Mingzhu Ma
Yifei Liu
Chunming Bai2,5
Jean Wan Hong Yong- 1College of Land and Environment, National Key Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Soil and Fertilizer Resources, Northeast China Plant Nutrition and Fertilization Scientific Observation and Research Center for Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Key Laboratory of Protected Horticulture of Education Ministry and Liaoning Province, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China
- 2The UWA Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
- 3School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
- 4School of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
- 5Liaoning Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenyang, China
- 6Department of Biosystems and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
Chloroplast NAD(P)H dehydrogenase (NDH) complex, a multiple-subunit complex in the thylakoid membranes mediating cyclic electron transport, is one of the most important alternative electron transport pathways. It was identified to be essential for plant growth and development during stress periods in recent years. The NDH-mediated cyclic electron transport can restore the over-reduction in stroma, maintaining the balance of the redox system in the electron transfer chain and providing the extra ATP needed for the other biochemical reactions. In this review, we discuss the research history and the subunit composition of NDH. Specifically, the formation and significance of NDH-mediated cyclic electron transport are discussed from the perspective of plant evolution and physiological functionality of NDH facilitating plants’ adaptation to environmental stress. A better understanding of the NDH-mediated cyclic electron transport during photosynthesis may offer new approaches to improving crop yield.
Introduction
Regulation of photosynthetic electron transport in the thylakoid membrane of chloroplasts is fundamental for the maximum photosynthetic yield and plant growth. The light reactions in photosynthesis convert light energy into chemical energy in the forms of ATP and NADPH. The reactions involve two types of electron transport in the thylakoid membrane. While linear electron transport generates both ATP and NADPH, cyclic electron transport around photosystem I (PSI) is exclusively involved in ATP synthesis without the accumulation of NADPH (Johnson, 2011; Yamori et al., 2015). The cyclic electron transport (CET) around PSI includes two distinct and partially redundant pathways in plant chloroplasts. One, i.e., antimycin A-insensitive pathway, is mediated by chloroplast NADH dehydrogenase (NDH) complex (Peltier et al., 2016; Shikanai and Yamamoto, 2017). The other is mediated by PROTON GRADIENT REGULATION5 (PGR5) and PGR5-like Photosynthetic Phenotype1 (PGRL1) protein complex which is sensitive to antimycin A (Munekage et al., 2002, 2004; Dalcorso et al., 2008). Some results have shown that NDH-dependent CET is also involved in plant response to various environmental stresses, such as drought (Munné-Bosch et al., 2005), high temperature (Wang et al., 2006), low temperature (Li et al., 2004; Leonid et al., 2011; Yamori et al., 2011; Wang et al., 2020), low light (Ishikawa et al., 2016a), and phosphorus deficiency (Carstensen et al., 2018; Shi et al., 2019). This review examines the background underlying the research of NDH. The significance of the NDH-mediated cyclic electron transport is discussed from the perspective of plant evolution and physiological functionality of NDH to understand how plants adapt to environmental stress by fine tuning their NDH-mediated cyclic electron transport.
Discovery of the NDH Complex
Arnon et al. (1954) discovered CET in spinach chloroplasts in vitro, but this did not accelerate the understanding of the NDH complex. It was not until 1986 that scientists discovered the NDH complex in the chloroplast genome sequencing of tobacco and liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha) (Ohyama et al., 1986; Shinozaki et al., 1986). There were 11 genes (NdhA∼NdhK) in their chloroplast genome that were highly homologous to the genes encoding the human mitochondrial respiratory chain NADH dehydrogenase complex (Matsubayashi et al., 1987). With these genomic similarities, the NADH dehydrogenase complex in chloroplasts was aptly named as the NAD(P)H dehydrogenase-like complex or commonly referred to as the NDH complex (Yamamoto et al., 2011).
