Nano-mechanical mapping of the interactions between surface-bound RC-LH1-PufX core complexes and cytochrome c 2 attached to an AFM probe.

abstract：:Isolated mesophyll cells from darkened leaves of the C(4) plant Digitaria sanguinalis keep functional plasmodesmata that allow the free exchange of low molecular mass compounds with the surrounding medium. This cell suspension system has been used to measure C(4) PEPC activity in situ using a spectrophotometric assay....

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Pierre JN,Prieto JL,Gadal P,Vidal J

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intra- and inter-specific variation in CO2 assimilation rate (A) in Triticum spp. is well documented for reproductive growth stages. Research was conducted to characterize early vegetative photosynthetic variation in a diverse set of cultivated hexaploid wheat (T. aestivum L.) germplasm and in wild tetraploid (T. dico...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Carver BF,Johnson RC,Rayburn AL

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to more clearly define the physiological effects of PS II herbicides on chloroplast thylakoid membrane activity and composition. Barley (Hordeum vulgare L. cv Boone) was grown in hydroponic culture at 20°C in a growth chamber with a light intensity of 500 μmole photons m(-2) s(-1). Atrazine (2...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： De la Torre WR,Burkey KO

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorophyll (Chl) is an essential component of the photosynthetic apparatus. Embedded into Chl-binding proteins, Chl molecules play a central role in light harvesting and charge separation within the photosystems. It is critical for the photosynthetic cell to not only ensure the synthesis of a sufficient amount of new...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Sobotka R

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluate low-temperature (low-T) emission spectra of photosystem II core complexes (PSII-cc) previously reported in the literature, which are compared with emission spectra of PSII-cc obtained in this work from spinach and for dissolved PSII crystals from Thermosynechococcus (T.) elongatus. This new spectral datase...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Chen J,Kell A,Acharya K,Kupitz C,Fromme P,Jankowiak R

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorophyll fluorescence imaging has been used to analyse the response elicited in Phaseolus vulgaris after inoculation with Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola 1448A (compatible interaction) and P. syringae pv. tomato DC3000 (incompatible interaction). With the aim of modulating timing of symptom development, diffe...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Rodríguez-Moreno L,Pineda M,Soukupová J,Macho AP,Beuzón CR,Barón M,Ramos C

更新日期：2008-04-01 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：:C4 photosynthesis is a complex trait that has a high degree of natural variation, involving anatomical and biochemical changes relative to the ancestral C3 state. It has evolved at least 66 times across a variety of lineages and the evolutionary route from C3 to C4 is likely conserved but not necessarily genetically i...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Covshoff S,Burgess SJ,Kneřová J,Kümpers BM

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This concise review describes the current status of research into how carotenoids function in bacterial photosynthesis. This is illustrated by reference to very recent studies on both the photoprotective and antenna functions of carotenoids. The major remaining open questions on the detailed molecular mechanisms invol...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Fraser NJ,Hashimoto H,Cogdell RJ

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of chlorophyll a fluorescence and photosynthesis as affected by temperature were measured in cucumber leaf discs. Abrupt changes of the maximal variable fluorescence, Fv(p), and photosynthesis were observed around 9° and 21°C when the temperature was decreased from 30° to 0°C. The temperature-dependent maxim...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Janssen LH,Van Hasselt PR

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NADP:ferredoxin oxidoreductase (EC. 1.6.7.1.) isolated from a thermophilic blue-green alga, Synechococcus sp., was stable at temperatures up to 65°C. The diaphorase and cytochrome c reductase activities of the enzyme were low at 25°C but increased with elevated temperature to reach a maximum at about 60°C. The pH-prof...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Koike H,Katoh S

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biogenesis and oxygen-evolving activity of cyanobacterial Photosystem II (PSII) is dependent on a number of accessory proteins not found in the crystallised dimeric complex. These include Psb27, a small lipoprotein attached to the lumenal side of PSII, which has been assigned a role in regulating the assembly of t...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Michoux F,Takasaka K,Boehm M,Komenda J,Nixon PJ,Murray JW

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After a brief prologue on Otto Kandler's life, we describe briefly his pioneering work on photosynthesis (photophosphorylation and the carbon cycle) and his key participation in the discovery of the concept of three forms of life (Archaea, Prokarya, and Eukarya). With Otto Kandler's passing, both the international pho...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Govindjee,Tanner W

更新日期：2018-09-01 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：:Biogenesis of the photosynthetic apparatus in greening etiolated leaves of barley (Hordeum vulgare L) was investigated by an approach permitting investigation of this process under conditions that minimize differences in plastid development. Distributions of barley leaves greening for 24 h as to chlorophyll content an...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Radyuk MS,Homan NM

