Single-cell microfluidics in combination with chlorophyll a fluorescence measurements to assess the lifetime of the Chlamydomonas PSBO protein

Széles, Eszter and Kuntam, Soujanya and Vidal-Meireles, Andre and Nagy, Valéria and Nagy, K. and Ábrahám, Á. and Kovács, László and Tóth, Szilvia Zita (2023) Single-cell microfluidics in combination with chlorophyll a fluorescence measurements to assess the lifetime of the Chlamydomonas PSBO protein. PHOTOSYNTHETICA, 61 (SI). pp. 13-20. ISSN 0300-3604 (In Press)

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Abstract

PSBO is an essential subunit of the oxygen-evolving complex and we recently demonstrated that its lifetime depends on environmental conditions in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. To assess PSBO lifetime with a high time resolution, we employed (1) a microfluidic platform enabling the trapping of single cells and the parallel measurement of photosynthetic activity, and (2) a nitrate-inducible PSBO amiRNA line. Our microfluidic platform allowed the rapid replacement of the nutrient solution necessary for induction. It also enabled the precise monitoring of the decline in the Fv/Fm value, reflecting PSBO loss. We found that in the dark, at medium and high light intensity, the Fv/Fm value decreased with halftimes of about 25, 12.5, and 5 h, respectively. We also observed that photosynthetic activity was better sustained upon carbon limitation. In the absence of acetate, the halftimes of Fv/Fm diminishment doubled to quadrupled compared with the control, acetate-supplied cultures.

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