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Blue light induces sporulation of Physarum polycephalum macroplasmodia and reversibly inhibits spherulation (sclerotization) of microplasmodia. Illuminated microplasmodia have an abnormal appearance. The photobiological responses of the plasmodia appear to be unaffected by the absence of yellow pigment in the white mutant strain used. Illumination of microplasmodial suspensions with blue light (lambda max approximately 465 nm) results also in an early effect on glucose metabolism: glucose consumption is reversibly inhibited. By using radioactive glucose it was shown that the main products formed are a water-insoluble glucan and the disaccharide trehalose. Inhibition of glucose consumption in the light results in decreased production of these two compounds. Illumination of microplasmodial suspensions also causes a reversible effect on the pH of the medium which is interpreted as a decreased production of a yet unidentified acid from glucose. The action spectrum of the light-induced pH response shows maxima near 390, 465, and 485 nm. It resembles the absorption spectrum of a flavoprotein and confirms the existence of a blue-light receptor in P. polycephalum microplasmodia.

Blue-light receptor in a white mutant of Physarum polycephalum mediates inhibition of spherulation and regulation of glucose metabolism.