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Volume 158, Issue 2

Low-carbon acclimation in carboxysome-less and photorespiratory mutants of the cyanobacterium sp. strain PCC 6803 Free

Abstract

Using metabolic and transcriptomic phenotyping, we studied acclimation of cyanobacteria to low inorganic carbon (LC) conditions and the requirements for coordinated alteration of metabolism and gene expression. To analyse possible metabolic signals for LC sensing and compensating reactions, the carboxysome-less mutant Δ and the photorespiratory mutant Δ/ were compared with wild-type (WT) . Metabolic phenotyping revealed accumulation of 2-phosphoglycolate (2PG) in Δ and of glycolate in Δ/ in LC- but also in high inorganic carbon (HC)-grown mutant cells. The accumulation of photorespiratory metabolites provided evidence for the oxygenase activity of RubisCO at HC. The global gene expression patterns of HC-grown Δ and Δ/ showed differential expression of many genes involved in photosynthesis, high-light stress and N assimilation. In contrast, the transcripts of LC-specific genes, such as those for inorganic carbon transporters and components of the carbon-concentrating mechanism (CCM), remained unchanged in HC cells. After a shift to LC, Δ/ and WT cells displayed induction of many of the LC-inducible genes, whereas Δ lacked similar changes in expression. From the coincidence of the presence of 2PG in Δ without CCM induction and of glycolate in Δ/ with CCM induction, we regard a direct role for 2PG as a metabolic signal for the induction of CCM during LC acclimation as less likely. Instead, our data suggest a potential role for glycolate as a signal molecule for enhanced expression of CCM genes.

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Low-carbon acclimation in carboxysome-less and photorespiratory mutants of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803
Microbiology 158, 398 (2012); https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.054544-0
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