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This work reports on the regulation of synthesis of the P700 chlorophyll-a apoprotein of photosystem I in barley. The mRNA for the P700 apoprotein is almost exclusively confined to the plastid membrane-bound polysomes. However, the mRNA for the 32-kDa herbicide-binding protein of photosystem II is found in both the soluble and membrane-bound polysomes.
The mRNA for the P700 apoprotein is found in similar amounts in dark-grown and light-grown wild-type as well as mutant xantha-l81 barley. The latter mutant is deficient in chlorophyll biosynthesis. However, while wild-type leaves accumulate the P700 chlorophyll-a protein only in the light, mutant leaves never accumulate the P700 apoprotein.
A more sensitive approach was taken using isolated plastids to study P700 apoprotein synthesis. Etioplasts did not synthesize detectable P700 apoprotein even when the etioplasts were exposed to light. However, only a 1-min exposure of leaves to light was necessary to induce P700 apoprotein synthesis by isolated plastids.
Phytochrome involvement in controlling P700 apoprotein synthesis was tested by using red/farred light treatment of leaves. These treatments showed no far-red reversibility of red-induced P700-apoprotein synthesis in isolated plastids even after 3 h of darkness after the light treatments. From these data we conclude that the accumulation of P700 apopootein is not under the control of phytochrome and that the light induction of P700 apoprotein is most likely mediated through the protochlorophyllide/chlorophyllide system. This control, however, may also involve cytoplasmic signals as the synthesis of the P700 apoprotein is not turned on in illuminated etioplasts.
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Laing, W., Kreuz, K. & Apel, K. Light-dependent, but phytochrome-independent, translational control of the accumulation of the P700 chlorophyll-a protein of photosystem I in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). Planta 176, 269–276 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00392455
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