Abbreviations: DCMU, 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1, 1-dimethylurea 相似文献
1. 1. Spinach chloroplasts were stored in the dark for at least 1 h, rapidly cooled to −40 °C, and illuminated with continuous light or short saturating flashes. In agreement with the measurements of Joliot and Joliot, chloroplasts that had been preilluminated with one or two flashes just before cooling showed a less efficient increase in the yield of chlorophyll a fluorescence upon illumination at −40 °C than dark-adapted chloroplasts. The effect disappeared below −150 °C, but reappeared again upon warming to −40 °C. Little effect was seen at room temperature in the presence of 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (DCMU), added after the preillumination.
2. 2. Light-induced absorbance difference spectra at −40 °C in the region 500–560 nm indicated the participation of two components, the socalled 518-nm change (P518) and C-550. After preillumination with two flashes the absorbance change at 518 nm was smaller, and almost no C-550 was observed. After four flashes, the bands of C-550 were clearly visible again.
3. 3. The fluorescence increase and the absorbance change at 518 nm showed the same type of flash pattern with a minimum after the second and a maximum at the fourth flash. In the presence of 100 μM hydroxylamine, the fluorescence response was low after the fourth and high again after the sixth flash, which confirmed the hypothesis that the flash effect was related to the so-called S-state of the electron transport pathway from water to Photosystem 2.
4. 4. The kinetics of the light-induced absorbance changes were the same at each wavelength, and, apart from the size of the deflection, they were independent of preillumination. Flash experiments indicated that the absorbance changes were a one-quantum reaction. This was also true for the fluorescence increase in dark-adapted chloroplasts, but with preilluminated chloroplasts several flashes were needed to approximately saturate the fluorescence yield.
5. 5. The results are discussed in terms of a mechanism involving two electron donors and two electron acceptors for System 2 of photosynthesis.
At temperatures below −100 °C, the primary reaction of Photosystem II is irreversible. However, at temperatures between −100 and −20 °C a back reaction that is insensitive to 3-(3′,4′-dichlorophenyl)-1,1′-dimethylurea (DCMU) occurs between P680+ and the reduced acceptor.
The amount of reduced acceptor and P680+ present under steady-state illumination at temperatures between −100 and −20 °C is small unless high light intensity is used to overcome the competing back reaction. The amount of reduced acceptor present at low light intensity can be increased by adjusting the oxidation-reduction potential so that P680+ is reduced by a secondary electron donor (cytochrome b559) before P680+ can reoxidize the reduced primary acceptor. The photooxidation of cytochrome b559 and the accompanying photoreduction of C-550 are inhibited by DCMU. The inhibition of C-550 photoreduction by DCMU, the dependence of P680 photooxidation and C-550 photoreduction on light intensity, and the effect of the availability of reduced cytochrome b559 on C-550 photoreduction are unique to the temperature range where the Photosystem II primary reaction is reversible and are not observed at lower temperatures. 相似文献
1. (1) In dark-adapted chloroplasts (i.e. in States S0+S1 according to Kok, B., Forbush, B. and McGloin, M. (1970) Photochem. Photobiol. 11, 457–475), Q, reduced by a flash at low temperature, is reoxidized by a secondary acceptor and the positive charge is stabilized on the Photosystem II donor Z. Although this reaction is strongly temperature dependent, it still occurs very slowly at −60°C.
2. (2) When chloroplasts are placed in the S2+S3 states by a two-flash preillumination at room temperature, the reoxidation of Q− after a flash at low temperature is mainly due to a temperature-independent back reaction which occurs with non-exponential kinetics.
3. (3) Long continuous illumination of a frozen sample at −30°C causes 6–7 reducing equivalents to be transferred to the pool. Thus, a sufficient number of oxidizing equivalents should have been generated to produce at least one O2 molecule.
4. (4) A study of the back reaction in the presence of 3(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (DCMU) shows the superposition of two distinct non-exponential reactions one temperature dependent, the other temperature independent.
Abbreviations: DCMU; 3(3; 4-dichlorophenyl)-1; 1-dimethylurea 相似文献
The rate of triplet-triplet energy transfer from chlorophyll a to carotenoids has been derived from the rise time of the absorption change at 515 nm, in chloroplasts and in several light-harvesting pigment-protein complexes. In all cases the rate is very high, around 8 · 107 s−1 at 294 K. It is about 2–3 times slower at 5 K. The transitory formation of chlorophyll triplet has been verified in two pigment-protein complexes, at 5 K. 相似文献
2. The P+ reduction time for at least an appreciable part of the reaction centers was found to be longer after the second and subsequent flashes. In the first 5 flashes an oscillation was observed. Under steady state conditions, with a pulse separation of 3 s, a reduction time for P+ of about 400 ns for all reaction centers gave the best correspondence between computed and experimental fluorescence kinetics. 相似文献
2. Differences in the flurescence yield of chlorophyll a in flowing and stationary suspensions of untreated chloroplasts and of the large fragments are indicative of light-induced photoreduction of the quencher Q of chlorophyll a, associated with pigment System 2 (chlorophyll a2). The relatively low constant fluorescence yield of chlorophyll a in the small fragments indicates the absence of fluorescent chlorophyll a2 from these fragments and suggests that the low fluorescence is due to chlorophyll a, associated with pigmen System 1 (chlorophyll a1). The ratio of the fluorescence yields of chlorophyll a1 and chlorophyll a2 is 0.45:1. In the large particles the concentration ratio of pigment System 1 and System 2 is 1:3.
