High-fluence blue light stimulates transcription from a higher plant chloroplast psbA promoter expressed in a cyanobacterium, Synechococcus (sp. strain PCC7942)

Nicholas F. Tsinoremas; Alana Kawakami; David A. Christopher

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029562

High-fluence blue light stimulates transcription from a higher plant chloroplast psbA promoter expressed in a cyanobacterium, Synechococcus (sp. strain PCC7942)

Nicholas F. Tsinoremas, Alana Kawakami, David A. Christopher

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Abstract

High-fluence white and blue light, but not red light, enhanced transcription of the barley chloroplast psbA promoter when heterologously expressed as a lacZ transcriptional fusion in the cyanobacterium, Synechococcus sp. strain PCC7942. Analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana phytochrome mutants, phyAphyB and hy2, indicated that a distinct blue phototransduction pathway stimulates psbA expression. The evolutionary implications of these findings are discussed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	448-452
Number of pages	5
Journal	Plant and Cell Physiology
Volume	40
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029562
State	Published - 1999
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana
Blue light
Chloroplast
Promoter
Synechococcus
Transcription

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Plant Science
Physiology
Cell Biology

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High-fluence blue light stimulates transcription from a higher plant chloroplast psbA promoter expressed in a cyanobacterium, Synechococcus (sp. strain PCC7942)

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