Effects of bicarbonate and oxygen concentration on photoinhibition of thylakoid membranes |
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Authors: | Cecilia Sundby Maria Mattsson Torbjörn Schiött |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Biochemistry, University of Lund, P.O. Box 124, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden |
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Abstract: | The effects of bicarbonate and oxygen on photoinhibition of thylakoid membranes were investigated by varying their concentrations independently of each other. A pretreatment of the thylakoid suspension which lowered the bicarbonate concentration of the medium without affecting its oxygen content, increased the degree of photoinhibition upon illumination. This showed that the normal bicarbonate content of a thylakoid suspension, originating from dissolved carbondioxide from the air, protects against photoinhibition. The resistance against photoinhibition was further increased by addition of extra NaHCO3 up to about 5 mM. The normal oxygen content can be decreased profoundly without affecting the degree of photoinhibition; in contrast, even small changes from the normal bicarbonate content affected photoinhibition.At oxygen concentrations approximately below 25 M, added NaHCO3 not only did not protect, but caused a more severe PS 2 inactivation. This was due to a blockage by added NaHCO3 of the recovery from a reversible photoinhibited state.Furthermore, it is shown that if the bicarbonate ions bound to high-affinity sites in PS 2 were replaced by formate ions, the thylakoid membranes became less susceptible to photoinhibition under normal oxygen tension.Abbreviations chl
chlorophyll
- HEPES
(N-2-Hydroxyethyl]piperazine-N -2-ethanesulfonic acid])
- PpBQ
phenyl-p-benzoquinone
- PS 2
Photosystem 2
- QA and QB
primary and secondary quinone acceptors of Photosystem 2 |
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Keywords: | anaerobic carbondioxide photoinactivation Photosystem 2 reaction center reversible photoinhibition |
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