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ArticlePlant physiology2026

CP26 is not involved in qE- or qZ-type non-photochemical quenching in Arabidopsis.

Julia Walter, Dhruv Patel-Tupper, Lam Lam, Alexa Ma, Georgia Taylor, Alistair Leverett, Graham R Fleming, Krishna K Niyogi, Johannes Kromdijk

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Julia WalterDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, CB2 3EA Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-6230-9626
Dhruv Patel-TupperDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-0642-1485
Lam LamGraduate Group in Biophysics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7292-9463
Alexa MaDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States.ORCID 0009-0002-7921-6535
Georgia TaylorDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, CB2 3EA Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID 0009-0009-2204-6927
Alistair LeverettDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, CB2 3EA Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-7064-1917
Graham R FlemingGraduate Group in Biophysics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0847-1838
Krishna K NiyogiDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7229-2071
Johannes KromdijkDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, CB2 3EA Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-4423-4100

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Gates Foundation, Foundation for Food and Agriculture ResearchHoward Hughes Medical InstituteRealizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) OPP1172157U.K. Government's Department for International DevelopmentUniversity of IllinoisU.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division 449B
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Abstract

CP26 is a monomeric minor light-harvesting complex of Photosystem II (LHCII) protein located at the interface between LHCII trimers and the PSII core in thylakoid membranes. Previous studies have proposed that CP26 plays a role in non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) in addition to light harvesting. Here, we utilized biophysical and pharmacological approaches to investigate this role using single- and higher-order Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) cp26 mutants, examining its relationship to known NPQ regulators (Photosystem II subunit S, PsbS, violaxanthin de-epoxidase, and the pH gradient across the thylakoid membrane). cp26 mutants showed significantly reduced maximum PSII quantum efficiencies (Fv/Fm) in darkness, indicating a constitutively quenched state, further confirmed by fluorescence lifetime measurements. Destabilized PSII-LHCII supercomplexes observed in native gel electrophoresis and tighter PSII supercomplex packing were potential causes, with no other antenna proteins capable of rescuing this phenotype. In addition, the cp26 mutants exhibited altered NPQ capacity-modest in single mutants but substantial in double mutants-independent of PsbS and violaxanthin de-epoxidase. Together, these results show that CP26 is not involved in qE or qZ but may primarily play an indirect role in apparent NPQ responses via PSII-LHCII supercomplex organization.

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ArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsLight-Harvesting Protein ComplexesPhotosystem II Protein ComplexChlorophyllFluorescenceHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationLightMutationThylakoidsXanthophyllsArabidopsis ProteinsChlorophyllLight-Harvesting Protein ComplexesPhotosystem II Protein ComplexXanthophylls

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