Abbreviations: Rib-5-P, ribose 5-phosphate; Ribul-5-P, ribulose 5-phosphate; Ribul-1,5-P2, ribulose 1,5-diphosphate; HEPES, N-2-hydroxyethylpiperazine-N′-2-ethanesulfonic acid; MES, 2-(N-morpholino)ethanesulfonic acid 相似文献
In accordance with the results of our previous study concerning the effects of Mg2+ on the excitation transfer in the chloroplasts, it was concluded that ions of alkaline earths and manganese suppress the excitation transfer from bulk chlorophylla of pigment system II to that of pigment system I. 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
(2) A light dependent increase in the Mg2+ content of the stroma was detected when chloroplasts were subjected to osmotic shock, amounting to 26 nmol/mg chlorophyll. Furthermore, a rapid and reversible light-dependent efflux of Mg2+ has been observed in intact chloroplasts when the divalent cation ionophore A 23 187 was added, indicating a light-dependent transfer of about 60 nmol of Mg2+ per mg chlorophyll from the thylakoid membranes to the stroma.
(3) CO2 fixation, but not phosphoglycerate reduction, could be completely inhibited when A 23 187 was added to intact chloroplasts in the absence of external Mg2+. If Mg2+ was then added to the medium, CO2 fixation was restored. Half of the maximal restoration was achieved with about 0.2 mM Mg2+, which is calculated to reflect a Mg2+ concentration in the stroma of 1.2 mM. The further addition of Ca2+ strongly inhibits CO2 fixation.
(4) The results suggest that illumination of intact chloroplasts causes an increase in the Mg2+ concentration of 1–3 mM in the stroma. Compared to the total Mg2+ content of chloroplasts, this increase is very low, but it appears to be high enough to have a possible function in the light regulation of CO2 fixation. 相似文献
Terms, “State I” and “State II” are used to describe the state of excitation transfer. In the State I a lesser amount of excitation energy is delivered in Pigment System I and greater to Pigment System II than in the State II. The conversion of the states is achieved by the selective illumination of pigment systems.
The conversion from the State I toward the State II occurred under Light II (light absorbed by Pigment System II) with a half time of about 10 sec, and it saturated at a light intensity of less than 1000 ergs×cm−2×sec−1. The reverse conversion occurred under Light I (light absorbed by Pigment System I) with a half time of about 5 sec, and it saturated at about 10 000 ergs×cm−2×sec−1.
Light I and Light II competed with each other in the interconversion of the states. 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
2. A shoulder on this spectrum around 662 nm is due to a component different from chlorophyll b. This component may well be identical with the chlorophyll a form, chlorophyll a (665).
3. The 77°K chlorophyll b absorption spectra in the nonfractionated photosyn-thetic pigment apparatus and in fractions mainly representing Photosystems 1 or 2 are not significantly different.
4. The aerobic irreversible photobleaching of chlorophyll b was studied in the intact pigment complex as well as in fractions mainly consisting of Photosystem 1 or 2. A two-step photobleaching was observed in all cases. The time-course of this bleaching was not significantly different for chlorophyll b in both fractions.
5. These results do not indicate that more than a single chlorophyll b complex occurs in vivo. 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
The signal was seen only with intact, but not with broken, envelope-free chloroplasts, which had lost most of their divalent cations. This is interpreted to show that the indicator responds to an increase of Mg2+ concentration in the chloroplast stroma, which represents an efflux of Mg2+ from the intra-thylakoid space caused by light-dependent proton pumping.
As calculated from corrected values of the absorbance increase of Eriochrome Blue, the light-induced internal release of Mg2+ was close to 100 nequiv per mg chlorophyll at pH 7.6 and 250 nequiv at pH 7.1. This corresponds to a light-dependent increase in the concentration of free Mg2+ in the stroma of about 2 and 5 mM, respectively. 相似文献
1. (1) MgCl2 (1–10 mM range) decreases the intersystem transfer but does not modify the partition of absorbed photons between the photosystems. MgCl2 addition causes a simultaneous increase of excitation life time (τ) and of fluorescence intensity (F). The same linear relationship is obtained with or without added Mg2+.
