Biophysical studies on subcellular particles VII. Combined effects of alcohol and heat on photosynthetic activities in isolated spinach chloroplasts |
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Authors: | Mukohata Yasuo; Yagi Takao; Matsuno Akemi; Higashida Mitsuhiro |
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Institution: | Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Osaka University Toyonaka, Osaka 560, Japan |
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Abstract: | Isolated spinach chloroplasts were warmed for 5 min at temperaturesranging between 20? and 55?C in the presence of short-chainaliphatic alcohols, and their photosynthetic activities wereassayed. Tmax, the temperature at which ferricyanide reduction is stimulatedto a maximum extent, was lowered with an increase in the concentrationof alcohol or the chain-length of n-alcohols. Values also differedamong the structural isomers of an alcohol. The Tmax shift wasobserved only when alcohol was present in a chloroplast suspensionduring warming treatment, indicating that heat and alcohol wereacting together to lower the Tmax, at which the phosphorylationactivity fell to zero. The combined effects of alcohol and heat are discussed in connectionwith the lipophilic construction of thylakoids through the partitionco-efficient of individual alcohols between water and n-octylalcohol. (Received August 5, 1972; ) |
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