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：:The chloroplast ATP synthase synthesizes ATP from ADP and free phosphate coupled by the electrochemical potential across the thylakoid membrane in the light. The light-dependent regulation of ATP synthase activity is carried out in part through redox modulation of a cysteine disulfide bridge in CF1 gamma-subunit. In o...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Wu G,Ort DR

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants, chlorophylls (chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b) are the most abundant tetrapyrrole molecules and are essential for photosynthesis. The first committed step of chlorophyll biosynthesis is the insertion of Mg(2+) into protoporphyrin IX, and thus subsequent steps of the biosynthesis are called the Mg branch. As...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Masuda T

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：:Six chlorophyll-protein complexes are isolated from thylakoid membranes of Bryopsis corticulans by dodecyl-beta-D: -maltoside polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Unlike that of higher plants, the 77 K fluorescence emission spectrum of the CP1 band, the PSI core complexes of B. corticulans, presents two peaks, one at 6...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Chen G,Niu X,Chen X,Li L,Kuang T,Li S

更新日期：2008-04-01 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

abstract：:The cyanobacterial small CAB-like proteins (SCPs) are one-helix proteins with compelling similarity to the first and third transmembrane helix of proteins belonging to the CAB family of light-harvesting complex proteins in plants. The SCP proteins are transiently expressed at high light intensity and other stress cond...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Kufryk G,Hernandez-Prieto MA,Kieselbach T,Miranda H,Vermaas W,Funk C

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peridinin-chlorophyll-protein (PCP), containing differently absorbing chlorophyll derivatives, are good models with which to study energy transfer among monomeric chlorophylls (Chls) by both bulk and single-molecule spectroscopy. They can be obtained by reconstituting the N-terminal domain of the protein (N-PCP) with ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Brotosudarmo TH,Mackowski S,Hofmann E,Hiller RG,Bräuchle C,Scheer H

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorosomes of green photosynthetic bacterium Chlorobium tepidum contain aggregates of bacteriochlorophyll c (BChl c) with carotenoids and isoprenoid quinones. BChl aggregates with very similar optical properties can be prepared also in vitro either in non-polar solvents or in aqueous buffers with addition of lipids a...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Alster J,Zupcanova A,Vacha F,Psencik J

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:The potential role of foliar carbon export features in the acclimation of photosynthetic capacity to differences and changes in light environment was evaluated. These features included apoplastic vs. symplastic phloem loading, density of loading veins, plasmodesmatal frequency in intermediary cells, and the ratio of l...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Adams WW 3rd,Watson AM,Mueh KE,Amiard V,Turgeon R,Ebbert V,Logan BA,Combs AF,Demmig-Adams B

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorophyll (Chl) b serves an essential function in accumulation of light-harvesting complexes (LHCs) in plants. In this article, this role of Chl b is explored by considering the properties of Chls and the ligands with which they interact in the complexes. The overall properties of the Chls, not only their spectral f...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Hoober JK,Eggink LL,Chen M

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxidation kinetics under far-red light (FRL) of photosystem I (PSI) high potential donors P700, plastocyanin (PC), and cytochrome f (Cyt f) were investigated in sunflower leaves with the help of a new high-sensitivity photometer at 810 nm. The slopes of the 810 nm signal were measured immediately before and after ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Talts E,Oja V,Rämma H,Rasulov B,Anijalg A,Laisk A

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate genotypic variation, we measured leaf photosynthetic rate (Pn) and its associated factors for the rice diversity research set of germplasm (RDRS) selected from the Genebank in National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS). Pn showed large genotypic variation from 11.9 to 32.1 micromol m(-2 ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Kanemura T,Homma K,Ohsumi A,Shiraiwa T,Horie T

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：: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：:Plants are exposed to a temporally and spatially heterogeneous environment, and photosynthesis is well adapted to these fluctuations. Understanding of the complex, non-linear dynamics of photosynthesis in fluctuating light requires novel-modeling approaches that involve not only the primary light and dark biochemical ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Nedbal L,Cervený J,Rascher U,Schmidt H

