abstract：:The relationship between the redox state of P700, the primary donor of PS I, monitored using absorbance changes at 830 nm and photochemical energy storage in PS I reaction centers assayed with the photoacoustic method (PA) was studied in isolated PS I submembrane particles aspirated onto nitrocellulose filters. Severa...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Bukhov NG,Rajagopal S,Carpentier R

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of an ongoing investigation into the effects of long-term UV-B radiation exposure on the growth and morphology of woody perennials, the gas exchange and photosynthesis of five common deciduous tree species were measured. All five tree species had been exposed to UV-B radiation for 5 years, in the field, at an ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Keiller DR,Holmes MG

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most chloroplasts undergo changes in composition, function and structure in response to growth irradiance. However, Tradescantia albiflora, a facultative shade plant, is unable to modulate its light-harvesting components and has the same Chl a/Chl b ratios and number of functional PS II and PS I reaction centres on a ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Anderson JM,Soon Chow W,Park YI,Franklin LA,Robinson SP,van Hasselt PR

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Redox dependent protein phosphorylation in chloroplast thylakoids regulates distribution of excitation energy between the two photosystems of photosynthesis, PS I and PS II. Several thylakoid phosphoproteins are known to be phosphorylated on N-terminal threonine residues exposed to the chloroplast stroma. Phosphorylat...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Forsberg J,Allen JF

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protocol for the isolation of functional thylakoids from Arabidopsis thaliana leaves was developed. The critical factor in obtaining active, coupled and stable preparation is the inclusion of EDTA and EGTA in the grinding buffer. Preparations were characterized with respect to the whole or partial electron transport...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Casazza AP,Tarantino D,Soave C

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Illumination of the dark-incubated cells of Synechocystis PCC6803 caused recovery of both respiratory activity of oxygen uptake and PS I-cyclic electron flow, which was monitored by the dark reduction of P700(+) in the presence of DCMU after a 50 ms pulse light (MT) under background far-red light, but the effects were...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Mi H,Deng Y,Tanaka Y,Hibino T,Takabe T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1 is an alpha-3 purple nonsulfur eubacterium with an extensive metabolic repertoire. Under anaerobic conditions, it is able to grow by photosynthesis, respiration and fermentation. Photosynthesis may be photoheterotrophic using organic compounds as both a carbon and a reducing source, or ph...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Mackenzie C,Choudhary M,Larimer FW,Predki PF,Stilwagen S,Armitage JP,Barber RD,Donohue TJ,Hosler JP,Newman JE,Shapleigh JP,Sockett RE,Zeilstra-Ryalls J,Kaplan S

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:In this communication, we report our progress on the development of low-frequency Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopic techniques to study metal-substrate and metal-ligand vibrational modes in the Photosystem II/oxygen-evolving complex (PS II/OEC). This information will provide important structural and mech...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Chu HA,Gardner MT,Hillier W,Babcock GT

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:In this Minireview, we discuss a number of issues on the primary photosynthetic reactions of the green plant Photosystem II. We discuss the origin of the 683 and 679 nm absorption bands of the PS II RC complex and suggest that these forms may reflect the single-site spectrum with dominant contributions from the zero-p...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Dekker JP,Van Grondelle R

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study confirmed earlier conclusions regarding differential ozone (O(3)) tolerances of two soybean cultivars, Essex and Forrest, and evaluated antioxidant enzyme activities of these two varieties based on their performance under environmentally relevant, elevated O(3) conditions. The experiment was conducte...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Chernikova T,Robinson JM,Lee EH,Mulchi CL

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chloroplast photo-oxidation and the expression of the Cab gene Lhcb1, encoding the Lhcb1 light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-protein of PS II, have been studied in leaf cells of maize treated with the two bleaching herbicides norflurazon and amitrole and of the two carotenoid-free mutants vp9 and vp2 grown under high...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Rocca NL,Barbato R,Vecchia FD,Rascio N

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The absorption spectra of two light harvesting complexes from higher plants, CP29 and LHC II, have been analysed in the Soret region in order to obtain a description in terms of the absorption spectra of the individual pigments. This information is of great practical use when applying spectroscopic techniques to the s...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Croce R,Cinque G,Holzwarth AR,Bassi R

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed analysis of the periplasmic electron carriers of the photosynthetic bacterium Ectothiorhodospira sp. has been performed. Two low mid-point redox potential electron carriers, cytochrome c' and cytochrome c, are detected. A high potential iron-sulfur protein is the only high mid-point redox potential electron...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Buche A,Picorel R,Moulis JM,Verméglio A

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:The effect of acetate metabolism on the light energy distribution between the two photosystems, on the PS II/PS I stoichiometry and on the expression of psbA and psbB and psaA genes was investigated in the green alga, Chlamydobotrys stellata during autotrophic (CO(2)), mixotrophic (CO(2) plus acetate) and photoheterot...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Kovács L,Wiessner W,Kis M,Nagy F,Mende D,Demeter S