Structure of the NDH-1 Complex in Cyanobacteria
The type I NADH dehydrogenase (NDH-1) is a multisubunit complex located in the thylakoid membrane (Ohkawa et al., 2000), which is widely found in bacteria, cyanobacteria, higher plants, and animals (Friedrich et al., 1995; Yagi et al., 1998; Friedrich and Scheide, 2000; Brandt et al., 2003; Miller et al., 2021). Previous studies have reported that NDH-2 exists widely in bacteria, some in fungi, plants, and protozoa (protist), but it is not involved in respiration and photosynthetic electron transport (Howitt et al., 1999). There are about 26 NDH subunits in cyanobacteria (Laughlin et al., 2020). Proteomic methods and cryoelectron microscopic (cryo-EM) have been used to study the different types of NDH-1 complexes in cyanobacteria, including NDH-1L, NDH1L’, NDH-1MS, and NDH-1MS’ (Figure 1; Peltier et al., 2016; Zhang et al., 2020). The NDH-1L and NDH-1L’ are involved in respiration and the cyclic electron transfer around PSI. In addition, the NDH-1MS and NDH-1MS’ are involved in the absorption of CO2 and the cyclic electron transfer around PSI (Ogawa, 1991; Ohkawa et al., 2000). In addition to the NDH-1M component, NDH-1L has two specific subunits NdhD1 and NdhF1. Nowaczyk et al. (2011) found two new subunits: NdhP and NdhQ of NDH-1L in thermophilic cyanobacteria by mass spectrometry, which are located on the membrane arm and play a major role in the stability of NDH-1L (Wulfhorst et al., 2014; Zhao et al., 2015), in which NdhP subunits are unique to NDH-1L (Wulfhorst et al., 2014). The small molecular hydrophilic subunit NdhS and NdhV subunit which can stabilize the binding of NdhS to ferredoxin (Fd) were found in Synechocystis sp. (Yamamoto et al., 2011; Zhao et al., 2014). Recently, some researchers reported the cryo-EM structure of the entire NDH-1L complex with all 19 subunits (including NdhV, a transiently associated subunit of NDH-1) and revealed the structure and arrangement of the principal oxygenic photosynthesis-specific (OPS) subunits in the NDH complex (Laughlin et al., 2019; Zhang et al., 2020). The NDH-1L’ complex contains NdhD2 subunit but not NdhD1. The expression level of the complex generally increases under the condition of carbon deficiency (Wang et al., 2004). The subunits of NDH-1MS are CupA, CupS, NdhF3, and NdhD3 (Ohkawa et al., 1998), and the complex has a high affinity for CO2, while the specific subunits of NDH-1MS’ are NdhF4, NdhD4, and CupB (Wulfhorst et al., 2014).
Figure 1. The functional and structural multiplicity of the Cyanobacteria NDH-1 complexes. NDH-1L and NDH-1L′ are involved in respiration and cyclic electron transport around PSI, while NDH-1MS and NDH-1MS′ are involved in the absorption of CO2 and cyclic electron transport around PSI, in which NDH-1MS is a low CO2-induced CO2 absorption complex and NDH-1MS’ is a constitutive CO2 absorption complex (adapted from Battchikova et al., 2011; Laughlin et al., 2020; Zhang et al., 2020).
Structure of the Chloroplast NDH Complex
The chloroplast NDH complex, located in the thylakoid membrane, mediates CET and chloroplastic respiration (Laughlin et al., 2020). A recent work lists 35 subunits as the presently identified NDH subunits in chloroplasts, of which many have an unknown function. The chloroplast NDH complex is a large thylakoid protein complex composed of 11 chloroplast-encoded subunits (Ndh A∼K) and another 24 nuclear-encoded subunits (Laughlin et al., 2020). These subunits are distributed in different subcomplexes (Sirpio et al., 2009). Previous studies have shown that the NDH complex consists of subcomplex A (SubA), subcomplex B (SubB), lumen subcomplex (SubL), membrane subcomplex (SubM), and electron donor-binding subcomplex (SubE) (Figure 2; Shikanai, 2016). The formation of this supercomplex helps to maintain the stability of the NDH complex under strong light conditions (Peng and Shikanai, 2011). Three subunits of NdhS, NdhT, and NdhU in SubE have been identified through proteomic analysis of NDH-PSI supercomplex (Yamamoto et al., 2011). Fan et al. (2015) identified NdhV as a new subunit of SubE, which is a thylakoid membrane peripheral protein located on the side of the stroma. SubE binds to SubA to form a ferredoxin-binding site; the key function is to bind ferredoxin and facilitating catalysis (Yamamoto et al., 2011).
Figure 2. The structure of the chloroplast NDH complex. SubA, subcomplex A; SubB, subcomplex B; SubM, membrane subcomplex; SubL, lumen subcomplex; SubE, electron donor-binding subcomplex; Stroma, thylakoid matrix; Lumen, thylakoid cavity; Lhca5/6, light harvesting pigment protein (adapted from Ifuku et al., 2011; Shikanai, 2016).
