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First published online October 11, 2007; 10.1104/pp.107.108480 Plant Physiology 145:1506-1520 (2007) © 2007 American Society of Plant Biologists
Zeaxanthin Has Enhanced Antioxidant Capacity with Respect to All Other Xanthophylls in Arabidopsis Leaves and Functions Independent of Binding to PSII Antennae1,[C],[W]CEA/Cadarache, Institut de Biologie Environnementale et Biotechnologie, Laboratoire d'Ecophysiologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Unité Mixte de Recherche 6191 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique-Aix Marseille University, F–13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France (M.H.); and Università di Verona, Dipartimento Scientifico e Tecnologico, I–37134 Verona, Italy (L.D., R.B.)
The ch1 mutant of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) lacks chlorophyll (Chl) b. Leaves of this mutant are devoid of photosystem II (PSII) Chl-protein antenna complexes and have a very low capacity of nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ) of Chl fluorescence. Lhcb5 was the only PSII antenna protein that accumulated to a significant level in ch1 mutant leaves, but the apoprotein did not assemble in vivo with Chls to form a functional antenna. The abundance of Lhca proteins was also reduced to approximately 20% of the wild-type level. ch1 was crossed with various xanthophyll mutants to analyze the antioxidant activity of carotenoids unbound to PSII antenna. Suppression of zeaxanthin by crossing ch1 with npq1 resulted in oxidative stress in high light, while removing other xanthophylls or the PSII protein PsbS had no such effect. The tocopherol-deficient ch1 vte1 double mutant was as sensitive to high light as ch1 npq1, and the triple mutant ch1 npq1 vte1 exhibited an extreme sensitivity to photooxidative stress, indicating that zeaxanthin and tocopherols have cumulative effects. Conversely, constitutive accumulation of zeaxanthin in the ch1 npq2 double mutant led to an increased phototolerance relative to ch1. Comparison of ch1 npq2 with another zeaxanthin-accumulating mutant (ch1 lut2) that lacks lutein suggests that protection of polyunsaturated lipids by zeaxanthin is enhanced when lutein is also present. During photooxidative stress,
1 This work was supported by the Italian Ministry of Research (Special Fund for Basic Research, FIRB RBLA0345SF–002) and by the Provincia Autonoma di Trento (grant no. SAMBAx2 to R.B. and L.D.). The author responsible for distribution of materials integral to the findings presented in this article in accordance with the policy described in the Instructions for Authors (www.plantphysiol.org) is: Michel Havaux (michel.havaux{at}cea.fr). [C] Some figures in this article are displayed in color online but in black and white in the print edition. [W] The online version of this article contains Web-only data. www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/doi/10.1104/pp.107.108480 * Corresponding author; e-mail michel.havaux{at}cea.fr. Received August 31, 2007; accepted October 1, 2007; published October 11, 2007. This article has been cited by other articles:
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-tocopherol noticeably decreased in ch1 npq1 and increased in ch1 npq2 relative to ch1, suggesting protection of vitamin E by high zeaxanthin levels. Our results indicate that the antioxidant activity of zeaxanthin, distinct from NPQ, can occur in the absence of PSII light-harvesting complexes. The capacity of zeaxanthin to protect thylakoid membrane lipids is comparable to that of vitamin E but noticeably higher than that of all other xanthophylls of Arabidopsis leaves. 
