Making proteins green; biosynthesis of chlorophyll-binding proteins in cyanobacteria.

abstract：:A rapid procedure has been developed for the isolation of the photosystem two reaction centre complex (PS II RC) from a double mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, F54-14, which lacks the Photosystem one complex and the chloroplast ATPase. Thylakoid membranes are solubilised with 1.5% (w/v) Triton X-100 and the PS II ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Alizadeh S,Nixon PJ,Telfer A,Barber J

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peridinin-chlorophyll-protein (PCP), containing differently absorbing chlorophyll derivatives, are good models with which to study energy transfer among monomeric chlorophylls (Chls) by both bulk and single-molecule spectroscopy. They can be obtained by reconstituting the N-terminal domain of the protein (N-PCP) with ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Brotosudarmo TH,Mackowski S,Hofmann E,Hiller RG,Bräuchle C,Scheer H

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two species-invariant tryptophan residues at positions 109 and 250 of tobacco Rubisco activase were identified by site-directed mutagenesis as being responsible for the increase in intrinsic fluorescence upon addition of ATP, which has been previously attributed to increased self-association. Substitution of W109, whi...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Wang D,Portis AR Jr

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescence kinetics of both intact needles and isolated chloroplasts of summer active and winter stressed Pinus sylvestris were measured at both room temperature and 77 K. It was confirmed that winter stress inhibited the photochemical capacity of photosystem II but also that winter stress caused the strongest i...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Oquist G,Ogren E

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacteria exhibit a novel form of non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) at the level of the phycobilisome. NPQ is a process that protects photosystem II (PSII) from possible highlight-induced photo-damage. Although significant advancement has been made in understanding the NPQ, there are still some missing details. Th...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Sonani RR,Gardiner A,Rastogi RP,Cogdell R,Robert B,Madamwar D

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential role of foliar carbon export features in the acclimation of photosynthetic capacity to differences and changes in light environment was evaluated. These features included apoplastic vs. symplastic phloem loading, density of loading veins, plasmodesmatal frequency in intermediary cells, and the ratio of l...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Adams WW 3rd,Watson AM,Mueh KE,Amiard V,Turgeon R,Ebbert V,Logan BA,Combs AF,Demmig-Adams B

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetic and spectroscopic properties of the secondary electron acceptor A1 were determined by flash absorption spectroscopy at room and cryogenic temperatures in a Photosystem I (PS I) core devoid of the iron-sulfur clusters FX, FB and FA. It was shown earlier (Warren, P.V., Golbeck, J.H. and Warden, J.T. (1993) B...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Brettel K,Golbeck JH

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequences of the genes coding for the subunits of the Photosystem I (PS I) core, PsaA and PsaB were determined for the marine prokaryotic oxyphototrophs Prochlorococcus sp. MED4 (CCMP1378), P. marinus SS120 (CCMP1375) and Synechococcus sp. WH7803. Divergence of these sequences from those of both freshwa...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： van der Staay GW,Moon-van der Staay SY,Garczarek L,Partensky F

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P700 enriched fractions were isolated from two brown algae and one diatom using sucrose density centrifugation after digitinin solubilization. They had a Chl a/P700 ratio of about 250 to 375 according to the species, they were enriched in long-wavelength absorbing Chl a and exhibited a fluorescence emission maximum at...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Berkaloff C,Caron L,Rousseau B

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two portable instruments, designed to evaluate epidermal UV screening in leaves, were compared: the Dualex and the UV-A-PAM fluorimeter. Both instruments excite chlorophyll fluorescence at the same UV wavelengths but reference excitation is in the red and the blue spectral range in the former and the latter fluorimete...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Pfündel EE,Ben Ghozlen N,Meyer S,Cerovic ZG

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phycobilisomes (PBS) are antenna complexes that harvest light for photosystem (PS) I and PS II in cyanobacteria and some algae. A process known as far-red light photoacclimation (FaRLiP) occurs when some cyanobacteria are grown in far-red light (FRL). They synthesize chlorophylls d and f and remodel PS I, PS II, and P...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Ho MY,Gan F,Shen G,Bryant DA

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many ways, the 1963 conference at Airlie House was an unusual event. The meeting convincingly demonstrated that photosynthetic research, previously reported mostly at conferences of botany and/or plant physiology, had become an independent and important field of biological research. New techniques had been develope...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Rurainski HJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) hybrid methods are currently the most powerful computational tools for studies of structure/function relations and structural refinement of macrobiomolecules (e.g., proteins and nucleic acids). These methods are highly efficient, since they implement quantum chemistry tech...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Sproviero EM,Newcomer MB,Gascón JA,Batista ER,Brudvig GW,Batista VS