3. The efficiencies of quanta absorbed at 673, 683 and 705 nm for NADP+ reduction and P 700 oxidation in untreated chloroplasts and chloroplast fragments indicate that digitonin treatment results in a separation of System 2 from System 1 in the small fragments. Sonication does not cause such a separation. Under the conditions used P 700 oxidation and NADP+ reduction in the small fragments separated after digitonin treatment, occurred with maximal efficiency of 0.7 to 1.0 and 0.7, respectively.
4. The constancy of the fluorescence yield of chlorophyll a1 in the small fragments, under conditions at which P 700 is oxidized and NADP+ is reduced, is interpreted as evidence either for the hypothesis that the fluorescence of chlorophyll a1 is controlled by the redox state of the primary photoreductant XH, or alternatively for the hypothesis that energy transfer from fluorescent chlorophyll a1 to P 700 goes via an intrinsically weak fluorescent, still unknown, chlorophyll-like pigment.
5. The low-temperature emission band around 730 nm is argued not to be due to excitation by System 1 only; the relatively large half width of the band, as compared to the emission bands at 683 and 696 nm, suggests that it is possibly due to overlapping emission bands of different pigments. 相似文献
The addition of NaCl to the chloroplast suspension produced a 40–80% increase in fluorescence yield measured at 684 nm at room temperature. The fluorescence increase was completed about 5 min after the addition. The effect saturated at 100 mM NaCl. Low-temperature fluorescence spectra showed that NaCl increased the yields of two fluorescence bands of pigment system II at 684 and 695 nm but decreased that of pigment system I at 735 nm. Similar effects on chlorophyll a fluorescence at room and at low temperatures were obtained with NaBr, NaNO3, Na2SO4, LiCl, KCl, RbCl, CsCl, NH4Cl and CH3NH3Cl.
NaCl suppressed the quantum efficiency of NADP+ reduction supported by the ascorbate-2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol (DCIP) couple as an electron donor system in the presence of 3-(3′,4′-chlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (DCMU). On the other hand, NaCl only slightly enhanced the quantum yield of photoreaction II measured by the Hill reaction with DCIP.
It is concluded that the monovalent cations tested suppressed the excitation transfer from pigment system II to pigment system I; the effects were the same as those of alkaline earth metals and Mn2+ (refs. 1, 2). 相似文献
1. 1. The kinetics of chlorophyll a1 exhibits a pronounced lag phase of 2–3 ms at the onset of reduction as would be expected for the final product of consecutive reactions. Because the oxidation of the plastoquinone pool is the rate-limiting step for the electron transport between the two light reactions, the lag indicates the maximal electron transfer time over all preceding reactions after light Reaction II.
2. 2. The observation that the lag phase decreases with decreasing pH is evidence of an electron transfer step coupled to a proton uptake reaction.
3. 3. Protonation of X-320 after reduction in the flash is excluded because a slight increase of the decay time is found at decreasing pH values.
4. 4. The time course of plastohydroquinone formation is deduced from the first derivative of the reduction kinetics of chlorophyll a1. This approach covers those plastohydroquinone molecules being available to the electron carriers of System I via the rate-limiting step. Direct measurements of absorbance changes would not allow to discriminate between these and functionally different plastohydroquinone molecules.
5. 5. The derived time course of plastohydroquinone at different pH gives evidence for an additional electron transfer step with a half time of about 1 ms following the proton uptake and preceding the rate-limiting step. It is tentatively attributed to the diffusion of neutral plastohydroquinone across the hydrophobic core of the thylakoid membrane.
6. 6. The lower limit of the rate constant for proton uptake by an electron carrier, consistent with the lag of chlorophyll a1 reduction, is estimated as > 1011 M−1 · s−1. The value is higher than that of the fastest diffusion controlled protonations of organic molecules in solution.
Possible mechanisms of linear electron transport between light Reaction II and the rate-limiting oxidation of neutral plastohydroquinone are thoroughly discussed. 相似文献
The results can be explained by the following hypotheses: (a) The primary donor of Photosystem II in its oxidized state, P+, is a fluorescence quencher. (b) Hydroxylamine prevents the secondary electron donor Z from reducing the oxidized reaction center pigment P+ rapidly. This inhibition is dependent on hydroxylamine concentration and is complete at a concentration of 10−2 M. (c) A second donor (not transporting electrons from water) transfers electrons to P+ with a half time of roughly 25 μs. 相似文献
For Cyanidium caldarium the zero fluorescence yield Ф0 and its quenching by dinitrobenzene were found to be much smaller than the corresponding quantities for C. vulgaris. Nevertheless, our measurements on C. caldarium could be interpreted by the assumption that the essential properties (rate constants, dinitrobenzene quenching) of PS II are the same for these two species belonging to such widely different groups.