2. (2) The deactivation of Photosystem II by the Photosystem II to Photosystem I transfer increases with the level of reduced Photosystem II traps. When all Photosystem II traps are closed, half of Photosystem II excitons are deactivated by transfer to Photosystem I.
3. (3) From the relative values of the 685-nm fluorescence yield and System II electron transport rate in limiting light, measured with and without MgCl2, the values of rate constants of Photosystem II deactivation were calculated.
4. (4) The intersystem transfer determines a 715-nm variable fluorescence, which is lowered by MgCl2 addition. When this transfer is decreased by MgCl2 the efficiency of the transfer between Photosystem II-connected units is enhanced, and a more sigmoidal fluorescence rise is obtained.
A double-layer model of the thylakoid membrane where each photosystem is restricted to one leaflet is proposed to explain the decrease of the intersystem transfer after adding cations. It is suggested that MgCl2 decreases the thickness of the Photosystem I polar region, increasing the distance between the pigments of the two photosystems. 相似文献
Despite their increased chlorophyll content, low chlorophyll a/chlorophyll b ratio, and large grana, the shade plant chloroplasts were fragmented with digitonin to yield small fragments (D-144) highly enriched in Photosystem I, and large fragments (D-10) enriched in Photosystem II. The degree of fragmentation of the shade plant chloroplasts was remarkably similar to that of spinach chloroplasts, except that the subchloroplast fragments from the shade plants had lower chlorophyll a/chlorophyll b ratios than the corresponding fragments from spinach. The D-10 fragments from the shade plants had chlorophyll a/chlorophyll b ratios of 1.78-2.00 and the D-144 fragments ratios of 3.54–4.07. We conclude that Photosystems I and II of the shade plants have lower proportions of chlorophyll a to chlorophyll b than the corresponding photosystems of spinach. The lower chlorophyll a/chlorophyll b ratio of shade plant chloroplasts is not due to a significant increase in the ratio of Photosystem II to Photosystem I in these chloroplasts.
The extent of grana formation in higher plant chloroplasts appears to be related to the total chlorophyll content of the chloroplast. Grana formation may simply be an means of achieving a higher density of light-harvesting assemblies and hence a more efficient collection of light quanta. 相似文献
2. The amount of G-actin-bound calcium, as well as the sum of bivalent cation after replacement, not removable by short-time Dowex-50 treatment, accounts to about 1 mole per 50000 g of G-actin.
3. The rate of exchange is of the same order for bivalent cations studied, including calcium.
4. G-actin-bound Ca2+ is fully replaced, besides free Ca2+, by free Mn2+ and Cd2+. The replacement with Mg2+, Co2+, Ni2+ and Zn2+ is not complete, and there is practically no reaction with Ba2+ and Sr2+.
5. Assuming the affinity constant of Ca2+ as 1, the following affinity constants for other bivalent cations were obtained: Mn2+, 0.90; Cd2+, 1.07; Mg2+, 0.27; Zn2+, 0.22; Co2+, 0.18; Ni2+, 0.08.
6. The results obtained show that there exists a close correlation between the ionic radius of a particular bivalent cation, and its ability to replace bound Ca2+. 相似文献
2. The FP ratio is typically in the range of 1.2–1.9 in Chlorella, 1.20–1.25 in Scenedesmus and 1.4–1.5 in spinach chloroplasts at fluorescence wavelengths above 690 nm. Below 690 nm the FP ratio decreases steadily with decreasing wavelength and may be as low as approx. 1.05 at 660 nm. These results are interpreted in terms of the orientation of the Qy transition moment vectors of the different spectroscopic forms of chlorophyll. For the chlorophyll a 680 form these vectors are inclined at angles of 30° or less (in Chlorella) with respect to the membrane planes, while the shorter wavelength chlorophyll a 670 forms appear to be not nearly as well oriented.
3. The Euglena fluorescence peak is red shifted to 714 nm (in the other algae and chloroplasts it is situated at 685 nm) and the FP ratio is approx. 1.20 in the 720–730 nm region and decreases with decreasing wavelength below 720 nm and is only 1.05 at 690 nm. This wavelength dependence is in good qualitative agreement with the fluorescence microscope studies of single chloroplasts of Euglena by Olson, R. A., Butler, W. H. and Jennings, W. H. ((1961) Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 54, 615–617).