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When CO(2) supply is limited, aquatic photosynthetic organisms induce a CO(2)-concentrating mechanism (CCM) and acclimate to the CO(2)-limiting environment. Although the CCM is well studied in unicellular green algae such as Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, physiological aspects of the CCM and its associated genes in multic...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Yamano T,Fujita A,Fukuzawa H

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：: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：:Light energy harvested by the pigments in Photosystem I (PSI) is used for charge separation in the reaction center (RC), after which the positive charge resides on a special chlorophyll dimer called P700. In studies on the PSI trapping kinetics, P700(+) is usually chemically reduced to re-open the RCs. So far, the inf...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Wientjes E,Croce R

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase fromEuglena gracilis decays steadily when exposed to agents that induce oxidative modification of cysteine residues (Cu(2+), benzofuroxan, disulfides, arsenite, oxidized ascorbate). Inactivation takes place with a concomitant loss of cysteine sulfhydryl g...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： García-Ferris C,Moreno J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major light-harvesting system in cyanobacteria, the phycobilisome, is an essential component of the photosynthetic apparatus that regulates the utilization of the natural light source-the Sun. Earlier works revealed that the thylakoid membrane composition and its physical properties might have an important role in...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Vajravel S,Laczkó-Dobos H,Petrova N,Herman É,Kovács T,Zakar T,Todinova S,Taneva S,Kovács L,Gombos Z,Tóth T,Krumova S

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, relatively few proteomics studies of chloroplast have been published, but the field has just started emerging and is likely to develop more rapidly in the future. While the complex membrane structure of the chloroplast makes it difficult to study its entire proteome by global approaches, proteomics has cons...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Schröder WP,Kieselbach T

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this communication, we report our progress on the development of low-frequency Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopic techniques to study metal-substrate and metal-ligand vibrational modes in the Photosystem II/oxygen-evolving complex (PS II/OEC). This information will provide important structural and mech...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Chu HA,Gardner MT,Hillier W,Babcock GT

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recommendations are given for naming of genes coding for reaction center, antenna and electron transport proteins in green photosynthetic bacteria and heliobacteria. ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Bryant DA

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maximum photosynthetic CO2 exchange rates (Pn) of single attached leaves were determined for several cassava cultivars selected from different habitats and grown in pots outdoors at CIAT, Colombia, S.A. Pn rates were in a narrow range of 22 to 26 μmol CO2 m(-2)s(-1) for all cultivars tested when measured at high photo...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： El-Sharkawy MA,Cock JH,Held AA

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron transfer pathways in photosynthesis involve interactions between membrane-bound complexes such as reaction centres with an extrinsic partner. In this study, the biological specificity of electron transfer between the reaction centre-light-harvesting 1-PufX complex and its extrinsic electron donor, cytochrome ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Vasilev C,Brindley AA,Olsen JD,Saer RG,Beatty JT,Hunter CN

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The storage of light energy in chemical form through photosynthesis is the key process underlying life as we know it. To utilize photosynthates efficiently as structural materials or as fuel to drive endergonic processes, they have to be transported from where they are produced to where they are needed. In this primer...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Knoblauch M,Peters WS

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed a mutant Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942, termed R2HECAT, in which the entire phycobilisome rod operon has been deleted. In the whole cell absorption spectra of R2HECAT, the peak corresponding to phycocyanin (PC), λmax≈620 nm, could not be detected. However, a single pigment-protein fraction with λmax=6...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Bhalerao RP,Gillbro T,Gustafsson P

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of root applications of kinetin, gibberellic acid (GA3) and indoleacetic acid (IAA) on photosynthesis was measured using an open infrared CO2 gas-exchange system. There was a 30-35% increase in the photosynthetic rates (mg CO2/dm(2)/hr) of attached leaves within 8 hr following root treatment with 0.47 μM k...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Dong CN,Arteca RN

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic prokaryotes and widely used for photosynthetic research as model organisms. Partly due to their prokaryotic nature, however, estimation of photosynthesis by chlorophyll fluorescence measurements is sometimes problematic in cyanobacteria. For example, plastoquinone pool is reduced in th...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Ogawa T,Misumi M,Sonoike K

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relationships between induced high leaf intercellular CO₂ concentrations, leaf K⁺ and NO₃⁻ ion movement and early fruit formation under macronutrient limitation are not well understood. We examined the effects and interactions of reduced K/N input treatments on leaf intercellular CO₂, photosynthesis rate, carboxylatio...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Li H,Li T,Fu G,Katulanda P

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of primary and secondary nitrogen metabolism in plants by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is comprehensively reviewed. NMR is a versatile analytical tool, and the combined use of (1)H, (2)H, (13)C, (14)N and (15)N NMR allows detailed investigation of the acquisition, assimilation and metabol...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Mesnard F,Ratcliffe RG

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00