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Sagun JV, Badger MR, Chow WS, Ghannoum O. Mehler reaction plays a role in C 3 and C 4 photosynthesis under shade and low CO 2. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2021; 149:171-185. [PMID: 33534052 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-021-00819-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2020] [Accepted: 01/09/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Alternative electron fluxes such as the cyclic electron flux (CEF) around photosystem I (PSI) and Mehler reaction (Me) are essential for efficient photosynthesis because they generate additional ATP and protect both photosystems against photoinhibition. The capacity for Me can be estimated by measuring O2 exchange rate under varying irradiance and CO2 concentration. In this study, mass spectrometric measurements of O2 exchange were made using leaves of representative species of C3 and C4 grasses grown under natural light (control; PAR ~ 800 µmol quanta m-2 s-1) and shade (~ 300 µmol quanta m-2 s-1), and in representative species of gymnosperm, liverwort and fern grown under natural light. For all control grown plants measured at high CO2, O2 uptake rates were similar between the light and dark, and the ratio of Rubisco oxygenation to carboxylation (Vo/Vc) was low, which suggests little potential for Me, and that O2 uptake was mainly due to photorespiration or mitochondrial respiration under these conditions. Low CO2 stimulated O2 uptake in the light, Vo/Vc and Me in all species. The C3 species had similar Vo/Vc, but Me was highest in the grass and lowest in the fern. Among the C4 grasses, shade increased O2 uptake in the light, Vo/Vc and the assimilation quotient (AQ), particularly at low CO2, whilst Me was only substantial at low CO2 where it may contribute 20-50% of maximum electron flow under high light.
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- Julius Ver Sagun
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Hawkesbury Campus, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis, Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis, Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Hawkesbury Campus, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia.
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Borisova-Mubarakshina MM, Vetoshkina DV, Ivanov BN. Antioxidant and signaling functions of the plastoquinone pool in higher plants. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2019; 166:181-198. [PMID: 30706486 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.12936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2018] [Revised: 01/23/2019] [Accepted: 01/25/2019] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The review covers data representing the plastoquinone pool as the component integrated in plant antioxidant defense and plant signaling. The main goal of the review is to discuss the evidence describing the plastoquinone-involved biochemical reactions, which are incorporated in maintaining the sustainability of higher plants to stress conditions. In this context, the analysis of the reactions of various redox forms of plastoquinone with oxygen species is presented. The review describes how these reactions can constitute both the antioxidant and signaling functions of the pool. Special attention is paid to the reaction of superoxide anion radicals with plastohydroquinone molecules, producing hydrogen peroxide as signal molecules. Attention is also given to the processes affecting the redox state of the plastoquinone pool because the redox state of the pool is of special importance for antioxidant defense and signaling.
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- Institute of Basic Biological Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia
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- Institute of Basic Biological Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia
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Lu T, Shi JW, Sun ZP, Qi MF, Liu YF, Li TL. Response of linear and cyclic electron flux to moderate high temperature and high light stress in tomato. J Zhejiang Univ Sci B 2018; 18:635-648. [PMID: 28681588 DOI: 10.1631/jzus.b1600286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the possible photoprotection mechanisms of cyclic and linear electron flux (CEF and LEF) under specific high temperature and high light (HH) stress. METHODS Six-leaf-stage tomato seedlings ("Liaoyuanduoli", n=160) were divided into four parts: Part 1, served as control under 25 °C, 500 µmol/(m2·s); Part 2, spayed with distilled water (H2O) under 35 °C, 1000 µmol/(m2·s) (HH); Part 3, spayed with 100 µmol/L diuron (DCMU, CEF inhibitor) under HH; Part 4, spayed with 60 µmol/L methyl viologen (MV, LEF inhibitor) under HH. Energy conversion, photosystem I (PSI), and PSII activity, and trans-thylakoid membrane proton motive force were monitored during the treatment of 5 d and of the recovering 10 d. RESULTS HH decreased photochemical reaction dissipation (P) and the maximal photochemical efficiency of PSII (Fv/Fm), and increased the excitation energy distribution coefficient of PSII (β); DCMU and MV aggravated the partition imbalance of the excitation energy (γ) and the photoinhibition degree. With prolonged DCMU treatment time, electron transport rate and quantum efficiency of PSI (ETRI and YI) significantly decreased whereas acceptor and donor side limitation of PSI (YNA and YND) increased. MV led to a significant decline and accession of yield of regulated and non-regulated energy YNPQ and YNO, respectively. Membrane integrity and ATPase activity were reduced by HH stress, and DCMU and MV enhanced inhibitory actions. CONCLUSIONS The protective effects of CEF and LEF were mediated to a certain degree by meliorations in energy absorption and distribution as well as by maintenance of thylakoid membrane integrity and ATPase activity.
