Towards a more accurate future for chlorophyll a and b determinations: the inaccuracies of Daniel Arnon's assay.

abstract：:Brownian Dynamics (BD) computer simulations were used to study electrostatic interactions between turnip cytochrome f (cyt f) and spinach plastocyanin (PC). Three different spinach PC structures were studied: The X-ray crystal structure of Xue and coworkers [(1998) Protein Sci 7:2099-2105] and the NMR structure of Mus...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Gross EL

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：: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：:This article provides a glimpse into the dawning of research on chlorophyll-protein complexes and a brief recollection of the path that led us to the identification of the photosystem II reaction center, i.e., the polypeptides that carry the site of primary charge separation in oxygenic photosynthesis. A preliminary v...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Satoh K

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：: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：:Energy storage measurements by modulated photothermal radiometry (PTR) were carried out on intact leaves to assess the value of the PTR method for photosynthesis research. In particular, correlations to the redox state of P700 under various conditions were examined. PTR monitors modulated light conversion to heat by s...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Malkin S,Schreiber U,Jansen M,Canaani O,Shalgi E,Cahen D

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygenic photosynthesis requires chlorophyll (Chl) for the absorption of light energy, and charge separation in the reaction center of photosystem I and II, to feed electrons into the photosynthetic electron transfer chain. Chl is bound to different Chl-binding proteins assembled in the core complexes of the two photo...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Wang P,Grimm B

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosystem II (PSII) catalyzes the oxidation of water to O2 at the manganese-containing, oxygen-evolving complex (OEC). Photoexcitation of PSII results in the oxidation of the OEC; four sequential oxidation reactions are required for the generation and release of molecular oxygen. Therefore, with flash illumination, ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Cooper IB,Barry BA

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy probes the vibrational properties of amino acids and cofactors, which are sensitive to minute structural changes. The lack of specificity of this technique, on the one hand, permits us to probe directly the vibrational properties of almost all the cofactors, amino acid si...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Berthomieu C,Hienerwadel R

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When excited by ultraviolet radiation, leaves of a great number of species of higher plants exhibit emission of blue fluorescence, comparable in intensity to the red emission of chlorophyll. The fluorescence decay of the blue emission of spinach leaves recorded by single photon counting techniques is decomposed into e...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Goulas Y,Moya I,Schmuck G

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior to the 1960s, the model for the molecular structure of cell membranes consisted of a lipid bilayer held in place by a thin film of electrostatically-associated protein stretched over the bilayer surface: (the Danielli-Davson-Robertson "unit membrane" model). Andrew Benson, an expert in the lipids of chloroplast ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Anderson JM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current status of research on the structure, regulation, mechanism and importance of Rubisco activase is reviewed. The activase is now recognized to be a member of the AAA(+) family, whose members participate in macromolecular complexes that perform diverse chaperone-like functions. The conserved nucleotide-bindin...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Portis AR Jr

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new binding site for anions which inhibit the water oxidizing complex (WOC) of Photosystem II in spinach has been identified. Anions which bind to this site inhibit the flash-induced S2/S0 catalase reaction (2H2O2→2H2O+O2) of the WOC by displacing hydrogen peroxide. Using a mass spectrometer and gas permeable membra...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Mano J,Kawamoto K,Dismukes GC,Asada K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant terpenoids are among the most diverse group of naturally-occurring organic compounds known, and several are used in contemporary consumer products. Terpene synthase enzymes catalyze complex rearrangements of carbon skeleton precursors to yield thousands of unique chemical structures that range in size from the s...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Davies FK,Jinkerson RE,Posewitz MC

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This minireview summarizes the current state of knowledge concerning the role of Cl(-) in the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) of photosystem II (PSII). The model that proposes that Cl(-) is a Mn ligand is discussed in light of more recent work. Studies of Cl(-) specificity, stoichiometry, kinetics, and retention by extr...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Popelková H,Yocum CF

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:Bioenergetic properties of thylakoids from plants submitted to a water stress stress (watering stopped for 6-15 days) have been measured in two lupin genotypes characterized as resistant or susceptible to drought. This energy coupling was assessed by flow-force relationships relating the phosphorylation rate to the ma...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Meyer S,Phung Nhu Hung S,Trémolières A,de Kouchkovsky Y

更新日期：1992-05-01 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：:We have constructed a mutant Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942, termed R2HECAT, in which the entire phycobilisome rod operon has been deleted. In the whole cell absorption spectra of R2HECAT, the peak corresponding to phycocyanin (PC), λmax≈620 nm, could not be detected. However, a single pigment-protein fraction with λmax=6...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Bhalerao RP,Gillbro T,Gustafsson P

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequences of the genes coding for the subunits of the Photosystem I (PS I) core, PsaA and PsaB were determined for the marine prokaryotic oxyphototrophs Prochlorococcus sp. MED4 (CCMP1378), P. marinus SS120 (CCMP1375) and Synechococcus sp. WH7803. Divergence of these sequences from those of both freshwa...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： van der Staay GW,Moon-van der Staay SY,Garczarek L,Partensky F

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light energy harvested by the pigments in Photosystem I (PSI) is used for charge separation in the reaction center (RC), after which the positive charge resides on a special chlorophyll dimer called P700. In studies on the PSI trapping kinetics, P700(+) is usually chemically reduced to re-open the RCs. So far, the inf...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Wientjes E,Croce R

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystallization of a given protein is a hard task being even more complicated when the protein shows a hydrophobic behavior. In the case of photosynthetic proteins, the difficulty of the experiments increased due to the high light sensitivity. Aqueous solutions of photosystem II core complex (OEC PSII) of Pisum sa...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Kutá Smatanová I,Gavira JA,Rezácová P,Vácha F,García-Ruiz JM

更新日期：2006-12-01 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 green algal species, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Scenedesmus obliquus, exhibited a relative maximum during the decay of luminescence, when adapted to low CO2 conditions that was not observed in high CO2 adapted cells.From the kinetics of transient changes in the level of dark fluorescence, after illumination and...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Sundblad LG,Samuelsson G,Wigge B,Gardeström P

更新日期：1990-03-01 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

abstract：:Chlorophyll f is a photosynthetic pigment that was discovered in 2010. In this study, we present investigations on spectral and dynamic characteristics of singlet-excited and triplet states of Chl f with the application of ultrafast time-resolved absorption and fluorescence spectroscopies. The pigment was studied at r...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Niedzwiedzki DM,Liu H,Chen M,Blankenship RE

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:Heliobacteria contain Type I reaction centers (RCs) and a homodimeric core, but unlike green sulfur bacteria, they do not contain an extended antenna system. Given their simplicity, the heliobacterial RC (HbRC) should be ideal for the study of a prototypical homodimeric RC. However, there exist enormous gaps in our kn...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Heinnickel M,Golbeck JH

更新日期：2007-04-01 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