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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 116, Issue 34, Pages 16915-16920Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1909706116
Keywords
Chlamydomonas; CO2 concentrating mechanism; bicarbonate transport; photosynthesis; chloroplast thylakoid
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- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/R001014/1]
- Leverhulme Trust [RPG-2017-402]
- University of York
- University of Illinois as part of the Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency project - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research
- United Kingdom Aid
- BBSRC [BB/R001014/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii possesses a CO2 concentrating mechanism (CCM) that helps in successful acclimation to low CO2 conditions. Current models of the CCM postulate that a series of ion transporters bring HCO3- from outside the cell to the thylakoid lumen, where the carbonic anhydrase 3 (CAH3) dehydrates accumulated HCO3- to CO2, raising the CO2 concentration for Ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco). Previously, HCO3- transporters have been identified at both the plasma membrane and the chloroplast envelope, but the transporter thought to be on the thylakoid membrane has not been identified. Three paralogous genes (BST1, BST2, and BST3) belonging to the bestrophin family have been found to be up-regulated in low CO2 conditions, and their expression is controlled by CIA5, a transcription factor that controls many CCM genes. YFP fusions demonstrate that all 3 proteins are located on the thylakoid membrane, and interactome studies indicate that they might associate with chloroplast CCM components. A single mutant defective in BST3 has near-normal growth on low CO2, indicating that the 3 bestrophin-like proteins may have redundant functions. Therefore, an RNA interference (RNAi) approach was adopted to reduce the expression of all 3 genes at once. RNAi mutants with reduced expression of BST1-3 were unable to grow at low CO2 concentrations, exhibited a reduced affinity to inorganic carbon (Ci) compared with the wild-type cells, and showed reduced Ci uptake. We propose that these bestrophin-like proteins are essential components of the CCM that deliver HCO3- accumulated in the chloroplast stroma to CAH3 inside the thylakoid lumen.
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