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- Tao Lu
- College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang 110866, China.,Key Laboratory of Protected Horticulture of Education Ministry and Liaoning Province, Shenyang 110866, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Protected Vegetable Surrounds Bohai Gulf Region, Shenyang 110866, China
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- College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang 110866, China.,Key Laboratory of Protected Horticulture of Education Ministry and Liaoning Province, Shenyang 110866, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Protected Vegetable Surrounds Bohai Gulf Region, Shenyang 110866, China
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- College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang 110866, China.,Key Laboratory of Protected Horticulture of Education Ministry and Liaoning Province, Shenyang 110866, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Protected Vegetable Surrounds Bohai Gulf Region, Shenyang 110866, China
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- College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang 110866, China.,Key Laboratory of Protected Horticulture of Education Ministry and Liaoning Province, Shenyang 110866, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Protected Vegetable Surrounds Bohai Gulf Region, Shenyang 110866, China
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- College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang 110866, China.,Key Laboratory of Protected Horticulture of Education Ministry and Liaoning Province, Shenyang 110866, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Protected Vegetable Surrounds Bohai Gulf Region, Shenyang 110866, China
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- College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang 110866, China.,Key Laboratory of Protected Horticulture of Education Ministry and Liaoning Province, Shenyang 110866, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Protected Vegetable Surrounds Bohai Gulf Region, Shenyang 110866, China
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He J, Qin L, Chong ELC, Choong TW, Lee SK. Plant Growth and Photosynthetic Characteristics of Mesembryanthemum crystallinum Grown Aeroponically under Different Blue- and Red-LEDs. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:361. [PMID: 28367156 PMCID: PMC5355428 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2016] [Accepted: 03/01/2017] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Mesembryanthemum crystallinum is a succulent, facultative crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) plant. Plant growth and photosynthetic characteristics were studied when M. crystallinum plants were grown indoor under light emitting diodes (LED)-lighting with adequate water supply. Plants were cultured aeroponically for a 16-h photoperiod at an equal photosynthetic photon flux density of 350 μmol m-2 s-1 under different red:blue LED ratios: (1) 100:0 (0B); (2) 90:10 (10B); (3) 80:20 (20B); (4) 70:30 (30B); (5) 50:50 (50B); and (6)100:0 (100B). M. crystallinum grown under 10B condition had the highest shoot and root biomass and shoot/root ratio while those grown under 0B condition exhibited the lowest values. Compared to plants grown under 0B condition, all other plants had similar but higher total chlorophyll (Chl) and carotenoids (Car) contents and higher Chl a/b ratios. However, there were no significant differences in Chl/Car ratio among all plants grown under different red- and blue-LEDs. Photosynthetic light use efficiency measured by photochemical quenching, non-photochemical quenching, and electron transport rate, demonstrated that plants grown under high blue-LED utilized more light energy and had more effective heat dissipation mechanism compared to plants grown under 0B or lower blue-LED. Statistically, there were no differences in photosynthetic O2 evolution rate, light-saturated CO2 assimilation rate (Asat), and light-saturated stomatal conductance (gssat) among plants grown under different combined red- and blue-LEDs but they were significantly higher than those of 0B plants. No statistically differences in total reduced nitrogen content were found among all plants. For the total soluble protein, all plants grown under different combined red- and blue-LEDs had similar values but they were significantly higher than that of plants grown under 0B condition. However, plants grown under higher blue-LEDs had significant higher ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase (Rubisco) protein than those plants grown under lower blue-LED. High Asat and gssat but very low CAM acidity of all M. crystallinum plants during light period, imply that this facultative CAM plant performed C3 photosynthesis when supplied with adequate water. Results of this study suggest that compared to red- or blue-LED alone, appropriate combination of red- and blue-LED lighting enhanced plant growth and photosynthetic capacities of M. crystallinum.