NDH-CET in Plant Evolution
Phycophyta
While examining the NDH-CET from the perspective of plant evolution, we uncovered some salient observations in some phylogenetically primitive organisms. Mi et al. (1992) found inactivated NDH in which the electron transport chain (ETC) from the reduction product produced by the respiratory stroma and the reduction side of PSI to P700+ were completely lost in the cyanobacteria mutants. Conversely, in cyanobacterial mutants with partial inactivation of NDH, this ETC was partially inhibited. The CET in cyanobacteria (and not PGR5-CET) occurs mainly via the NDH-1 complex (Mi et al., 1995; Yeremenko et al., 2005). Meanwhile, it was found that plant PGR5 suffices to reestablish cyanobacterial cyclic electron transport, albeit less efficiently than the cyanobacterial PGR5 or the plant PGR5 and PGRL1 proteins together (Dann and Leister, 2019; Margulis et al., 2020). Despite the lack of ndhA∼K gene (encoded by chloroplasts) in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, it still has the ability for CET (Martin et al., 2004). It is plausible that there might be another CET pathways operating in these primitive protists. However, recent data suggest that Chlamydomonas reinhardtii performs CET also through the PGR5-PGL1 pathway (Jokel et al., 2018; Yadav et al., 2020). It was proposed that in the process of CET transmission within Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, the reduction of plastoquinone (PQ) was facilitated by the NADH: PQ oxidoreductase (a type II NADH: PQ oxidoreductase, Nda2) (Desplats et al., 2009). The structure of Nda2 was considered to be simple, and the catalytic reaction was faster than that of NDH-CET (Kramer and Evans, 2011).
Plants With C3 Mode of Photosynthesis
In Arabidopsis, NDH-1 forms a supercomplex with photosystem I and light-harvesting complex I proteins Lhca5 and Lhca6 (Peng et al., 2009; Yadav et al., 2017). Furthermore, the NDH-1-PSI supercomplex has also been identified in barley (Kouřil et al., 2014). Under normal growth conditions, the content of NDH complex in C3 plants was lower than that of the thylakoid membrane protein complexes such as PSI, PSII, cytochrome b6f (Cytb6f), and ATP synthase (Pribil et al., 2014), accounting for only 1.5% of the PSII content (Burrows et al., 1998). The involvement of NDH complex in the CET process was demonstrated using chlorophyll fluorescence parameter kinetics and inhibitor blocking analysis in tobacco ndh mutants (Joët et al., 2001). Interestingly, it has been shown that damage of NDH-CET in rice causes a reduction in the electron transport rate through PSI at the low light intensity with a concomitant reduction in CO2 assimilation rate (Yamori et al., 2015). Therefore, NDH-CET plays an essential role in normal growth and yield under low light (Rantala et al., 2020).
Plants With C4 Mode of Photosynthesis
During the evolution of plants from C3 to C4, the expression of NDH increased significantly (Nakamura et al., 2013). The content of NDH in C4 plants was higher than that in C3 plants, indicating that NDH-CET have a vital role in C4 plants (Berger et al., 1993; Ishikawa et al., 2016b). Takabayashi et al. (2005) found that the content of NDH in vascular bundle sheath is 1.6 times higher than that in mesophyll cells of Scutellaria barbata. In Flaveria bidentis, the content of NDH protein in vascular bundle sheath was three times higher than that in mesophyll cells (Nakamura et al., 2013). In the NADP-ME-type of C4 plants, their vascular bundle sheath cells contained more NDH indicating a requirement for more ATP (Friso et al., 2010; Ishikawa et al., 2016b). Darie et al. (2010) not only detected the expression of a new gene (ndhE) in maize mesophyll (MS), bundle sheath (BS), and ethioplast (ET) plastids but also found that the NDH complex was divided into 300 kDa subcomplex (corresponding to membrane subcomplex, detected by the NDHE antibody) and 250 kDa subcomplex (detected by the NDHH, -J, and -K antibodies) (Darie et al., 2010). Interestingly, in NAD-ME-type C4 plants, the mesophyll cells contained an abundance of NDH protein (Kanai and Edwards, 1999). Besides, chloroplast NDH-1 contains at least 13 additional OPS subunits compared with cyanobacteria, although the current structure of the NDH-1 complex reveals the role of conserved OPS subunits (Laughlin et al., 2019, 2020; Zhang et al., 2020).
