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P-22<br />
Expression of early light-inducible proteins (ELIPs) during the transition to autotrophy of<br />
Vitis vinifera L. leaves<br />
D.E. Olivares* 1,2 , E. Sánchez 1 , R. Pulgar 2 , W. Sierralta 3 , P. Hinrichsen 1 , M. Pinto 1,2<br />
1 Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Santiago, Chile; 2 Facultad de Ciencias<br />
Agronómicas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile; 3 Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de los<br />
Alimentos, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile<br />
*Corresponding author: olivaresdaniela@gmail.com<br />
ELIPs are thylakoid membrane proteins transiently induced by light <strong>and</strong> particularly expressed<br />
following photoinhibition. They belong to the chlorophyll a/b binding protein family <strong>and</strong> are<br />
structurally related to the light harvesting complex of photosystem II. Their function is not<br />
totally understood - some authors associate ELIPs to energy dissipation processes but others<br />
gives them a role on the protection of chlorophyll again degradation. ELIPs would bind the<br />
molecules of free chlorophyll acting as pigment carriers during plastid development. Since<br />
accumulation of chlorophyll is normally occurring in developing leaves <strong>and</strong> in grapevine young<br />
leaves normally develop under photoinhibitory conditions, in this work we analyzed the<br />
expression of ELIPs in grapevine leaves <strong>and</strong> its relationship <strong>with</strong> the rate of chlorophyll<br />
accumulation occurring during leaf transition to the autotrophy. Our results revealed that in<br />
grapevine leaves only one ELIP (VvELIP) was expressed, which would be encoded by a singlecopy<br />
gene that maps to Vitis vinifera chromosome 5. It was also determined that the promoter of<br />
this gene presents a structure <strong>with</strong> cis-acting regulatory sequences induced by light <strong>and</strong> express<br />
following a circadian rhythm. This was corroborated by the oscillatory expression of the elip<br />
transcript in leaves kept under continuous illumination but previously acclimated to a 12 h<br />
photoperiod. VvELIP corresponds to a typical early light inducible protein <strong>with</strong> 199 amino acid,<br />
a 44 amino acid long chloroplast transit peptide, three transmembrane helices <strong>and</strong> a chlorophyll<br />
a/b-binding domain. After high light induction, VvELIP was highly expressed in heterotrophic<br />
leaves but very little in adult autotrophic leaves. A positive correlation was found between the<br />
level of VvELIP expression <strong>and</strong> the rate of chlorophyll accumulation. These results are in<br />
agreement <strong>with</strong> the chlorophyll protection role assigned to ELIPs which can be of importance<br />
during transition of leaves to autotrophy.<br />
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