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylglycerol (PG), containing the unique fatty acid Delta3, trans-16:1-hexadecenoic acid, is a minor but ubiquitous lipid component of thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts and cyanobacteria. We investigated its role in electron transfers and structural organization of Photosystem II (PSII) by treating Arabidops...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Kim EH,Razeghifard R,Anderson JM,Chow WS

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：: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：:The localization of isoprenoid lipids in chloroplasts, the accumulation of particular isoprenoids under high irradiance conditions, and channelling of photosynthetically fixed carbon into plastidic thylakoid isoprenoids, volatile isoprenoids, and cytosolic sterols are reviewed. During leaf and chloroplast development ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Lichtenthaler HK

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：: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：: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：:Three Chl-protein complexes were isolated from thylakoid membranes of Bryopsis maxima and Ulva pertusa, marine green algae that inhabit the intertidal zone of the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of Japan by dodecyl-beta-D-maltoside polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The slowest-moving fractions showed low Chl a/b...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Yamazaki JY,Kozu A,Fukunaga Y

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen may enhance CO2-saturated photosynthesis in intact leaves, which display the Warburg effect when illuminated at the current atmospheric level of CO2 and O2, of about 350 microl l(-1) and 21%, respectively. The magnitude of the stimulation depends on irradiance. The K(M)(O2) of the stimulation is 128 microM (10....

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Viil J,Ivanova H,Pärnik T

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：:The excitation energy transfer between carotenoid and chlorophyll (Chl) in the cytochrome b ( 6 ) f complex from Bryopsis corticulans (B. corticulans), in which the carotenoid is 9-cis-alpha-carotene, was investigated by means of fluorescence excitation and sub-microsecond time-resolved absorption spectroscopies. The ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Li BX,Zuo P,Chen XB,Li LB,Zhang JP,Zhang JP,Kuang TY

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PAM-2000 portable chlorophyll fluorometer represents one of the first commercially available instruments utilizing the Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM) measurement principle, and has become a widely used platform for measuring chlorophyll fluorescence in a wide range of study systems. In this paper, we describe a ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Gray DW,Cardon ZG,Lewis LA

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：:This review focuses on our recent efforts in synthetic ruthenium-tyrosine-manganese chemistry mimicking the donor side reactions of Photosystem II. Tyrosine and tryptophan residues were linked to ruthenium photosensitizers, which resulted in model complexes for proton-coupled electron transfer from amino acids. A new ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Lomoth R,Magnuson A,Sjödin M,Huang P,Styring S,Hammarström L

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Chlorosomes, the light-harvesting apparatus of green bacteria, are a unique antenna system, in which pigments are organized in aggregates rather than associated with proteins. Isolated chlorosomes from the green sulphur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum contain 10 surface-exposed proteins. Treatment of chlorosomes from Chl...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Milks KJ,Danielsen M,Persson S,Jensen ON,Cox RP,Miller M

更新日期：2005-11-01 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：:The functional peculiarities and responses of the photosynthetic system in the flowering homoiochlorophyllous desiccation-tolerant (HDT) Haberlea rhodopensis and the non-desiccation-tolerant spinach were compared during desiccation and rehydration. Increasing rate of water loss clearly modifies the kinetic parameters ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Georgieva K,Maslenkova L,Peeva V,Markovska Y,Stefanov D,Tuba Z

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The light response curves of the acceptor and donor side mechanisms of photoinhibition of Photosystem II were calculated, using Arabidopsis as a model organism. Acceptor-side photoinhibition was modelled as double reduction of QA, noting that non-photochemical quenching has the same effect on the quantum yield of QA d...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Tyystjärvi E,Hakala M,Sarvikas P

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the wavelength dependence of homogeneous holewidths of persistent spectral holes burnt in O2-evolving Photosystem II core complexes isolated from spinach, in the temperature range 2.5-8 K. The data supports the assignment that those chlorophylls which undergo persistent spectral hole-burning are specific CP...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Hughes JL,Krausz E,Smith PJ,Pace RJ,Riesen H

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00