Photosynthetica, 2018 (vol. 56), issue 1

Photosynthetica 2018, 56(1):342-353 | DOI: 10.1007/s11099-018-0774-z

Leptolyngbya CCM 4, a cyanobacterium with far-red photoacclimation from Cuatro Ciénegas Basin, México

C. Gómez-Lojero1,*, L. E. Leyva-Castillo1, P. Herrera-Salgado1, J. Barrera-Rojas1, E. Ríos-Castro2, E. B. Gutiérrez-Cirlos3
1 Departmento de Bioquímica, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del IPN, CdMx, Mexico
2 Laboratorio Nacional de Servicios Experimentales Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Tlanepantla, Mexico
3 Unidad de Biomedicina, FES-Iztacala UNAM, Tlanepantla, Mexico

A cyanobacterium containing phycobiliproteins with far-red acclimation was isolated from Pozas Rojas, Cuatro Ciénegas, México. It was named Leptolyngbya CCM 4 after phylogenetic analysis and a description of its morphological characteristics. Leptolyngbya was grown in far-red light. Sucrose-gradient analysis of the pigments revealed two different colored bands of phycobiliproteins. A band at 60% sucrose was a phycocyanin containing phycobilisome; at 35% sucrose, a new type of phycobiliprotein absorbed at 710 nm. SDS-PAGE revealed the presence of two types of core-membrane linkers. Analysis of the hydrophobic pigments extracted from the thylakoid membranes revealed Chl a, d, and f. The ratio of Chl f/a was reversibly changed from 1:12-16 under far-red light to an undetectable concentration of Chl f under white light. Cuatro Ciénegas, a place surrounded by the desert, is a new ecosystem where a cyanobacterium, which grows in farred light, was discovered.

Keywords: chlorophyll f; Cuatro Ciénegas Basin; far-red light; photosynthesis; phycobilisomes

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Gómez-Lojero, C., Leyva-Castillo, L.E., Herrera-Salgado, P., Barrera-Rojas, J., Ríos-Castro, E., & Gutiérrez-Cirlos, E.B. (2018). Leptolyngbya CCM 4, a cyanobacterium with far-red photoacclimation from Cuatro Ciénegas Basin, México. Photosynthetica, 56(1), 342-353. doi: 10.1007/s11099-018-0774-z.
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