozeni
  3. Raymundo Moya
  4. Luca Zuliani
  5. Kwangyrul Baek
  6. EonSeon Jin
  7. Stefano Cazzaniga
  8. Matteo Ballottari  Is a corresponding author
  9. Gabriela S Schlau-Cohen  Is a corresponding author
  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
  2. University of Verona, Italy
  3. Hanyang University, Republic of Korea

Abstract

Under high light, oxygenic photosynthetic organisms avoid photodamage by thermally dissipating absorbed energy, which is called non-photochemical quenching. In green algae, a chlorophyll and carotenoid-binding protein, light-harvesting complex stress-related (LHCSR3), detects excess energy via a pH drop and serves as a quenching site. Using a combined in vivo and in vitro approach, we investigated quenching within LHCSR3 from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. In vitro two distinct quenching processes, individually controlled by pH and zeaxanthin, were identified within LHCSR3. The pH-dependent quenching was removed within a mutant LHCSR3 that lacks the residues that are protonated to sense the pH drop. Observation of quenching in zeaxanthin-enriched LHCSR3 even at neutral pH demonstrated zeaxanthin-dependent quenching, which also occurs in other light-harvesting complexes. Either pH- or zeaxanthin-dependent quenching prevented the formation of damaging reactive oxygen species, and thus the two quenching processes may together provide different induction and recovery kinetics for photoprotection in a changing environment.

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Source data files have been provided for Figures 1A and 3.Single-molecule photon emission data for Figures 1B-D and 2 has been deposited on Zenodo.org and is available at 10.5281/zenodo.4306869

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  1. Julianne M Troiano

    Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
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  2. Federico Perozeni

    Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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  3. Raymundo Moya

    Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
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  4. Luca Zuliani

    Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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  5. Kwangyrul Baek

    Department of Life Science, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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  6. EonSeon Jin

    Department of Life Science, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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  7. Stefano Cazzaniga

    Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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  8. Matteo Ballottari

    Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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    matteo.ballottari@univr.it
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  9. Gabriela S Schlau-Cohen

    Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
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    gssc@mit.edu
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Funding

Human Frontiers Science Program (RGY0076)

  • Gabriela S Schlau-Cohen

National Science Foundation (CHE-1740645)

  • Gabriela S Schlau-Cohen

H2020 European Research Council (679814)

  • Matteo Ballottari

Korea Ministry of Science and ICT (NRF-2014M1A8A1049273)

  • EonSeon Jin

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation (Postdoctoral Fellowship)

  • Julianne M Troiano

National Science Foundation (Graduate Research Fellowship)

  • Raymundo Moya

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation (Beckman Young Investigator)

  • Gabriela S Schlau-Cohen

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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  1. David M Kramer, Michigan State University, United States

Version history

  1. Received: June 24, 2020
  2. Accepted: January 14, 2021
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: January 15, 2021 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: February 5, 2021 (version 2)

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© 2021, Troiano et al.

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  1. Julianne M Troiano
  2. Federico Perozeni
  3. Raymundo Moya
  4. Luca Zuliani
  5. Kwangyrul Baek
  6. EonSeon Jin
  7. Stefano Cazzaniga
  8. Matteo Ballottari
  9. Gabriela S Schlau-Cohen
(2021)
Identification of distinct pH-and zeaxanthin-dependent quenching in LHCSR3 from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
eLife 10:e60383.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.60383

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