Heterogeneity of system II secondary electron acceptors in Tris-washed chloroplasts |
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Authors: | Alain Boussac Anne-Lise Etienne |
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Affiliation: | Laboratoire de Photosynthèse, CNRS, 91190 Gif-sur-YvetteFrance |
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Abstract: | Tris-washed chloroplasts were submitted to saturating short flashes, and then rapidly mixed with dichlorophenyldimethylurea (DCMU). The amount of singly reduced secondary acceptor was estimated from the DCMU-induced increase in fluorescence, caused by the reverse electron flow from secondary to primary acceptor. The back-transfer from the singly reduced secondary acceptor to the primary acceptor Q induced by DCMU addition affects only a part (60%) of the variable fluorescence (ΔFmax). As previously shown, the quenchers involved in this phenomenon, ‘B-type’ quenchers, are different from those controlling the complementary part of the fluorescence, the non-B-type. In this report, we show that at pH 8.5 in the B-type systems, there exist two kinds of secondary electron acceptors: B, a two-electron acceptor, the corresponding Q accounting for 40% of the variable fluorescence; B′, a one-electron acceptor, the corresponding Q accounting for 20% of the variable fluorescence. The lifetimes of B? and B′? in the absence of DCMU are 40 and 1 s, respectively. The primary acceptors of the B and B′ systems can be considered as corresponding to the Q1s defined previously (Joliot, P. and Joliot, A. (1981) in Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on Photosynthesis (Akoynoglou, G., ed.), pp. 885–899, Balaban International Science Services, Philadelphia). The B′ centers seems to be equivalent to the Qβ centers as defined by other workers (Van Gorkom, H.J., Thielen, A.P.G.M. and Gorren, A.C.F. (1982) in The Function of Quinones in Energy Conserving Systems (Trumpower, B.L., ed.), Academic Press, New York, in the press). |
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Keywords: | Photosystem II Electron transfer Fluorescence (Pea chloroplast) DCMU 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea Tricine Mes 2- (N-morpholino)ethanesulfonic acid PS photosystem |
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