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Plant Physiol, July 2000, Vol. 123, pp. 1047-1056

Ionic and Osmotic Effects of NaCl-Induced Inactivation of Photosystems I and II in Synechococcus sp.1

Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev, Atsushi Sakamoto, Yoshitaka Nishiyama, Masami Inaba, and Norio Murata*

Department of Regulation Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan (S.I.A., A.S., Y.N., M.I., N.M.); and Institute of Basic Biological Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, 142292 Russia (S.I.A.)

We report here that osmotic effects and ionic effects are both involved in the NaCl-induced inactivation of the photosynthetic machinery in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942. Incubation of the cyanobacterial cells in 0.5 M NaCl induced a rapid and reversible decline and subsequent slow and irreversible loss of the oxygen-evolving activity of photosystem (PS) II and the electron transport activity of PSI. An Na+-channel blocker protected both PSII and PSI against the slow, but not the rapid, inactivation. The rapid decline resembled the effect of 1.0 M sorbitol. The presence of both an Na+-channel blocker and a water-channel blocker protected PSI and PSII against the short- and long-term effects of NaCl. Salt stress also decreased cytoplasmic volume and this effect was enhanced by the Na+-channel blocker. Our observations suggested that NaCl had both osmotic and ionic effects. The osmotic effect decreased the amount of water in the cytosol, rapidly increasing the intracellular concentration of salts. The ionic effect was caused by an influx of Na+ ions through potassium/Na+ channels that also increased concentrations of salts in the cytosol and irreversibly inactivated PSI and PSII.

1 This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research (no. 08102011 to N.M.) from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Japan, and in part by the National Institute for Basic Biology Cooperative Research Program on the Stress Tolerance of Plants.

* Corresponding author; e-mail murata{at}nibb.ac.jp; fax 81-564-54-4866.

© 2000 American Society of Plant Physiologists


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