Protein-pigments and the photosystem II reaction center: a glimpse into the history of research and reminiscences.

abstract：:Water vapor was added differentially to the gas streams entering the cells of three makes of differential infrared carbon dioxide analysers. Analyser deflections were compared with those expected from dilution of the carbon dioxide by the additional gas. Tests were made at 0, 365, and 730 cm(3) m(-3) concentrations of...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Bunce JA,Ward DA

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein was isolated from membranes of the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum. This protein was characterized by gel electrophoresis, gel filtration, analytical ultracentrifugation and amino acid sequencing. The molecular weight of the purified protein was shown to be 26 kDa by SDS-PAGE. HPLC gelfiltration, S...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Aivaliotis M,Neofotistou E,Rémigy HW,Tsimpinos G,Lustig A,Lottspeich F,Tsiotis G

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six chlorophyll-protein complexes are isolated from thylakoid membranes of Bryopsis corticulans by dodecyl-beta-D: -maltoside polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Unlike that of higher plants, the 77 K fluorescence emission spectrum of the CP1 band, the PSI core complexes of B. corticulans, presents two peaks, one at 6...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Chen G,Niu X,Chen X,Li L,Kuang T,Li S

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optically detected magnetic resonance of chlorosome-containing membranes from the green filamentous bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus has been performed both by fluorescence and absorption detection. Triplet states localized in the chlorosomes and in the B808-866 complex have been characterized. After chemical reduct...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Bordignon E,Scarzello M,Agostini G,Giacometti G,Vianelli A,Vannini C,Carbonera D

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hypothesis is proposed to explain the function of Cl(-) in activating the oxygenevolving complex (OEC) of photosystem II (PS II), based on the results of recent (35)Cl-NMR studies. The putative mechanism involves Cl(-) binding to two types of sites. An intrinsic site is suggested to be composed of three histidyl res...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Coleman WJ,Govindjee

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DCMU (3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea) at concentrations higher than 10 μM suppresses the second time range delayed fluorescence (DF) of pea chloroplasts, due to inhibition of the oxidizing side of photosystem II (PS II). The inhibition of the reducing side of PS II resulting in the suppression of millisecond ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Vasil'ev IR,Matorin DN,Lyadsky VV,Venediktov PS

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of desiccation and rehydration on the function of Photosystem II has been studied in the desiccation tolerant lichen Cladonia convoluta by thermoluminescence. We have shown that in functional fully hydrated thalli thermoluminescence signals can be observed from the recombination of the S2(3)QB (-) (B band),...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Sass L,Csintalan Z,Tuba Z,Vass I

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosystem II (PSII) catalyzes the oxidation of water to O2 at the manganese-containing, oxygen-evolving complex (OEC). Photoexcitation of PSII results in the oxidation of the OEC; four sequential oxidation reactions are required for the generation and release of molecular oxygen. Therefore, with flash illumination, ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Cooper IB,Barry BA

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonlinear optical responses of bacteriochlorophyll a (BChl a) were investigated by means of the three-pulse four-wave mixing (FWM) technique under the resonant excitation into the Q ( y ) band. The experimental results are explained by a theoretical model calculation including the Brownian oscillation mode of the solv...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Sugisaki M,Fujii R,Cogdell RJ,Hashimoto H

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Energy storage measurements by modulated photothermal radiometry (PTR) were carried out on intact leaves to assess the value of the PTR method for photosynthesis research. In particular, correlations to the redox state of P700 under various conditions were examined. PTR monitors modulated light conversion to heat by s...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Malkin S,Schreiber U,Jansen M,Canaani O,Shalgi E,Cahen D

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The light-harvesting complex (LHC) of higher plants isolated using Triton X-100 has been studied during its transformation into a monomeric form known as CPII. The change was accomplished by gradually increasing the concentration of the detergent, sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS). Changes in the red spectral region of the...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Gülen D,Knox R,Breton J

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computer model comprising light reactions in PS II and PS I, electron-proton transport reactions in mesophyll and bundle sheath chloroplasts, all enzymatic reactions and most of the known regulatory functions of NADP-ME type C(4) photosynthesis has been developed as a system of differential budget equations for inte...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Laisk A,Edwards GE

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For maximal rates of CO2 assimilation in isolated intact spinach chloroplasts the generation of the adequate NADPH/ATP ratio is achieved either by cyclic electron flow around photosystem I or by linear electron transport to oxaloacetate, nitrite or oxygen (Mehler-reaction). The interrelationships between these poising...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Backhausen JE,Kitzmann C,Scheibe R

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The LH2 antenna complexes of purple bacteria occur, depending on light conditions, in various different spectroscopic forms, with a similar structure but different absorption spectra. The differences are related to point changes in the primary amino acid sequence, but the molecular-level relationship between these cha...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Nottoli M,Jurinovich S,Cupellini L,Gardiner AT,Cogdell R,Mennucci B

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used antibodies generated against synthetic peptides to determine the topology of the 43 kD chlorophyll a binding protein (CP 43) of Photosystem II. Based on the pattern of proteolytic fragments detected (on western blots) by peptide specific antibodies, a six transmembrane span topological model, with the ami...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Sayre RT,Wrobel-Boerner EA

