In vitro stereospecific hydration activities of the 3-vinyl group of chlorophyll derivatives by BchF and BchV enzymes involved in bacteriochlorophyll c biosynthesis of green sulfur bacteria.

abstract：:The linear, four-step oxidation of water to molecular oxygen by photosystem II requires cooperation between redox reactions driven by light and a set of redox reactions involving the S-states within the oxygen-evolving complex. The oxygenevolving complex is a highly ordered structure in which a number of polypeptides ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Ghanotakis DF,Yocum CF

更新日期：1985-01-01 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

abstract：:Photosynthetic electron transfer has been examined in whole cells, isolated membranes and in partially purified reaction centers (RCs) of Roseicyclus mahoneyensis, strain ML6 and Porphyrobacter meromictius, strain ML31, two species of obligate aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria. Photochemical activity in strain ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Rathgeber C,Alric J,Hughes E,Verméglio A,Yurkov V

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase from leaves of the C4 plant Setaria verticillata (L.) Beauv. is activated by light; day levels of activity are reached after 30 minutes of illumination. Photoactivation is prevented by inhibitors of photosynthetic electron flow or of photophosphorylation and by D,L-glyceraldehyde, which...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Samaras Y,Manetas Y,Gavalas NA

更新日期：1988-06-01 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：:In this brief report, we provide a pictorial essay on an international conference "Photosynthesis Research for Sustainability-2013 in honor of Jalal A. Aliyev" that was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, during June 5-9, 2013 ( http://photosynthesis2013.cellreg.org/ ). We begin this report with a brief note on Jalal Aliyev, th...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Allakhverdiev SI,Huseynova IM,Govindjee

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:There is diverse, yet controversial fossil evidence for the existence of photosynthesis 3500 million years ago. Among the most persuasive evidence is the stromatolites described from low grade metasedimentary rocks in Western Australia and South Africa. Based on the understanding of the paleobiology of stromatolites a...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Awramik SM

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pigment system containing carotenoids and oxidised reaction centre pigments is present in chromatophores of Rhodospirillum rubrum and this pigment system may cause fluorescence quenching when a still unidentified chromatophore component is in its oxidised state. Besides by its action spectrum, this pigment system is...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Goedheer JC

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MOA-stilbene is known to be a specific inhibitor of the Qo site of mammalian cytochrome bc 1 complex. We show that it also binds to the chloroplast cytochrome bf complex. Binding to the reduced enzyme induces a red-shift of the Soret and visible absorption bands of the haems b. Steady state and single turnover experim...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Rich PR,Madgwick SA,Brown S,von Jagow G,Brandt U

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

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：:A computer model comprising light reactions in PS II and PS I, electron-proton transport reactions in mesophyll and bundle sheath chloroplasts, all enzymatic reactions and most of the known regulatory functions of NADP-ME type C(4) photosynthesis has been developed as a system of differential budget equations for inte...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Laisk A,Edwards GE

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:It has been known for some time that bicarbonate reverses the inhibition, by formate under HCO3 (-)-depletion conditions, of electron transport in thylakoid membranes. It has been shown that the major effect is on the electron acceptor side of photosystem II, at the site of plastoquinone reduction. After presenting a ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Blubaugh DJ,Govindjee

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyamines (PAs) are small metabolites that are produced and oxidized in chloroplasts with an obscure mode of action. Recently, we showed that qE is stimulated by PAs in higher plants (Nicotiana tabacum) and in genetically modified plants with elevated thylakoid-associated PAs (Ioannidis and Kotzabasis Biochim Biophys...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Ioannidis NE,Sfichi-Duke L,Kotzabasis K

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：:The effect of temperatures between 15 and 50°C on the light utilization efficiency of leaf net photosynthesis was studied in two C4 grasses and two C3 legumes. In the legumes, light utilization efficiency (μ mol of CO2 fixed per μ Einstein of incident photosynthetic quantum flux) declined linearly with temperature bet...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Ludlow MM

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonlinear optical responses of bacteriochlorophyll a (BChl a) were investigated by means of the three-pulse four-wave mixing (FWM) technique under the resonant excitation into the Q ( y ) band. The experimental results are explained by a theoretical model calculation including the Brownian oscillation mode of the solv...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Sugisaki M,Fujii R,Cogdell RJ,Hashimoto H

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：:Upon high light excitation in photosynthetic bacteria, various triplet states of pigments can accumulate leading to harmful effects. Here, the generation and lifetime of flash-induced carotenoid triplets (3Car) have been studied by observation of the quenching of bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) fluorescence in different st...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Sipka G,Maróti P

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chlorina-f2 mutant of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) contains no chlorophyll b in its light-harvesting antenna, whereas the chlorina-103 mutant contains approximately 10% of the chlorophyll b found in wild-type. The absolute chlorophyll antenna size for Photosystem-II in wild-type, chlorina-103 and chlorina-f2 mutant...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Harrison MA,Nemson JA,Melis A

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dry weight and Relative Growth Rate of Lemna gibba were significantly increased by CO2 enrichment up to 6000 μl CO2 l(-1). This high CO2 optimum for growth is probably due to the presence of nonfunctional stomata. The response to high CO2 was less or absent following four days growth in 2% O2. The Leaf Area Ratio decr...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Andersen IH,Dons C,Nilsen S,Haugstad MK

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temperature dependence of the partial reactions leading to turn-over of the UQH2:cyt c 2 oxidoreductase of Rhodobacter sphaeroides have been studied. The redox properties of the cytochrome components show a weak temperature dependence over the range 280-330 K, with coefficients of about 1 m V per degree; our resul...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Crofts AR,Wang Z

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polypeptide composition of thylakoid membranes of the red alga Cyanidium caldarium was studied by PAGE in the presence of lithium dodecyl sulfate. The thylakoid membranes were shown to contain 65 polypeptides with mol wt from 110 to 10 kDa. PS I isolated from C. caldarium cells is composed of at least 5 components...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Yurina NP,Karakashev GV,Karapetyan NV,Odintsova MS

更新日期：1991-10-01 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：:A simple approach to determine CO2/O2 specificity factor (τ) of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase is described. The assay measures the amount of CO2 fixation at varying [CO2]/[O2] ratios after complete consumption of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate (RuBP). Carbon dioxide fixation catalyzed by the carboxylase w...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Kostov RV,McFadden BA

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The post-translational modification consisting in the formation/reduction of disulfide bonds has been the subject of intense research in plants since the discovery in the 1970s that many chloroplastic enzymes are regulated by light through dithiol-disulfide exchange reactions catalyzed by oxidoreductases called thiore...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Chibani K,Couturier J,Selles B,Jacquot JP,Rouhier N

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two lessons I have learned during my research career are the importance of following up unexpected observations and realizing that the most obvious interpretation of such observations can be rational but wrong. When you carry out an experiment there is usually an expectation that the result will fall within a range of...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： John Ellis R

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flash-induced absorbance measurements at 830 nm on both nanosecond and microsecond timescales have been used to characterise the effect of ultraviolet light on Photosystem II core particles. A combination of UV-A and UV-B, closely simulating the spectrum of sunlight below 350 nm, was found to have a primary effect on ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Post A,Lukins PB,Walker PJ,Larkum AW

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00