The High Light Response and Redox Control of Thylakoid FtsH Protease in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Wang, F., Qi, Y., Malnoë, A., Choquet, Y., Wollman, F., & de Vitry, C. Molecular Plant, 10(1):99–114, January, 2017.
The High Light Response and Redox Control of Thylakoid FtsH Protease in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
In Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, the major protease involved in the maintenance of photosynthetic machinery in thylakoid membranes, the FtsH protease, mostly forms large hetero-oligomers (∼1 MDa) comprising FtsH1 and FtsH2 subunits, whatever the light intensity for growth. Upon high light exposure, the FtsH subunits display a shorter half-life, which is counterbalanced by an increase in FTSH1/2 mRNA levels, resulting in the modest upregulation of FtsH1/2 proteins. Furthermore, we found that high light increases the protease activity through a hitherto unnoticed redox-controlled reduction of intermolecular disulfide bridges. We isolated a Chlamydomonas FTSH1 promoter-deficient mutant, ftsh1-3, resulting from the insertion of a TOC1 transposon, in which the high light-induced upregulation of FTSH1 gene expression is largely lost. In ftsh1-3, the abundance of FtsH1 and FtsH2 proteins are loosely coupled (decreased by 70% and 30%, respectively) with no formation of large and stable homo-oligomers. Using strains exhibiting different accumulation levels of the FtsH1 subunit after complementation of ftsh1-3, we demonstrate that high light tolerance is tightly correlated with the abundance of the FtsH protease. Thus, the response of Chlamydomonas to light stress involves higher levels of FtsH1/2 subunits associated into large complexes with increased proteolytic activity.
@article{wang_high_2017,
	title = {The {High} {Light} {Response} and {Redox} {Control} of {Thylakoid} {FtsH} {Protease} in {Chlamydomonas} reinhardtii},
	volume = {10},
	issn = {16742052},
	url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1674205216302210},
	doi = {10.1016/j.molp.2016.09.012},
	abstract = {In Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, the major protease involved in the maintenance of photosynthetic machinery in thylakoid membranes, the FtsH protease, mostly forms large hetero-oligomers (∼1 MDa) comprising FtsH1 and FtsH2 subunits, whatever the light intensity for growth. Upon high light exposure, the FtsH subunits display a shorter half-life, which is counterbalanced by an increase in FTSH1/2 mRNA levels, resulting in the modest upregulation of FtsH1/2 proteins. Furthermore, we found that high light increases the protease activity through a hitherto unnoticed redox-controlled reduction of intermolecular disulfide bridges. We isolated a Chlamydomonas FTSH1 promoter-deficient mutant, ftsh1-3, resulting from the insertion of a TOC1 transposon, in which the high light-induced upregulation of FTSH1 gene expression is largely lost. In ftsh1-3, the abundance of FtsH1 and FtsH2 proteins are loosely coupled (decreased by 70\% and 30\%, respectively) with no formation of large and stable homo-oligomers. Using strains exhibiting different accumulation levels of the FtsH1 subunit after complementation of ftsh1-3, we demonstrate that high light tolerance is tightly correlated with the abundance of the FtsH protease. Thus, the response of Chlamydomonas to light stress involves higher levels of FtsH1/2 subunits associated into large complexes with increased proteolytic activity.},
	language = {en},
	number = {1},
	urldate = {2021-06-07},
	journal = {Molecular Plant},
	author = {Wang, Fei and Qi, Yafei and Malnoë, Alizée and Choquet, Yves and Wollman, Francis-André and de Vitry, Catherine},
	month = jan,
	year = {2017},
	pages = {99--114},
}

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