Occurrence of the carotenoid lactucaxanthin in higher plant LHC II.

abstract：:The xanthophyll cycle represents one of the important photoprotection mechanisms in plant cells. In the present review, we summarize current knowledge about the violaxanthin cycle of vascular plants, green and brown algae, and the diadinoxanthin cycle of the algal classes Bacillariophyceae, Xanthophyceae, Haptophyceae...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Goss R,Jakob T

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chlorosome is an antenna complex located on the cytoplasmic side of the inner membrane in green photosynthetic bacteria that contains tens of thousands of self-assembled bacteriochlorophylls (BChls). Green bacteria are known to incorporate various esterifying alcohols at the C-17 propionate position of BChls in the ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Wang Y,Freund DM,Magdaong NM,Urban VS,Frank HA,Hegeman AD,Tang JK

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years the enzymes of the C3 photosynthetic carbon reduction (PCR) cycle have been studied using the techniques of molecular biology. In this review we discuss the primary protein sequences and structural predictions that have been made for a number of these enzymes, which, with the input of crystallographic ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Raines CA,Lloyd JC,Dyer TA

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:The first research paper on photosynthesis in China was published by T.T. Li(2) in 1929. Two photosynthesis laboratories were established in Shanghai and Beijing in the 1950s and the 1960s, respectively. A photophosphorylation 'intermediate' was discovered after the energy conversion process was separated into light a...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Kuang TY,Xu C,Li LB,Shen YK

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With this Tribute, we remember and honor Thomas John (Tom) Wydrzynski. Tom was a highly innovative, independent and committed researcher, who had, early in his career, defined his life-long research goal. He was committed to understand how Photosystem II produces molecular oxygen from water, using the energy of sunlig...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Conlan B,Govindjee,Messinger J

更新日期：2019-06-01 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：:It had been proposed that a loop, typically containing 26 or 27 amino acids, which is only present in monomeric, ferredoxin-dependent, "plant-type" glutamate synthases and is absent from the catalytic α-subunits of both NADPH-dependent, heterodimeric glutamate synthases found in non-photosynthetic bacteria and NADH-de...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Tripathy JN,Hirasawa M,Sutton RB,Dasgupta A,Vaidyanathan N,Zabet-Moghaddam M,Florencio FJ,Srivastava AP,Knaff DB

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosynthetic organisms normally endeavor to optimize the efficiency of their light-harvesting apparatus. However, here we describe two bacterial isolates belonging to the genera Allochromatium and Thiocapsa that demonstrate a novel adaptation by optimizing their external growth conditions at the expense of photosynt...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Herbert RA,Gall A,Maoka T,Cogdell RJ,Robert B,Takaichi S,Schwabe S

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：:This contribution gives a brief survey of the short history since the discovery of the aerobic phototrophic bacteria to focus on a general evolutionary scenario. Most of the citations are of reviews that have covered the earlier literature and to which the reader is directed at appropriate places in the following text...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Beatty JT

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier mass spectrometric measurements, in which oxygen evolution was measured following short saturating light flashes, indicated that with a time resolution of about 30 s no form of bound water and/or an oxidation product exists up to the redox state S3 of the oxygen evolving center (R. Radmer and O. Ollinger, 1986...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Bader KP,Renger G,Schmid GH

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significance of molecular crowding in grana thylakoids of higher plants on photosystem II function was studied by 'titrating' the naturally high protein density by fusing unilamellar liposomes of the native lipid mixture with isolated grana membranes (BBY). The incorporation of lipids was monitored by equilibrium dens...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Haferkamp S,Kirchhoff H

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The psaA and psaB genes of the chloroplast genome in oxygenic photosynthetic organisms code for the major peptides of the Photosystem 1 reaction center. A heterodimer of the two polypeptides PsaA and PsaB is thought to bind the reaction center chlorophyll, P700, and the early electron acceptors A0, A1 and Fe-SX. Fe-SX...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Hallahan BJ,Purton S,Ivison A,Wright D,Evans MC

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 'Salada de Chiprana' (Chiprana Lake) is a hypersaline (30-73 per thousand), permanent and shallow lake of endorheic origin in a semi-arid region of the Ebro depression (Aragon, Spain). Magnesium sulfate and sodium chloride represent the main salts of this athalassohaline environment. Anoxic conditions occurred per...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Vila X,Guyoneaud R,Cristina XP,Figueras JB,Abella CA

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rates of net CO2 uptake were examined in developing leaves of Hydrocotyle bonariensis. Leaves that developed under high photosynthetically active radiation (48 mol m(-2) day(-1) PAR) were smaller, thicker, and reached maximum size sooner than did leaves that developed under low PAR (4.8 mol m(-2) day(-1)). Maximum net...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Longstreth DJ,Hartsock TL,Nobel PS

更新日期：1981-06-01 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：:Heliobacteria are a recently discovered group of anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria, first described in 1983. Heliobacteria contain bacteriochlorophyll g, a pigment unique to species of this group, and synthesize the simplest photosynthetic complexes of all known phototrophs. Also, unlike all other phototrophs, heliobac...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Asao M,Madigan MT

更新日期：2010-06-01 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 study of the light-harvesting complex II (LHC-II) phosphatase activity has been difficult due to the membrane association of its substrate. Thylakoid membranes labeled with [γ-(32)P]ATP were incubated with chymotrypsin, releasing phosphopeptides which served as labeled substrates for LHC-II phosphatase. Utilizing ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Hammer MF,Sarath G,Osterman JC,Markwell J

更新日期：1995-05-01 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：: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：:Lipids are important components of transmembrane protein complexes. In order to study the roles of lipids in photosystem II (PSII), we treated the PSII core dimer complex from a thermophilic cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus vulcanus with phospholipase A(2) (PLA(2)) and lipase, and examined their effects on PSII stru...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Leng J,Sakurai I,Wada H,Shen JR

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycolate oxidase (GO; EC 1.1.3.1) was purified from the leaves of three plant species:Amaranthus hypochondriacus L.(NAD-ME type C4 dicot),Pisum sativum L. (C3 species) andParthenium hysterophorus L. (C3-C4. intermediate). A flavin moiety was present in the enzyme from all the three species. The enzyme from the C4 pla...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Devi MT,Rajagopalan AV,Raghavendara AS

更新日期：1996-03-01 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：: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：:While interest in photosynthetic thermal acclimation has been stimulated by climate warming, comparing results across studies requires consistent terminology. We identify five types of photosynthetic adjustments in warming experiments: photosynthesis as measured at the high growth temperature, the growth temperature, ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Way DA,Yamori W

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoinhibition of Photosystem II (PSII) in lincomycin-treated leaves begins as a first-order reaction, but fluorescence measurements have suggested that after prolonged illumination, the number of active PSII centres stabilizes to 15-20% of control. The stabilization has been interpreted to indicate that photoinhibit...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Sarvikas P,Tyystjärvi T,Tyystjärvi E

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light-induced reaction dynamics of isolated photosynthetic membranes obtained from wild-type (WT) and reaction center (RC)-subunit deletion strains SPUHK1 (an H-subunit deletion mutant) and SK Delta LM (an (L+M) deletion mutant) of the purple non-sulphur bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum have been investigated by femtos...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Amarie S,Lupo D,Lenz MO,Saegesser R,Ghosh R,Wachtveitl J

更新日期：2010-03-01 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