著者
Tomonori Kashimoto Keita Miyake Mayuko Sato Kaisei Maeda Chikahiro Matsumoto Masahiko Ikeuchi Kiminori Toyooka Satoru Watanabe Yu Kanesaki Rei Narikawa
出版者
Applied Microbiology, Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Research Foundation
雑誌
The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology (ISSN:00221260)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.2019.11.008, (Released:2020-03-07)
参考文献数
43
被引用文献数
5

The cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina MBIC 11017 (A. marina 11017) possesses chlorophyll d (Chl. d) peaking at 698 nm as photosystem reaction center pigments, instead of chlorophyll a (Chl. a) peaking at 665 nm. About 95% of the total chlorophylls is Chl. d in A. marina 11017. In addition, A. marina 11017 possesses phycobilisome (PBS) supercomplex to harvest orange light and to transfer the absorbing energy to the photosystems. In this context, A. marina 11017 utilizes both far-red and orange light as the photosynthetic energy source. In the present study, we incubated A. marina 11017 cells under monochromatic orange and far-red light conditions and performed transcriptional and morphological studies by RNA-seq analysis and electron microscopy. Cellular absorption spectra, transcriptomic profiles, and microscopic observations demonstrated that PBS was highly accumulated under an orange light condition relative to a far-red light condition. Notably, transcription of one cpcBA operon encoding the phycobiliprotein of the phycocyanin was up-regulated under the orange light condition, but another operon was constitutively expressed under both conditions, indicating functional diversification of these two operons for light harvesting. Taking the other observations into consideration, we could illustrate the photoacclimation processes of A. marina 11017 in response to orange and far-red light conditions in detail.
著者
Shinya Yoshikawa Yu Kanesaki Akira Uemura Kazumasa Yamada Maiko Okajima Tatsuo Kaneko Kaori Ohki
出版者
Applied Microbiology, Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Research Foundation
雑誌
The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology (ISSN:00221260)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.2021.02.002, (Released:2021-07-10)
参考文献数
34
被引用文献数
3

A unicellular cyanobacterium that produces a large amount of exopolysaccharide (EPS) was isolated. The isolate, named Chroococcus sp. FPU101, grew between 20 and 30°C and at light intensities between 10 and 80 μmol m–2 s–1. Purified EPS from Chroococcus sp. FPU101 had a molecular size of 5.9 × 103 kDa and contained galactose, rhamnose, fucose, xylose, mannose, glucose, galacturonic acid, and glucuronic acid at a molar ratio of 17.2:15.9:14.1:11.0:9.6:9.5:13.0:9.7. The EPS content significantly increased when the NaCl concentration in the medium was increased from 1.7 to 100 mM. However, high NaCl concentrations did not significantly affect the molecular size or chemical composition of the EPS. The genes wza, wzb, wzc, wzx, wzy, and wzz that are involved in EPS synthesis were conserved in the genome of Chroococcus sp. FPU101, which was sequenced in this study. These results suggest that the Wzy-dependent pathway is potentially involved in EPS production in this organism.