The nuclear‐coded 22 kd heat‐shock protein (HSP‐22) which is transported into the chloroplast and localized in the thylakoids was further characterized and found to be located in the grana lamellae (stacked thylakoids) as an extrinsic protein in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Inhibition of photosynthetic electron flow during heat‐shock of Chlamydomonas cells was light‐dependent, occurring at low‐light intensities (<100 W/m2) as compared with photoinhibition at 25°C (>1000 W/m2). The site of the damage was localized at the photosystem II (PS II) reaction center. The damage was drastically increased when heat‐shock treatment was carried out in the presence of the 80S ribosomal translation inhibitor, cycloheximide (CHI). Pre‐incubation of Chlamydomonas cells at 42°C resulted in partial protection against photoinhibition during heat‐shock, as compared with cells pre‐incubated at 42°C in the presence of CHI which, therefore, did not translate the heat‐shock proteins. Analysis of the thylakoid polypeptides' pattern by SDS‐PAGE revealed that during heat‐shock in the light, thylakoid proteins became aggregated proportionally to the light intensity. Heat‐shock in the presence of CHI enhanced the aggregation process which, at low light intensities, was specific to the PS II reaction center D1‐protein. The results suggest that the chloroplasts HSPs prevent damage to the PS II reaction center during heat‐shock in the light.
A cDNA clone, pCHS62, was isolated using poly(A)-rich RNA from heat-shocked Chlumydomonus reinhurdtii cells. The clone has a length of 1.1 kb and codes for the complete heat-shock protein which was reported to be associated with the grana region of the thylakoid membranes and ascribes protection against photoinhibition during heat-shock. An expression vector prepared in the pUC19 plasmid was used to obtain a fusion protein against which rabbit polyclonal antibodies have been raised. The antibodies react specifically with the heat-shock protein of 22 kDa synthesized in vivo during heat-shock, which is localized in the grana thylakoids, with the in vitro translated product using poly(A)-rich RNA from heat-treated cells as well as with the hybrid release translation product of the pCHS62 clone. The clone was sequenced. It contains a 5' region consisting of 85 nucleotides, an open reading frame of 471 nucleotides and a non-coding 3' region of 600 nucleotides. Northern hybridization indicates a length of 1.7 kb for the messenger RNA of heat-shock protein 22. Analysis of similarity between the derived amino acid sequence of this protein and other heat-shock proteins demonstrates that this protein belongs to the small-molecular-mass plant heat-shock protein family and also shows similarities with animal heat-shock proteins including the presence of a short region possessing similarity with bovine a-crystalline as reported for other heat-shock proteins. The molecular mass of the protein as determined from the sequence is 16.8 kDa. Despite its localization in the chloroplast membranes, it does not seem to include a transit peptide sequence, in agreement with previous data. The sequence contains only a short hydrophobic region compatible with its previously reported localization as a thylakoid extrinsic protein.In response to a sudden elevation of temperature, a number of specific genes, termed heat-shock genes, are activated in both procaryotic and eucaryotic cells [ 11. Following induction, a rapid transcription and preferential translation of the corresponding heat-shock mRNAs takes place and results in a significant accumulation of the heat-shock proteins [2]. In accordance with the universality of the heat-shock response, a relatively high degree of similarity characterizes heat-shock proteins from various organisms. In higher plants smallmolecular-mass heat-shock proteins (1 5 -30 kDa) represent a particularly prominent and heterogeneous group of proteins coded by multigene families [3 -61. The complexity and the diversity in the sizes of the low-molecular-mass heat-shock proteins seem to indicate a lower degree of similarity, in contrast to the high degree of conservation in the amino acid sequences of the high-molecular-mass heat-shock proteins common to both the plant and animal kingdoms. Like their high-molecular-mass counterparts, the small heat-shock proteins in plants are nuclear-coded and translated on cytosolic ribosomes. The majority of them remain in the cytosol and become associated with the cytoskeleton...
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