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:Cells of the green alga Dunaliella tertiolecta grown in a light/dark cycle were exposed to high light for about 15 min. In light, energy-dependent quenching reduced fluorescence emission and decreased PS II efficiency. Within 3 minutes after darkening fluorescence quenching largely relaxed. However, PS II fluorescence...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Casper-Lindley C,Björkman O

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In studies on photosynthetic systems it is common practice to interpret the results of time-resolved fluorescence experiments on the basis of compartmental, or target, models. Each compartment represents a group of molecules with similar fluorescence characteristics. In cases of practical interest, the members of each...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Holcomb CT,Knox RS

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Application of target theory to the photoinactivation of Photosystem II in pea leaf discs (Park et al. 1995, 1996a,b) reveals that there is a critical light dosage below which there is complete photoprotection and above which there is photoinactivation (i.e a light-induced loss of oxygen flash yield). The critical dos...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Sinclair J,Park YI,Chow WS,Anderson JM

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome of the purple non-sulphur photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas acidophila has been found to contain multiple copies of puc light-harvesting (LH2) peripheral antenna complex genes. Three wild-type isolates each exhibiting dissimilar peripheral antenna complex phenotypes in response to growth at reduced ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Gardiner AT,Mackenzie RC,Barrett SJ,Kaiser K,Cogdell RJ

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modified forms of the D1 protein with deletions in lumen-exposed regions, were constructed in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6803 using site-directed mutagenesis. Integration and stability of the mutated D1 proteins in the thylakoid membrane were studied by immunoblot and pulse-chase analyses. It was found that in Δ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Salih G,Wiklund R,Tyystjärvi T,Mäenpää P,Gerez C,Jansson C

更新日期：1996-08-01 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

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：:Bill Arnold's concept of photosynthesis as a solid state, as opposed to solution, phenomenon led him to an amazing series of fundamental discoveries. ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Mauzerall D

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Around 1960 experiments of Arnold and Clayton, Chance and Nishimura and Calvin and coworkers demonstrated that the primary photosynthetic electron transfer processes are not abolished by cooling to cryogenic temperatures. After a brief historical introduction, this review discusses some aspects of electron transfer in...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Aartsma TJ,Amesz J

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of desiccation and rehydration on the function of Photosystem II has been studied in the desiccation tolerant lichen Cladonia convoluta by thermoluminescence. We have shown that in functional fully hydrated thalli thermoluminescence signals can be observed from the recombination of the S2(3)QB (-) (B band),...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Sass L,Csintalan Z,Tuba Z,Vass I

更新日期：1996-05-01 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：: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：:Photoinhibition of the light-induced Photosystem I (PS I) electron transfer activity from the reduced dichlorophenol indophenol to methyl viologen was studied. PS I preparations with Chl/P700 ratios of about 180 (PS I-180), 100 (PS I-100) and 40 (PS I(HA)-40) were isolated from spinach thylakoid membranes by the treat...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Baba K,Itoh S,Hastings G,Hoshina S

更新日期：1996-02-01 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：:Minimal photosynthetic catalytic F1(αβ) core complexes, containing equimolar ratios of the α and β subunits, were isolated from membrane-bound spinach chloroplast CF1 and Rhodospirillum rubrum chromatophore RrF1. A CF1-α3β3 hexamer and RrF1-α1β1 dimer, which were purified from the respective F1(αβ) complexes, exhibit ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Gromet-Elhanan Z,Sokolov M

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent magnetic-resonance work on YŻ suggests that this species exhibits considerable motional flexibility in its functional site and that its phenol oxygen is not involved in a well-ordered hydrogen-bond interaction (Tang et al., submitted; Tommos et al., in press). Both of these observations are inconsistent with a ...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Hoganson CW,Lydakis-Simantiris N,Tang XS,Tommos C,Warncke K,Babcock GT,Diner BA,McCracken J,Styring S

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The psaA and psaB genes of the chloroplast genome in oxygenic photosynthetic organisms code for the major peptides of the Photosystem 1 reaction center. A heterodimer of the two polypeptides PsaA and PsaB is thought to bind the reaction center chlorophyll, P700, and the early electron acceptors A0, A1 and Fe-SX. Fe-SX...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Hallahan BJ,Purton S,Ivison A,Wright D,Evans MC

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the mechanistic basis for the movement of promiscuous nucleic acids across cell membranes. To address this problem we sought conditions that would permit the entry of plasmid DNA into isolated, intact pea chloroplasts. DNA uptake did not occur normally, but was induced by hypotonic treatments, by...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Cerutti H,Jagendorf A

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetic and spectroscopic properties of the secondary electron acceptor A1 were determined by flash absorption spectroscopy at room and cryogenic temperatures in a Photosystem I (PS I) core devoid of the iron-sulfur clusters FX, FB and FA. It was shown earlier (Warren, P.V., Golbeck, J.H. and Warden, J.T. (1993) B...

journal_title：Photosynthesis research

authors： Brettel K,Golbeck JH

更新日期：1995-09-01 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：: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：: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