Shmuel Malkin (1934-2017) : Listening to photosynthesis and making music.

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：: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：: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：:A peptide ranging from residue 229 to 240 of the D1 protein of Photosystem (PS) II was synthesized and lanthanides were used as candidates of calcium. Fluorescence and FTIR spectroscopy were used to test the conformational adaptation after lanthanide additions. Fluorescence spectroscopy showed that the synthetic pepti...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Wang J,Zhang LX,Liu ZL,Liang HG,Yang L,Hu XY

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flash-induced kinetics of the membrane potential increase related to electron transfer within the cytochrome (cyt) b/c1 complex (Phase III) and that of cyt c1+c2 reduction have been measured as a function of myxothiazol concentration in isolated chromatophores and whole cells of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Upon addition ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Joliot P,Verméglio A,Joliot A

更新日期：1996-05-01 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：:This article gives an historical overview of our group's research on various metabolite translocators of chloroplasts, such as the translocators for phosphorylated intermediates of the Calvin-Benson cycle and of glycolysis, of ADP and ATP, of dicarboxylates, of pyruvate and of hexoses; how it began and where it led to...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Heldt HW

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chlorophyll-protein and polypeptide composition of manganese deficient and control sugar beet thylakoids was examined using three different detergent-electrophoresis systems. On a per chlorophyll basis, manganese deficiency reduced the amounts of CPa complex (separated by sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS)-polyacrylamide...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Abadia J,Nishio JN,Terry N

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：: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：: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：:In higher plants, photosystem II (PSII) is a multi-subunit pigment-protein complex embedded in the thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts, where it is present mostly in dimeric form within the grana. Its light-harvesting antenna system, LHCII, is composed of trimeric and monomeric complexes, which can associate in variab...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Albanese P,Nield J,Tabares JA,Chiodoni A,Manfredi M,Gosetti F,Marengo E,Saracco G,Barber J,Pagliano C

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:Sulfur is one of the critical elements in living matter, as it participates in several structural, metabolic and catalytic activities. Photosynthesis is an important process that entails the use of sulfur during both the light and carbon reactions. Nearly half of global photosynthetic carbon fixation is carried out by...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Norici A,Hell R,Giordano M

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:Recently, a number of techniques, some of them relatively new and many often used in combination, have given a clearer picture of the dynamic role of electron transport in Photosystem I of photosynthesis and of coupled cyclic photophosphorylation. For example, the photoacoustic technique has detected cyclic electron t...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Fork DC,Herbert SK

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coupling factor CF1 is a catalytic part of chloroplast ATP synthase which is exposed to stroma whose viscosity is many-fold higher than that of reaction mixtures commonly used to measure kinetics of CF1-catalyzed ATP hydrolysis. This study is focused on the effect of medium viscosity modulated by sucrose or bovine...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Malyan AN

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pigment-protein-complexes of two chlorophyll b deficient mutants of Arabidopsis and from the wild type were separated electrophoretically. Light-harvesting proteins were absent in the chlorophyll b free mutant ch(1) and their amount was reduced in the mutant ch(2) which has a reduced content of chlorophyll b. The rati...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Rühle W,Reiländer H,Otto KD,Wild A

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this communication, evidence is presented from the kinetics of QA (-) decay (where QA is the first plastoquinone electron acceptor of photosystem II) and oxygen evolution for the requirement of bicarbonate in the electron transport in a cyanobacteriumSynechocystis (Pasteur Culture Collection 6803). A large slowing ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Cao J,Govindjee

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a novel, pulsed micro-second time-resolved photoacoustic (PA) instrument, we measured thermal dissipation and energy storage (ES) in the intact cells of wild type (WT) Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, and mutants lacking either PSI or PSII reaction centers (RCs). On this time scale, the kinetic contributions of the th...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Yan C,Schofield O,Dubinsky Z,Mauzerall D,Falkowski PG,Gorbunov MY

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:Historically, two main concepts guided research into possible mechanisms of light-induced atomic rearrangements in oxygenic photosynthesis: Photodecomposition of CO2 and photodecomposition of water. Both concepts envisioned photoinduced transfers of cumbersome whole atoms and not, as is currently held, photoinduced el...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Arnon DI

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electronic structure of a Mn(II) ion bound to highly oxidizing reaction centers of Rhodobacter sphaeroides was studied in a mutant modified to possess a metal binding site at a location comparable to the Mn4Ca cluster of photosystem II. The Mn-binding site of the previously described mutant, M2, contains three car...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Tufts AA,Flores M,Olson TL,Williams JC,Allen JP

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：:Photosystem I particles containing 30-40 chlorophyll a molecules per primary electron donor P700 were subjected to 1.5 ps low density laser flashes at 610 nm resulting in excitation of the antenna chlorophyll a molecules followed by energy transfer to P700 and subsequent oxidation of P700. Absorbance changes were moni...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Wasielewski MR,Fenton JM,Govindjee

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous investigations have shown that increased source strength as a result of elevated CO(2) can alter the timing of the phases of change that occur in photosynthetic rates during dicot leaf ontogeny [Miller et al. (1997) Plant Physiol 115: 1195-1200]. To evaluate the converse situation of decreased source strength...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Miller A,Schlagnhaufer C,Spalding M,Rodermel S

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：: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：: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：:The photoenzymatic cycle of the light-dependent NADPH:protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase (LPOR) was investigated in situ during early stages of development of bean leaves under light-dark cycles (LDC). In the experimental system used in this study, prolamellar bodies developed during night periods and disappeared duri...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Schoefs B,Franck F

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00