Weak Light-Induced Oxygen Consumption Observed during Photoreactivation Is Coupled to the Recovery of Oxygen Evolving Activity |
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| Authors: | Ebina, Masumi Yamashita, Takashi |
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| Affiliation: | 1National Grass Land Research Institute Senbonmatsu, Nishinasuno, Nasugun, Tochigi, 329-27 Japan
2Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305 Japan |
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| Abstract: | During photoreactivation of the O2-evolving center in Tris-inactivated/Mn-depletedthylakoids, a slow O2-consumption occurred. This O2-consumptionbecame detectable when the O2-evolving activity of thylakoidswas inactivated by Tris-treatment and decreased as photoreactivationproceeded. The O2-consumption and photoreactivation similarlyrequired Mn2+ at µM levels in addition to PSII electrondonors and shared severa common characteristics. Stimulationof O2-consumption and photoreactivation by these cofactors werealways accompanied by enhancement in chlorophyll fluorescenceinduction, suggesting the involvement of a Mehler-type reactionin photoreactivation. Although the electron transport due tothis O2-consumption was rapid enough to oxidize 4 Mn2+ ionsto reconstitute the tetranuclear Mn-cluster in each O2-evolvingcenter in a few seconds, actual recovery of O2-evolving activityoccurred more slowly in a few minutes. It was inferred thatphotoreactivation in Tris-inactivated thylakoids is not a simplephotooxidation of Mn22+ but involves more complicated processeswhich are coupled to the Mehlertype electron transport fromPSII to oxygen via PSI. (Received July 11, 1994; Accepted August 23, 1996) |
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