title: Photoregulation of cellular morphology during complementary chromatic adaptation requires sensor-kinase-class protein RcaE in Fremyella diplosiphon.
abstract: We used wild-type UTEX481; SF33, a shortened-filament mutant strain that shows normal complementary chromatic adaptation pigmentation responses; and FdBk14, an RcaE-deficient strain that lacks light-dependent pigmentation responses, to investigate the molecular basis of the photoregulation of cellular morphology in the cyanobacterium Fremyella diplosiphon. Detailed microscopic and biochemical analyses indicate that RcaE is required for the photoregulation of cell and filament morphologies of F. diplosiphon in response to red and green light.
authors.affiliation: Department of Energy - Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, 106 Plant Biology Building, East Lansing, MI 48824-1312, USA.
authors.forename: Juliana R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Bordowitz
authors.forename: Beronda L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Montgomery
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological / Q000502:physiology*; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D000458:Cyanobacteria / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000528:radiation effects; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial / Q000528:radiation effects*; D008027:Light; D045342:Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D009154:Mutation
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D045342:Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes; C101088:RcaE protein, cyanobacteria