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The previous work in our lab showed that the spinach chloroplast ATP synthase epsilon mutant with 3 amino acid residues deleted from the N-terminus had much lower ability to inhibit ATP hydrolysis and block proton leakage in comparison to a mutant with 1 or 2 residues deleted from the N-terminus. The present study aim...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Zeng X,Ni Z,Shi X,Wei J,Shen Y

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-component regulatory systems that respond to changes in redox potential have recently been discovered in bacteria. 'Redox sensors' are defined as electron carriers which initiate control of gene expression upon oxidation or reduction. 'Redox response regulators' are defined as DNA-binding proteins which modify gen...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Allen JF

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effect of water-soluble and stable sucrose-bound iron oxyhydroxide nanoparticles [Fe[III] sucrose complex (FSC)] on the efficiency of electron transport in the photosystem II membranes was studied. FSC significantly increases (by a factor 1.5) the rate of light-induced oxygen evolution in the presence of alternative e...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Semin BК,Davletshina LN,Rubin AB

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I provide here a personal perspective on (i) the awards that were given to young investigators at the 2008 and 2009 Gordon Research Conferences on Biochemistry/Biophysics of Photosynthesis; and (ii) the ambiance at these conferences through some photographs, particularly of the 2009 conference. ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Govindjee

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triplet state electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) experiments have been carried out at X-band on Rb. sphaeroides R-26 reaction centers that have been reconstituted with the carotenoid, spheroidene, and exchanged with 13(2)-OH-Zn-bacteriochlorophyll a and [3-vinyl]-13(2)-OH-bacteriochlorophyll a at the monomeric, 'ac...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Frank HA,Chynwat V,Hartwich G,Meyer M,Katheder I,Scheer H

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When 23°C-grown potato leaves (Solanum tuberosum L.) were exposed for 15 min to elevated temperatures in weak light, a dramatic and preferential inactivation of Photosystem (PS) II was observed at temperatures higher than about 38°C. In vivo photoacoustic measurements indicated that, concomitantly with the loss of PS ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Havaux M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we demonstrate sulfite interaction with oxygen and PSII electron acceptors (ferricyanide and para-benzoquinone) during measurement of oxygen evolution in chloroplasts. Redox potentials of oxygen, ferricyanide and para-benzoquinone allow them to compete for sulfite. Without taking this into account, sulf...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Beauregard M,Popovic R

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cassava, bean and maize leaves were fed with(14)CO2 in light and the primary products of photosynthesis identified 5 and 10 seconds after assimilation. In maize, approximately three quarters of the labelled carbon was incorporated in C4 acids, in beans about two thirds in PGA, and in cassava approximately 40-60% in C4...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Cock JH,Riaño NM,El-Sharkawy MA,Yamel LF,Bastidas G

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Around 1960 experiments of Arnold and Clayton, Chance and Nishimura and Calvin and coworkers demonstrated that the primary photosynthetic electron transfer processes are not abolished by cooling to cryogenic temperatures. After a brief historical introduction, this review discusses some aspects of electron transfer in...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Aartsma TJ,Amesz J

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants, chlorophylls (chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b) are the most abundant tetrapyrrole molecules and are essential for photosynthesis. The first committed step of chlorophyll biosynthesis is the insertion of Mg(2+) into protoporphyrin IX, and thus subsequent steps of the biosynthesis are called the Mg branch. As...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Masuda T

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylglycerol (PG), containing the unique fatty acid Delta3, trans-16:1-hexadecenoic acid, is a minor but ubiquitous lipid component of thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts and cyanobacteria. We investigated its role in electron transfers and structural organization of Photosystem II (PSII) by treating Arabidops...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Kim EH,Razeghifard R,Anderson JM,Chow WS

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of photosynthetic pigments in the development of separation methods in biochemistry during the period 1900-1980 is described beginning with M. Tswett who introduced separation of chlorophylls and carotenoids on columns and coined the term chromatography in 1906. In Uppsala, T. Svedberg developed the ultracent...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Albertsson PA

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：:The chloroplast photo-oxidation and the expression of the Cab gene Lhcb1, encoding the Lhcb1 light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-protein of PS II, have been studied in leaf cells of maize treated with the two bleaching herbicides norflurazon and amitrole and of the two carotenoid-free mutants vp9 and vp2 grown under high...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Rocca NL,Barbato R,Vecchia FD,Rascio N

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detached wheat leaves were illuminated in air until a steady rate of photosynthesis was established. Then the gas was changed to 1% O2, 99% N2 and after 2.5 h further illumination the capacity of the leaves for photosynthesis in air was decreased to approximately 50%. Measurement of RuBP carboxylase activity in extrac...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Bovle FA,Keys AJ

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00