Quantum yield measurements of light-induced H₂ generation in a photosystem I-[FeFe]-H₂ase nanoconstruct.

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：: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：: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：:To determine the fluorescence properties of cyanobacterial Photosystem I (PS I) in relatively intact systems, fluorescence emission from 20 to 295 K and polarization at 77 K have been measured from phycobilisomes-less thylakoids of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and a mutant strain lacking Photosystem II (PS II). At 295 K...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Wittmershaus BP,Woolf VM,Vermaas WF

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The world is facing energy crisis and environmental issues due to the depletion of fossil fuels and increasing CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. Growing microalgae can contribute to practical solutions for these global problems because they can harvest solar energy and capture CO2 by converting it into biofuel usin...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Razeghifard R

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：:Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr. cv. Williams 82 and A3127] plants were grown in the field under long-term soil moisture deficit and irrigation to determine the effects of severe drought stress on the photosynthetic capacity of soybean leaves. Afternoon leaf water potentials, stomatal conductances, intercellular CO2 co...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Frederick JR,Alm DM,Hesketh JD,Below FE

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Envelope membranes were isolated by sucrose density gradient floatation centrifugation from the homogenate of cyanelles prepared from Cyanophora paradoxa. Two yellow bands were separated after 40 h of centrifugation. The buoyant density of one of the two fractions (fraction Y2) coincided with that of inner envelope me...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Koike H,Ikeda Y,Yusa F,Kashino Y,Satoh K

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:Photosynthesis powers our planet and is a source of inspiration for developing artificial constructs mimicking many aspects of the natural energy transducing process. In the complex machinery of photosystem II (PSII), the redox activity of the tyrosine Z (Tyrz) hydrogen-bonded to histidine 190 (His190) is essential fo...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Odella E,Moore TA,Moore AL

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the ferredoxin:thioredoxin system in the reversible light activation of chloroplast enzymes by thiol-disulfide interchange with thioredoxins is now well established. Recent fruitful collaboration between biochemists and structural biologists, reflected by the shared authorship of the paper, allowed to solv...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Dai S,Johansson K,Miginiac-Maslow M,Schürmann P,Eklund H

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:The discovery of a new maize (Zea mays L.) transposon system, Mutator, and the cloning of the 1.4 kilobase transposon, Mul, have made feasible the isolation of nuclear photosynthetic genes which are recognized only by their mutant phenotype. Mutant maize plants which express a high chlorophyll fluorescent (hcf) phenot...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Cook WB,Miles D

更新日期：1988-10-01 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：:A correlated influence of cation concentration and excitation energy level on PS II Abbreviations: AMPD = 2-amino-2-methyl-1,3-propanediol; DCIP = 2-6 dichlorophenol indophenol; DCIPH2 = DCIP in reduced state; DCIPr = rate of DCIP-reduction; DCMU = 3-(3,4 dichlorophenyl)1-1 dimethyl-urea; Fv = variable fluorescence; F...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Berkaloff C,Duval JC

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen evolving photosystem II particles were exposed to 100 and 250 W m(-2) white light at 20°C under aerobic, anaerobic and strongly reducing (presence of dithionite) conditions. Three types of photoinactivation processes with different kinetics could be distinguished: (1) The fast process which occurs under strongl...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Setlík I,Allakhverdiev SI,Nedbal L,Setlíková E,Klimov VV

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：: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：:We have previously investigated the response mechanisms of photosystem II complexes from spinach to strong UV and visible irradiations (Wei et al J Photochem Photobiol B 104:118-125, 2011). In this work, we extend our study to the effects of strong light on the unusual cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina, which is abl...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Hou X,Raposo A,Hou HJ

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：: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：:Exposure of the red alga Porphyra perforata or leaves of Phytolacca americana and Echinodorus sp. to white light equivalent to full sunlight for short periods induced large decreases of variable fluorescence measured at 695 nm at 77K. This change was not produced by photoinhibition but rather appeared to result from a...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Fork DC,Bose S,Herbert SK

更新日期：1986-01-01 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 oxygen flash yield (YO2) and photochemical yield of PS II (ΦPS II) were simultaneously detected in intact Chlorella cells on a bare platinum oxygen rate electrode. The two yields were measured as a function of background irradiance in the steady-state and following a transition from light to darkness. During stead...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Prasil O,Kolber Z,Berry JA,Falkowski PG

更新日期：1996-06-01 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：:A time line of important research relating to anoxygenic photosynthetic organisms is presented. The time line includes discoveries of organisms, metabolic capabilities, molecular complexes and genetic systems. It also pinpoints important milestones in our understanding of the structure, function, organization, assembl...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Gest H,Blankenship RE

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：: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：:Since 1986, non-uniform photosynthesis over the leaf area that may be attributed to patchy stomatal closure, has been an important issue in stress physiology of photosynthesis. In this review, I first outline the gaseous environment within the intercellular spaces, because this is the most fundamental background of th...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Terashima I

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ongoing work has led to the identification of most of the biochemical steps in carotenoid biosynthesis in chlorophototrophic bacteria. In carotenogenesis, a relatively small number of modifications leads to a great diversity of carotenoid structures. This review examines the individual steps in the pathway, discusses ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Maresca JA,Graham JE,Bryant DA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00