Blue light stimulates cyanobacterial motility via a cAMP signal transduction system
- 18 February 2004
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Molecular Microbiology
- Vol. 52 (1) , 303-309
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2958.2003.03980.x
Abstract
The participation of cAMP in photosignal transduction in cyanobacteria was investigated. When cells of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 were exposed to light, cellular cAMP contents increased within a few minutes. Among incident monochromatic lights, blue light (450 nm) markedly increased cellular cAMP content, while red (630 nm) and far-red (720 nm) lights did not. Disruption of the cya1 gene encoding an adenylate cyclase caused the insensitivity of cellular cAMP level to blue light. Treatment of wild-type cells with the flavin antagonist phenylacetic acid inhibited this blue light effect. The motility of wild-type cells was enhanced by blue light, whereas that of cya1 mutant cells was not. Based on these results, we concluded that a blue light-cAMP signal transduction system stimulates the motility of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.Keywords
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