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Biosynthetic Cause of in Vivo Acquired Thermotolerance of Photosynthetic Light Reactions and Metabolic Responses of Chloroplasts to Heat Stress

Central Institute of Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic, 4325 Gatersleben, GDR, Institute of Plant Physiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Acad. G. Bonchev Street 21, Bulgaria

Thermotolerance of photosynthetic light reactions in vivo is correlated with a decrease in the ratio of monogalactosyl diacylglycerol to digalactosyl diacylglycerol and an increased incorporation into thylakoid membranes of saturated digalactosyl diacylglycerol species. Although electron transport remains virtually intact in thermotolerant chloroplasts, thylakoid protein phosphorylation is strongly inhibited. The opposite is shown for thermosensitive chloroplasts in vivo. Heat stress causes reversible and irreversible inactivation of chloroplast protein synthesis in heat-adapted and nonadapted plants, respectively, but doe not greatly affect formation of rapidly turned-over 32 kilodalton proteins of photosystem II. The formation on cytoplasmic ribosomes and import by chloroplasts of thylakoid and stroma proteins remain preserved, although decreased in rate, at supraoptimal temperatures. Thermotolerant chloroplasts accumulate heat shock proteins in the stroma among which 22 kilodalton polypeptides predominate. We suggest that interactions of heat shock proteins with the outer chloroplast envelope membrane might enhance formation of digalactosyl diacylglycerol species. Furthermore, a heat-induced recompartmentalization of the chloroplast matrix that ensures effective transport of ATP from thylakoid membranes towards those sites inside the chloroplast and the cytoplasm where photosynthetically indispensable components and heat shock proteins are being formed is proposed as a metabolic strategy of plant cells to survive and recover from heat stress.

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