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Lutein is needed for efficient chlorophyll triplet quenching in the major LHCII antenna complex of higher plants and effective photoprotection in vivo under strong light

Luca Dall'Osto1 email, Chiara Lico2 email, Jean Alric4,5 email, Giovanni Giuliano2 email, Michel Havaux3 email and Roberto Bassi1,4 email

Dipartimento Scientifico e Tecnologico, Università di Verona, Strada Le Grazie 15, I-37134 Verona, Italy

Ente per le Nuove tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente (ENEA), Unità Biotecnologie, Centro Ricerche Casaccia, C.P. 2400, Roma 00100, Italy

CEA/Cadarache, DSV, DEVM, Laboratoire d'Ecophysiologie de la Photosynthèse, UMR 6191 CEA-CNRS-Aix Marseille II, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France

Laboratoire de Génétique et Biophysique des Plantes (LGBP), Département d'Ecophysiologie Végétale et Microbiologie – UMR 163 CEA-CNRS Université de la Méditerranée Aix-Marseille II, 163 Avenue de Luminy, Marseille, France

Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique (IBPC), rue Pierre et Marie Curie 13, Paris, France

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BMC Plant Biology 2006, 6:32doi:10.1186/1471-2229-6-32

Published: 27 December 2006

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Additional file 1:

Pigment composition of leaf tissue from WT and mutant genotypes, both dark adapted, and after light stress (1200 μmol m-2 s-1, 20' at RT).

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Photosynthetic parameters Fo, Fm, Fv/Fm and T1/2 measured on WT and lut2.1 leaves.

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Kinetics of NPQ.

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Fitting of the Soret region of LHCII 1-T spectra from WT and lut2.1.

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Pigment composition and stability to heat denaturation of fractions obtained by preparative IEF of monomeric Lhcb isolated from WT and lut2.1.

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Thermal stability of Lhcb proteins isolated from WT and lut2.1 thylakoids.

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Flat bed isoelectric focusing fractionation.

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Leaf pigment composition of 3-weeks-old WT and lut2.1 plants grown for three additional weeks LL (120 μmol m-2 s-1) or HL (1400 μmol m-2 s-1) conditions.

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Measurements of Fv/Fm ratio and chlorophyll content of WT and mutant leaves during growth at low temperature and different light conditions.

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