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Article Dans Une Revue Biochimica biophysica acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics Année : 2024

In vivo ElectroChromic Shift measurements of photosynthetic activity in far-red absorbing cyanobacteria

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Some cyanobacteria can do photosynthesis using not only visible but also far-red light that is unused by most other oxygenic photoautotrophs because of its lower energy content. These species have a modified photosynthetic apparatus containing red-shifted pigments. The incorporation of red-shifted pigments decreases the photochemical efficiency of photosystem I and, especially, photosystem II, and it might affect the distribution of excitation energy between the two photosystems with possible consequences on the activity of the entire electron transport chain. To investigate the in vivo effects on photosynthetic activity of these pigment changes, we present here the adaptation of a spectroscopic method, based on a physical phenomenon called ElectroChromic Shift (ECS), to the far-red absorbing cyanobacteria Acaryochloris marina and Chroococcidiopsis thermalis PCC7203. ECS measures the electric field component of the trans-thylakoid proton motive force generated by photosynthetic electron transfer. We show that ECS can be used in these cyanobacteria to investigate in vivo the stoichiometry of photosystem I and photosystem II and their absorption cross-section, as well as the overall efficiency of light energy conversion into electron transport. Our results indicate that both species use visible and far-red light with similar efficiency, despite significant differences in their light absorption characteristics. ECS thus represents a new non-invasive tool to study the performance of naturally occurring far-red photosynthesis.
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cea-04674697 , version 1 (21-08-2024)

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Julien Sellés, Jean Alric, A William Rutherford, Geoffry A Davis, Stefania Viola. In vivo ElectroChromic Shift measurements of photosynthetic activity in far-red absorbing cyanobacteria. Biochimica biophysica acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 2024, 1865 (4), pp.149502. ⟨10.1016/j.bbabio.2024.149502⟩. ⟨cea-04674697⟩
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