2. The measured dinitrobenzene concentrations required for half-quenching in vivo and other observations are explained by (non-rate-limiting) energy transfer between the chlorophyll a molecules of PS II and by the assumptions that dinitrobenzene is approximately distributed at random in the membrane and does not diffuse during excitation.
3. The fluorescence kinetics of C. vulgaris during a 350 ns laser flash of variable intensity could be simulated on a computer using the matrix model. From the observed fluorescence quenching by the carotenoid triplet (CT) and the measurement of the number of CT per reaction center via difference absorption spectroscopy, the rate constant for quenching of CT is calculated to be kT = 3.3 · 1011 s−1 which is almost equal to the rate constant of trapping by an open reaction center (Duysens, L.N.M. (1979) CIBA Foundation Symposium 61 (New Series), pp. 323–340).
4. The fluorescence quenching by CT in non-treated spinach chloroplasts after a 500 ns laser flash (Breton, J., Geacintov, N.E. and Swenberg, C.E. (1979) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 548, 616–635) could be explained within the framework of the matrix model when the value for kT is used as given in point 3.
5. The observations mentioned under point 1 indicate that the fluorescence yield Ф0 for centers in trapping state P Q is probably for a fraction exceeding 0.8 emitted by PS II. 相似文献
At the maximum laser intensities, the carotenoid triplet concentration is about one per 100 chlorophyll molecules. The maximum chlorophyll ion concentration generated by the laser pulses was estimated to be below 0.8 ions/100 chlorophyll molecules. None of the observations described here were altered when a picosecond pulse laser train was substituted for the microsecond pulse.
A simple kinetic model describing the generation of singlets and triplets (by intersystem crossing), and their subsequent interaction leading to fluorescence quenching, accounts well for the observations. The two coupled differential equations describing the time dependent evolution of singlet and triplet excited states are solved numerically. Using a singlet-triplet bimolecular rate constant of γst = 10−8 cm3 · s−1, the following observations can be accounted for: (1) the rapid initial drop in Ф and its subsequent levelling off with increasing time during the laser pulse, (2) the buildup of the triplets during the pulse, and (3) the integrated yield of triplets per pulse as a function of the energy of the flash. 相似文献
2. Hydrated electrons do not readily reduce the heme of cytochrome c oxidase. This observation supports our previous conclusion that heme a is not directly exposed to the solvent.
3. In a mixture of cytochrome c and cytochrome c oxidase, cytochrome c is first reduced by hydrated electrons (k = 4 · 1010 M−1 · s−1 at 22 °C and pH 7.2) after which it transfers electrons to cytochrome c oxidase with a rate constant of 6 · 107 M−1 · s−1 at 22 °C and pH 7.2.
4. It was found that two equivalents of cytochrome c are oxidized initially per equivalent of heme a reduced, showing that one electron is accepted by a second electron acceptor, probably one of the copper atoms of cytochrome c oxidase.
5. After the initial reduction, redistribution of electrons takes place until an equilibrium is reached similar to that found in redox experiments of Tiesjema, R. H., Muijsers, A. O. and Van Gelder, B. F. (1973) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 305, 19–28. 相似文献
1. 1. Three distinct components having decay half times of approx. 10, 35 and 200 μsec could be detected.
2. 2. The yields of both the 35- and 200-μsec delayed luminescence components oscillate with a period of four, in phase with oscillations of O2 yield; no large oscillations of fluorescence paralleling those of luminescence or O2 were observed.
3. 3. 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (DCMU) abolished the 10- and 200-μsec components and the oscillatory behavior of the 35-μsec component.
4. 4. The 35- and 200-μsec components are not directly influenced by System I.
The DCMU isolated 35-μsec component showed the following properties:
1. 1. The decay is first order and the emission spectrum is essentially identical to that of chloroplast fluorescence;
2. 2. The yield saturates with a total emission of about 10-4 quanta/trap.
3. 3. The temperature dependence indicates an activation energy of about 250 mV for the yield and 200 mV for the decay.
4. 4. Maximal emission was obtained when Q, the acceptor of System II, was oxidized prior to the flash.
The results are discussed in terms of possible mechanisms concerning the production and behavior of the luminescence. 相似文献
2. According to Den Haan et al. ((1974) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 368, 409–421), hydroxylamine destroys the secondary donor responsible for the fast reduction of Chl+. In the presence of 3 mM hydroxylamine, only the secondary donor D is functional and a flash induces mainly a single hit process.
3. The saturation curves for the fast and the slow rises have been studied in the presence of 3(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea for a second actinic flash given 2.5 s after a first saturating one. The large decrease in the half-saturating energy indicates the existence of efficient energy transfer occuring between photosynthetic units.
4. Two alternate hypotheses are discussed (a) in which D is an auxiliary donor and (b) in which D is included in the main electron transfer chain. 相似文献