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Metabolism and Enzymology

Ethoxyzolamide Inhibition of CO₂-Dependent Photosynthesis in the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC7942 ¹

Plant Environmental Biology Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, P.O. Box 475, Canberra City, A.C.T. 2601, Australia

Cells of the cyanobacterium, Synechococcus PCC7942, grown under high inorganic carbon (C_i) conditions (1% CO₂; pH 8) were found to be photosynthetically dependent on exogenous CO₂. This was judged by the fact that they had a similar photosynthetic affinity for CO₂ (K_0.5[CO₂] of 3.4-5.4 micromolar) over the pH range 7 to 9 and that the low photosynthetic affinity for C_i measured in dense cell suspensions was improved by the addition of exogenous carbonic anhydrase (CA). The CA inhibitor, ethoxyzolamide (EZ), was shown to reduce photosynthetic affinity for CO₂ in high C_i cells. The addition of 200 micromolar EZ to high C_i cells increased K_0.5(CO₂) from 4.6 micromolar to more than 155 micromolar at pH 8.0, whereas low C_i cells (grown at 30 microliters CO₂ per liter of air) were less sensitive to EZ. EZ inhibition in high and low C_i cells was largely relieved by increasing exogenous C_i up to 100 millimolar. Lipid soluble CA inhibitors such as EZ and chlorazolamide were shown to be the most effective inhibitors of CO₂ usage, whereas water soluble CA inhibitors such as methazolamide and acetazolamide had little or no effect. EZ was found to cause a small drop in photosystem II activity, but this level of inhibition was not sufficient to explain the large effect that EZ had on CO₂ usage. High C_i cells of Anabaena variabilis M3 and Synechocystis PCC6803 were also found to be sensitive to 200 micromolar EZ. We discuss the possibility that the inhibitory effect of EZ on CO₂ usage in high C_i cells of Synechococcus PCC7942 may be due to inhibition of a `CA-like' function associated with the CO₂ utilizing C_i pump or due to inhibition of an internal CA activity, thus affecting CO₂ supply to ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase.

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