The Ile(L229) → Met mutation impairs the quinone binding to the QB-pocket in reaction centers of Rhodobacter sphaeroides.

abstract：:Moderately high temperature reduces photosynthetic capacities of leaves with large effects on thylakoid reactions of photosynthesis, including xanthophyll conversion in the lipid phase of the thylakoid membrane. In previous studies, we have found that leaf temperature of 40°C increased zeaxanthin accumulation in dark-...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Zhang R,Kramer DM,Cruz JA,Struck KR,Sharkey TD

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several models have been proposed to interpret the mechanism of proton-pumping associated with the electron transfer reactions in the cytochrome b/f complex. Energetics considerations suggest that the proton pump is coupled to the oxidation of cytochrome b by plastoquinone. Experiments performed in living cells under ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Joliot P,Joliot A

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the impact of iron deficiency on bioenergetic pathways in Chlamydomonas, we compared growth rates, iron content, and photosynthetic parameters systematically in acetate versus CO(2)-grown cells. Acetate-grown cells have, predictably (2-fold) greater abundance of respiration components but also, counter-...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Terauchi AM,Peers G,Kobayashi MC,Niyogi KK,Merchant SS

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

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：:The factors governing quinone protein binding in the photosynthetic bacterium Rps. viridis are investigated via use of empirical intermolecular energy calculations using the GRID method (PJ Goodford (1985) J Med Chem 28: 849-854). A probe atom corresponding to a carbonyl oxygen atom is used to investigate regions exhi...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： O'Malley PJ,Braithwaite CJ

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fabaceae tree Butea monosperma (TAUB.; syn. Erythrina monosperma (LAM.)) is widely distributed in Central and West-India. We studied it at three sites, i.e. at two locations with contrasting exposure (NE and SW, respectively) in a small mountain range with poor soil on highly drained rocky slopes and at a third lo...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Mikosch M,Kumari N,Sharma T,Sharma V,Gessler A,Fischer-Schliebs E,Lüttge U

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of light on the metabolism of ammonia was studied by subjecting detached maize leaves to 150 or 1350 μmol m(-2) s(-1) PAR during incubation with the leaf base in 2 mM (15)NH4Cl. After up to 60 min, leaves were extracted. Ammonia, glutamine, glycine, serine, alanine, and aspartate were separated by isotherma...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Klaus RE,Berger MG,Fock HP

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The absorption spectra of two light harvesting complexes from higher plants, CP29 and LHC II, have been analysed in the Soret region in order to obtain a description in terms of the absorption spectra of the individual pigments. This information is of great practical use when applying spectroscopic techniques to the s...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Croce R,Cinque G,Holzwarth AR,Bassi R

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The afterglow (AG) band of thermoluminescence (TL) has been investigated in leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana. Excitation of dark-adapted leaves with two saturating single turn-over flashes induced the appearance of a complex TL glow curve that could be well simulated by three components: the two components, B1 and B2, o...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Roncel M,Ortega JM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unique light-harvesting antennas in the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum, called chlorosomes, consist of self-aggregates of bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) c. In the biosynthesis of BChl c, BciC demethoxycarbonylase removes the C132-methoxycarbonyl group to facilitate the self-aggregation of BChl c. We previous...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Teramura M,Harada J,Tamiaki H

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The photosystem II (PSII) manganese-stabilizing protein (PsbO) is known to be the essential PSII extrinsic subunit for stabilization and retention of the Mn and Cl(-) cofactors in the oxygen evolving complex (OEC) of PSII, but its function relative to Ca(2+) is less clear. To obtain a better insight into the relations...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Popelkova H,Boswell N,Yocum C

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Energy transfer of the light harvesting complex LHC-II trimer, extracted from spinach, was studied in the Q(y) region at room temperature by femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy. Configuration interaction exciton method [Linnanto et al. (1999) J Phys Chem B 103: 8739-8750] and 2.72 A structural information re...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Linnanto J,Martiskainen J,Lehtovuori V,Ihalainen J,Kananavicius R,Barbato R,Korppi-Tommola J

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：:A synthetic fluorochromous lipid, rhodaminyl triglyceride (rhodaminyl TG), was intercalated into isolated thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts up to 30 molecules per 100 molecules of chlorophyll. As a result of fluorochrome presence, an absorption band appeared in a yellow-green spectrum region, its intensity being com...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Sorokin EM,Bobylyev GS,Molotkovsky YG

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A short list of the twentieth century's dominant figures in photosynthesis would unquestionably include Otto Warburg. One of his many discoveries, the 'bicarbonate effect' remains a lasting puzzle to his heirs in the field. Recent developments in this area of research have renewed interest and call for a re-examinatio...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Stemler AJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroplasts of a chlorophyll (Chl) b-less barley mutant were solubilized with digitonin and fractionated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with sodium deoxycholate in the running buffer. By this procedure, in contrast to using sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) for solubilization, a Chl a-protein analogous to the major ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Duranton J,Brown J

