Inorganic carbon acquisition in red-tide dinoflagellates.

Rost, B., Richter, K.-U., Riebesell, Ulf and Hansen, P.J. (2006) Inorganic carbon acquisition in red-tide dinoflagellates. Plant Cell and Environment, 29 (5). pp. 810-822. DOI 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2005.01450.x.

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Abstract

Carbon acquisition was investigated in three marine bloom-forming dinoflagellates – Prorocentrum minimum, Heterocapsa triquetra and Ceratium lineatum. In vivo activities of extracellular and intracellular carbonic anhydrase (CA), photosynthetic O2 evolution, CO2 and HCO3– uptake rates were measured by membrane inlet mass spectrometry (MIMS) in cells acclimated to low pH (8.0) and high pH (8.5 or 9.1). A second approach used short-term 14C-disequilibrium incubations to estimate the carbon source utilized by the cells. All three species showed negligible extracellular CA (eCA) activity in cells acclimated to low pH and only slightly higher activity when acclimated to high pH. Intracellular CA (iCA) activity was present in all three species, but it increased only in P. minimum with increasing pH. Half-saturation concentrations (K1/2) for photosynthetic O2 evolution were low compared to ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) kinetics. Moreover, apparent affinities for inorganic carbon (Ci) increased with increasing pH in the acclimation, indicating the operation of an efficient CO2 concentration mechanism (CCM) in these dinoflagellates. Rates of CO2 uptake were comparably low and could not support the observed rates of photosynthesis. Consequently, rates of HCO3– uptake were high in the investigated species, contributing more than 80% of the photosynthetic carbon fixation. The affinity for HCO3– and maximum uptake rates increased under higher pH. The strong preference for HCO3– was also confirmed by the 14C-disequilibrium technique. Modes of carbon acquisition were consistent with the 13C-fractionation pattern observed and indicated a strong species-specific difference in leakage. These results suggest that photosynthesis in marine dinoflagellates is not limited by Ci even at high pH, which may occur during red tides in coastal waters.

Document Type: Article
Keywords: Ceratium lineatum; Heterocapsa triquetra; Prorocentrum minimum; 13C fractionation; CO2 concentrating mechanism; CO2 uptake; HCO3 – uptake; pH; photosynthesis
Research affiliation: Kiel University
OceanRep > GEOMAR > FB2 Marine Biogeochemistry > FB2-BI Biological Oceanography
HGF-AWI
Refereed: Yes
Open Access Journal?: No
Publisher: Wiley
Date Deposited: 03 Dec 2008 16:52
Last Modified: 23 Sep 2019 21:01
URI: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/6598

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