The Physiological Functionality of the NDH Complex
Providing ATP for Efficient Carbon Assimilation
Theoretically, the NADPH/ATP produced by the linear electron transport is deficient for the assimilation of CO2 at different growth stages; the CET pathway, which only produces ATP, but not NADPH, can effectively compensate for this deficiency (Shikanai, 2007; Walker et al., 2016; Nakano et al., 2019). With no NDH activity, the cyanobacteria mutants of ndhB (Ogawa, 1990), ndhH, ndhJ, ndhN, and ndhM (He et al., 2015), could not survive in normal air CO2 concentration; other mutants with partial NDH activity grew slowly in normal air CO2 concentration (He and Mi, 2016). The non-functional NDH-CET pathway was attributed to the loss of ndhB in plants (Mi et al., 1995). Ogawa (1992) proposed that the NDH-CET pathway provided energy for CO2 assimilation and inorganic carbon transport in cyanobacteria. Similarly, the NDH-CET pathway is likely to contribute to the proton motive force (pmf) and ATP in chloroplasts of higher plants (Strand et al., 2017). In Arabidopsis NDH complex defective mutants, the reduction of pmf across the thylakoid membrane led to low availability of ATP. Moreover, the pmf produced by NDH-CET was higher than that produced by PGR5/PGRL1-CET (Wang et al., 2015). It was observed that the ATP produced by NDH-CET could effectively compensate for CO2 assimilation in a changing environment (Xu et al., 2014; Pan et al., 2020). It was found that the carbon assimilation efficiency of rice mutants (with no NDH activity caused by the lack of CRR6 assembly factor of subcomplex A) is lower than normal rice plants when grown under low light, resulting in a significant decrease in biomass (Yamori et al., 2015). Meanwhile, NDH-CET is also promoted under corresponding stress conditions to adapt to the needs of ATP and ΔpH during changing environment to ensure an effective photosynthetic carbon fixation process (Quiles, 2006).
Mitigating Oxidative Stress and Stroma Overreduction
It was found that the concentration of NADPH was higher, and more H2O2 was produced on the acceptor side of PSI, when measuring the NADPH fluorescence kinetics of cyanobacteria NDH mutant (Mi et al., 2000). These observations indicated that NDH-CET plays a key role in the process of antioxidation. Specifically, the NDH-CET initiates photoprotection via downregulating electron transport in the Cytb6f complex to acidify the thylakoid lumen (Munekage et al., 2004) and induces energy-dependent quenching (qE) component of non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) in PSII to dissipate the absorbed excess light energy. Thus, the oxidative stress of chloroplast can be alleviated and the overreduction of stroma can be prevented (Li et al., 2002). The role of NDH-CET in the process of antioxidation in higher plants principally stems from the study of ndh gene knockout in tobacco plastids. Endo et al. (1999) repeatedly irradiated tobacco ndhB mutant leaves with strong light and found that the PSII in mutants produced serious photoinhibition. When tobacco leaves were subjected to anaerobic condition, the activity of NDH-CET increased significantly, indicating that it was regulated by the redox state of intersystem electron transporters (Joët et al., 2002). Wang et al. (2006) found that tobacco ndhC-J-K mutants accumulated reactive oxygen species more easily than wild types when growing under low- (4°C) or high-temperature (42°C) stress. Chloroplast NDH was able to alleviate oxidative stress in rice under fluctuating light conditions (Yamori et al., 2016), and hydrogen peroxide could be used as a signaling compound to activate NDH-CET (Strand et al., 2015). Moreover, it was shown that the NDH-1-PSI supercomplex consumed electrons for CET as quickly as possible, limiting the space required by Fdred diffusion and stabilizing PSI (Gao et al., 2016; Zhao et al., 2018). This accelerated electron consumption is thought to be an antioxidant mechanism, especially when stresses such as high light leads to increased Fd reduction (Miller et al., 2021). These studies suggested that the NDH complex get involved in alleviating the effects of photooxidative stress. Wu et al. (2011) found that a low concentration of NaHSO3 promoted NDH-CET in tobacco under a dark-light transition episode, which slowed down the damage of photooxidation while improving plant photosynthesis. These findings revealed that the NDH complex is involved in alleviating the effects of photooxidative stress.