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of photosynthetic electron transport at different levels of structural and functional organization of photosynthetic apparatus provides efficient performance of oxygenic photosynthesis in plants. This review begins with a brief overview of the chloroplast electron transport chain. Then two noninvasive bioph...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Tikhonov AN

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three Chl-protein complexes were isolated from thylakoid membranes of Bryopsis maxima and Ulva pertusa, marine green algae that inhabit the intertidal zone of the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of Japan by dodecyl-beta-D-maltoside polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The slowest-moving fractions showed low Chl a/b...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Yamazaki JY,Kozu A,Fukunaga Y

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four Indica and five Japonica varieties of rice (Oryza sativa L.) were examined to elucidate their differences in photosynthetic activity and dark respiratory rate as influenced by leaf nitrogen levels and temperatures. The photosynthetic rates of single leaf showed correlations with total nitrogen and soluble protein...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Weng JH,Chen CY

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here our tribute to an outstanding unique scientist, a pioneer of plant biochemistry, best known for his seminal ground-breaking discoveries related to electron and proton transport, and their intimate relation to ATP synthesis in chloroplasts. His dedication and in-depth understanding of science was matche...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Govindjee

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data on cadmium accumulation in chloroplasts of terrestrial plants are scarce and contradictory. We introduced CdSO4 in hydroponic media to the final concentrations 80 and 250 μM and studied the accumulation of Cd in chloroplasts of Hordeum vulgare and Zea mays. Barley accumulated more Cd in the chloroplasts as compar...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Lysenko EA,Klaus AA,Pshybytko NL,Kusnetsov VV

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light-harvesting Chl a/b protein complexes were isolated from the higher plant Sinapis alba, the green alga Chlorella fusca, and the prasinophycean alga Mantoniella squamata by mild gel electrophoresis. The energy transfer from chlorophyll b and the accessory xanthophyll was measured by means of fluoresence spectrosco...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Wilhelm C,Lenarz-Weiler I

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most chloroplasts undergo changes in composition, function and structure in response to growth irradiance. However, Tradescantia albiflora, a facultative shade plant, is unable to modulate its light-harvesting components and has the same Chl a/Chl b ratios and number of functional PS II and PS I reaction centres on a ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Anderson JM,Soon Chow W,Park YI,Franklin LA,Robinson SP,van Hasselt PR

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacteria perform photosynthesis with the use of large light-harvesting antennae called phycobilisomes (PBSs). These hemispherical PBSs contain hundreds of open-chain tetrapyrrole chromophores bound to different peptides, providing an arrangement in which excitation energy is funnelled towards the PBS core from wh...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Ranjbar Choubeh R,Sonani RR,Madamwar D,Struik PC,Bader AN,Robert B,van Amerongen H

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Roderick K. Clayton passed away on October 23, 2011, at the age of 89, shortly after the plan for this dedicatory issue of Photosynthesis Research had been hatched. I had just written a lengthy letter to him to re-establish contact after a hiatus of 2 or 3 years, and to suggest that I visit him to talk about his life....

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Wraight CA

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of the absorption and fluorescence characteristics of the D1/D2/cytb-559 reaction centre complex of Photosystem II has been carried out by gaussian decomposition of absorption spectra both at room temperature and 72 K and of the room temperature fluorescence spectrum. A five component fit was found in which th...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Garlaschi FM,Zucchelli G,Giavazzi P,Jennings RC

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of the efficiency with which leaves convert absorbed light to photochemical energy [intrinsic efficiency of open photosystem II (PSII) centers, as the ratio of variable to maximal chlorophyll fluorescence] as well as leaf xanthophyll composition (interconversions of the xanthophyll cycle pigments violaxanth...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Demmig-Adams B,Cohu CM,Muller O,Adams WW 3rd

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rubisco (ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase) catalyzes carboxylation of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate, the first in a series of reactions leading to the incorporation of atmospheric CO₂ into biomass. Rubisco requires Rubisco activase (RCA), an AAA+ ATPase that reactivates Rubisco by remodelling the conformati...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Scales JC,Parry MA,Salvucci ME

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review focuses on our recent efforts in synthetic ruthenium-tyrosine-manganese chemistry mimicking the donor side reactions of Photosystem II. Tyrosine and tryptophan residues were linked to ruthenium photosensitizers, which resulted in model complexes for proton-coupled electron transfer from amino acids. A new ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Lomoth R,Magnuson A,Sjödin M,Huang P,Styring S,Hammarström L

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-reconstitution of the extrinsic proteins and Photosystem II (PS II) from a green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, and a higher plant,Spinacia oleracea, was performed to clarify the differences of binding properties of the extrinsic proteins between these two species of organisms. (1) Chlamydomonas PsbP and PsbQ ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Suzuki T,Ohta H,Enami I

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00