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article I review the history of research on the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) protein with emphasis on my contributions. The FMO protein, which transfers energy from the chlorosome to the reaction center in green sulfur bacteria, was discovered in 1962 and shown to contain bacteriochlorophyll a. From the absorpti...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Olson JM

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical plants are sensitive to chilling temperatures above zero but it is still unclear whether photosystem I (PSI) or photosystem II (PSII) of tropical plants is mainly affected by chilling temperatures. In this study, the effect of 4 degrees C associated with various light densities on PSII and PSI was studied in ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Huang W,Zhang SB,Cao KF

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review presents a summary of recent investigations examining the structure and function of the chlorophyll-proteins CPa-1 (CP47) and CPa-2 (CP43). Comparisons of the derived amino acid sequences of these proteins suggest sites for chlorophyll binding and for interactions between these chlorophyll-proteins and oth...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Bricker TM

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate genotypic variation, we measured leaf photosynthetic rate (Pn) and its associated factors for the rice diversity research set of germplasm (RDRS) selected from the Genebank in National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS). Pn showed large genotypic variation from 11.9 to 32.1 micromol m(-2 ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Kanemura T,Homma K,Ohsumi A,Shiraiwa T,Horie T

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosynthesis was well-established on the earth at least 3.5 thousand million years ago, and it is widely believed that these ancient organisms had similar metabolic capabilities to modern cyanobacteria. This requires that development of two photosystems and the oxygen evolution capability occurred very early in the...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Blankenship RE

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of Fe resupply to Fe-deficient plants have been investigated in hydroponically-grown sugar beet. In the short-term (24 h) after Fe resupply, major changes were observed, although de novo chlorophyll (Chl) synthesis had not begun yet. Approximately 50% of the zeaxanthin was converted into violaxanthin, wher...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Larbi A,Abadía A,Morales F,Abadía J

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problem of predicting the kinetics of proton efflux and the decay of the internal proton concentration for vesicles containing one or more buffers for which the internal proton concentration is initially higher than that of the surrounding medium is examined. An analytical solution is derived that describes the ti...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Whitmarsh J

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using 77 K chlorophyll a (Chl a) fluorescence spectra in vivo, the development was studied of Photosystems II (PS II) and I (PS I) during greening of barley under intermittent light followed by continuous light at low (LI, 50 mumol m(-2) s(-1)) and high (HI, 1000 mumol m(-2) s(-1)) irradiances. The greening at HI inte...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Cajánek M,Navrátil M,Kurasová I,Kalina J,Spunda V

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minimal photosynthetic catalytic F1(αβ) core complexes, containing equimolar ratios of the α and β subunits, were isolated from membrane-bound spinach chloroplast CF1 and Rhodospirillum rubrum chromatophore RrF1. A CF1-α3β3 hexamer and RrF1-α1β1 dimer, which were purified from the respective F1(αβ) complexes, exhibit ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Gromet-Elhanan Z,Sokolov M

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fluorescence video imaging system utilizing relatively inexpensive commercial components is described. The instrument utilizes a black and white CCD video camera detector, a commercial video imaging board and a IBM-AT compatible computer. The color output of the imaging board greatly aids in the users ability to vis...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Fenton JM,Crofts AR

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A spontaneous mutant (R/89) of photosynthetic purple bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26 was selected for resistance to 200 μM atrazin. It showed increased resistance to interquinone electron transfer inhibitors of o-phenanthroline (resistance factor, RF=20) in UQo reconstituted isolated reaction centers and terbut...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Tandori J,Nagy L,Puskás A,Droppa M,Horváth G,Maróti P

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro studies of the carotenoid peridinin, which is the primary pigment from the peridinin chlorophyll-a protein (PCP) light harvesting complex, showed a strong dependence on the lifetime of the peridinin lowest singlet excited state on solvent polarity. This dependence was attributed to the presence of an intramol...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Polívka T,Pascher T,Sundström V,Hiller RG

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioenergetic properties of thylakoids from plants submitted to a water stress stress (watering stopped for 6-15 days) have been measured in two lupin genotypes characterized as resistant or susceptible to drought. This energy coupling was assessed by flow-force relationships relating the phosphorylation rate to the ma...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Meyer S,Phung Nhu Hung S,Trémolières A,de Kouchkovsky Y

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of leaf water potential (Ψ) on net CO2 assimilation rate (A), stomatal conductance (g), transpiration (E) and water-use efficiency (WUE) was measured for three cultivars of cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) seedlings during three recurrent drought cycles. Net assimilation varied greatly at high water potentials, b...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Joly RJ,Hahn DT

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome of the purple non-sulphur photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas acidophila has been found to contain multiple copies of puc light-harvesting (LH2) peripheral antenna complex genes. Three wild-type isolates each exhibiting dissimilar peripheral antenna complex phenotypes in response to growth at reduced ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Gardiner AT,Mackenzie RC,Barrett SJ,Kaiser K,Cogdell RJ

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00