Regulating the Photosynthetic Apparatus
Generally, PSI is more stable than PSII and less vulnerable to light damage (Sonoike, 2011). Arabidopsis (Kono and Terashima, 2016) and rice (Yamori et al., 2016) cannot grow well under fluctuating light due to photoinhibition (Kono et al., 2014); the pgr5 mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana die at the seedling stage under fluctuating light, indicating that the CET pathway has a protective effect on PSI (Suorsa et al., 2016). The relative electron transport rate (ETR) and CO2 assimilation rate of rice NDH complex-deleted mutant decreased under long-term low-light and low-temperature conditions (Peng et al., 2009; Peng and Shikanai, 2011; Kono and Terashima, 2016). Conversely, the CET had little regulation on the ratio of ATP/NADPH under high light (Yamori et al., 2015). However, Walker et al. (2014) held an opposite view that CET plays a major role during high light, such as increasing the ATP requirements. In this regard, Huang et al. (2015) deemed that the effect of CET alters in tandem and coinciding with any changes in light intensity. When subjected to subsaturated light intensity, CET is conducive for the formation of proton dynamic potential across the thylakoid membrane, activating ATP synthase to synthesize ATP, while maintaining an optimal ATP/NADPH. Under saturated light, CET provides an important photoprotective role for the activity of oxygen evolution complex (OEC) by forming the proton gradient across the thylakoid membrane (?pH) (Huang et al., 2016b), and pmf to protect PSI and PSII via the acidification of thylakoid lumen (Golding et al., 2004; Basso et al., 2020). Chilling leads to photoinhibition in cold-sensitive plants like tobacco, peanut, and cucumber which is mainly related to CET activity (Huang et al., 2016a; Liu, 2020; Song et al., 2020; Wu et al., 2020). At 4°C, CET plays a photoprotective role in PSI primarily through the acidification of thylakoid lumen (Huang et al., 2017b). The protective mechanism of CET would alter in accordance with the different growth status of the heliophyte leaves. Under strong light, immature leaves protect the photosystems mainly through the acidification of thylakoid lumen. For the mature leaves, they achieve high light protection through the formation of cross-thylakoid membrane proton gradient, activation of ATP enzyme, and lumen acidification (Huang et al., 2017a). However, Rantala et al. (2020) indicated that PGR5 and NDH-1 systems do not function as protective electron acceptors but mitigate the consequences of PSI inhibition. There is no consensus that the PGR5/PGRL1 compose a true cyclic electron pathway (i.e., acting as electron transporters) mainly due to the lack of solid molecular evidence, although PGR5/PGRL1 seems to be involved in CET at least indirectly (Nawrocki et al., 2019; Rantala et al., 2020).
Future Outlook
Although the energy provided by NDH-CET is lower than that of LET, it still plays a principal role in fine-tuning energy availability in plants. Besides, it plays a significant role in maintaining photosynthetic carbon fixation of algae and higher plants when encountering abiotic stress events. At present, there are several unanswered questions about NDH-CET: namely, the regulation of NDH pathway which affects the efficient operation of photosynthetic apparatus; the activation of its regulatory mechanism under abiotic stress; the electron transfer processes of NDH; and how they might influence the CO2 concentrating mechanism in algae and higher plants. Moving forward, in-depth studies about the NDH-CET pathway are required to improve the light energy utilization efficiency of plants and to further elucidate the mechanism associated with photoprotection. With the availability of newer technology, harnessing these novel and sensitive tools would improve our understanding of the NDH-CET pathway and ultimately help us to improve crop yield and quality.
Author Contributions
YL, MM, and JY are responsible for the general overview of the opinions stated in the manuscript. YL, CB, and JY wrote and modified the manuscript. All authors reviewed and approved the final version of the submitted manuscript.
Funding
This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project Nos. 31772391 and 31301842), National Peanut Research System (Project No. CARS-13-Nutrient Management), National Key Research and Development Plan (Project No. 2018YFD0201206), Sheng Jing Talents Project (Project No. RC170338), and China Scholarship Council Project.
Conflict of Interest
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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Keywords: chloroplast, NAD(P)H, dehydrogenase complex, photosynthesis, cyclic electron transport
Citation: Ma M, Liu Y, Bai C and Yong JWH (2021) The Significance of Chloroplast NAD(P)H Dehydrogenase Complex and Its Dependent Cyclic Electron Transport in Photosynthesis. Front. Plant Sci. 12:661863. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.661863
Received: 31 January 2021; Accepted: 22 March 2021;
Published: 23 April 2021.
Edited by:
Fabricio Eulalio Leite Carvalho, Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA) – CI La Suiza, ColombiaReviewed by:
Alexander G. Ivanov, Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, BulgariaYugo Lima-Melo, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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