4. By means of a model calculation it is shown that the high FP ratios observed with Chlorella are entirely consistent with the low values of the degree of polarization (0.01–0.06) determined by previous workers with unoriented cell suspensions.
5. The influence of reabsorption and the resulting distortion in the wavelength dependence of the FP ratio are described. The possibility that the fluorescence is polarized by scattering artifacts, rather than being a result of the intrinsic orientation of chlorophyll, is considered.
6. Linear dichroism studies with Chlorella and spinach chloroplasts confirm the orientation of the Qy transition moment vectors deduced from the FP ratio. Furthermore, it appears that the porphyrin rings are tilted out of the membrane plane and that the carotenoid molecules tend to lie with their long axes in the lamellar plane.
7. In Euglena, dichroism studies indicate that chlorophyll a 680 is unoriented, while chlorophyll a 695 appears to be oriented similar to chlorophyll a 680 in Chlorella or spinach chloroplasts, a result which is also in accord with the measured FP ratio of Euglena.
8. The possibility that the magnetic field gives rise to the reorientation of individual chlorophyll molecules is shown to be highly unlikely. 相似文献
1. 1. The effect of the Mg2+ concentration on the CO2 fixation activity in situ in isolated and intact spinach chloroplasts upon suspension in hypotonic medium was examined. CO2 fixation in the dark was activated 25–100 fold by 20 mM Mg2+ in the presence of added ATP plus either ribulose 5-phosphate or ribose 5-phosphate. 20 mM Mg2+-stimulated fixation only 2–3 fold in the presence of the substrate of fixation, ribulose 1,5-diphosphate. The highest Mg2+-stimulated rate of fixation in the dark observed with chloroplasts was 480 μmoles CO2 fixed per mg chlorophyll per h.
2. 2. The concentration of bicarbonate at half of the maximal velocity (apparent Km) during the Mg2+-stimulated fixation of CO2 was 0.4 mM in the presence of ATP plus ribose 5-phosphate and 0.6 mM with ribulose 1,5-diphosphate.
3. 3. Dithioerythritol or light enhanced Mg2+-stimulated CO2 fixation 1–3 fold in the presence of ATP plus ribose 5-phosphate but not ribulose 1,5-diphosphate.
4. 4. These results indicate that Mg2+ fluxes in the stroma of the chloroplast could control the activity of the phosphoribulokinase with a lesser effect on the ribulosediphosphate carboxylase. An increase in Mg2+ of 6–10 mM in the stroma region of the chloroplast would be enough to activate CO2 fixation during photosynthesis.
2. The DT-10 fragment showed only traces of photochemical activity with water as electron donor, but it was active in a Photosystem II reaction with 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol as electron acceptor and diphenyl carbazide as donor. Photoreduction of NADP+ with diphenyl carbazide as donor was negligible. There was some photoreduction of NADP+ with ascorbate plus 2,6 dichlorophenolindophenol as donor but this activity could be accounted for by contamination with Photosystem I. These results are consistent with the Z-scheme of photosynthesis with Photosystems I and II operating in series for the reduction of NADP+ from water. DT-10 subchloroplast fragments showed a light-induced rise in fluorescence yield at 20 °C in the presence of diphenyl carbazide. A light-induced fluorescence increase also was observed at 77 °K.
3. During the preparation of the DT-10 fragment, the high potential form of cytochrome b-559 was largely converted to a form of lower potential and C-550 was converted to the reduced state. A photoreduction of C-550 was observed at liquidnitrogen temperature, provided the C-550 was oxidised with ferricyanide prior to cooling. Some photooxidation of cytochrome b-559 was obtained at 77 °K if the preparation was reduced prior to cooling, but the degree of photooxidation was variable with different preparations. C-550 does not appear to be identical with the primary fluorescence quencher, Q.
4. Photosystem I subchloroplast fragments (D-144) released by the action of digitonin were compared with Photosystem I fragments (DT-144) released from D-10 fragments by Triton X-100. There were no significant differences between D-144 and DT-144 fragments either in chlorophyll a/b ratio or in P700 content. 相似文献