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- Jie He
- National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore, Singapore
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Kruse J, Alfarraj S, Rennenberg H, Adams M. A novel mechanistic interpretation of instantaneous temperature responses of leaf net photosynthesis. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2016; 129:43-58. [PMID: 27220614 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-016-0262-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2015] [Accepted: 04/11/2016] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Steady-state rates of leaf CO2 assimilation (A) in response to incubation temperature (T) are often symmetrical around an optimum temperature. A/T curves of C3 plants can thus be fitted to a modified Arrhenius equation, where the activation energy of A close to a low reference temperature is strongly correlated with the dynamic change of activation energy to increasing incubation temperature. We tested how [CO2] < current atmospheric levels and saturating light, or [CO2] at 800 µmol mol(-1) and variable light affect parameters that describe A/T curves, and how these parameters are related to known properties of temperature-dependent thylakoid electron transport. Variation of light intensity and substomatal [CO2] had no influence on the symmetry of A/T curves, but significantly affected their breadth. Thermodynamic and kinetic (physiological) factors responsible for (i) the curvature in Arrhenius plots and (ii) the correlation between parameters of a modified Arrhenius equation are discussed. We argue that the shape of A/T curves cannot satisfactorily be explained via classical concepts assuming temperature-dependent shifts between rate-limiting processes. Instead the present results indicate that any given A/T curve appears to reflect a distinct flux mode, set by the balance between linear and cyclic electron transport, and emerging from the anabolic demand for ATP relative to that for NADPH.
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- Jörg Kruse
- Chair of Tree Physiology, Institute of Forest Sciences, Georges-Köhler-Allee 53/54, 79110, Freiburg, Germany.
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- College of Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia
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- Chair of Tree Physiology, Institute of Forest Sciences, Georges-Köhler-Allee 53/54, 79110, Freiburg, Germany
- College of Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia
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- Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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Tu W, Li Y, Liu W, Wu L, Xie X, Zhang Y, Wilhelm C, Yang C. Spring Ephemerals Adapt to Extremely High Light Conditions via an Unusual Stabilization of Photosystem II. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 6:1189. [PMID: 26779223 PMCID: PMC4702278 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.01189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2015] [Accepted: 10/30/2015] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Ephemerals, widely distributed in the Gobi desert, have developed significant characteristics to sustain high photosynthetic efficiency under high light (HL) conditions. Since the light reaction is the basis for photosynthetic conversion of solar energy to chemical energy, the photosynthetic performances in thylakoid membrane of the spring ephemerals in response to HL were studied. Three plant species, namely two C3 spring ephemeral species of Cruciferae: Arabidopsis pumila (A. pumila) and Sisymbrium altissimum (S. altissimum), and the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana (A. thaliana) were chosen for the study. The ephemeral A. pumila, which is genetically close to A. thaliana and ecologically in the same habitat as S. altissimum, was used to avoid complications arising from the superficial differences resulted from comparing plants from two extremely contrasting ecological groups. The findings manifested that the ephemerals showed significantly enhanced activities of photosystem (PS) II under HL conditions, while the activities of PSII in A. thaliana were markedly decreased under the same conditions. Detailed analyses of the electron transport processes revealed that the increased plastoquinone pool oxidization, together with the enhanced PSI activities, ensured a lowered excitation pressure to PSII of both ephemerals, and thus facilitated the photosynthetic control to avoid photodamage to PSII. The analysis of the reaction centers of the PSs, both in terms of D1 protein turnover kinetics and the long-term adaptation, revealed that the unusually stable PSs structure provided the basis for the ephemerals to carry out high photosynthetic performances. It is proposed that the characteristic photosynthetic performances of ephemerals were resulted from effects of the long-term adaptation to the harsh environments.
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- Wenfeng Tu
- Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biogeography and Bioresource, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of SciencesUrumqi, China
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- Institute of Biology, Department of Plant Physiology, University of LeipzigLeipzig, Germany
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- Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China
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Dong L, Tu W, Liu K, Sun R, Liu C, Wang K, Yang C. The PsbS protein plays important roles in photosystem II supercomplex remodeling under elevated light conditions. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2015; 172:33-41. [PMID: 25047739 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2014.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2014] [Revised: 06/05/2014] [Accepted: 06/05/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Leaves from three different Arabidopsis lines with different expression levels of PsbS protein showed different levels of non-photochemical quenching. The PsbS deficient plant npq4 showed remarkable reduction of electron transport rate, while the other two lines with a moderate amount (wild type) or an overexpression of PsbS (L17) presented unchanged electron transport rates under the same range of high light intensities. Biochemical investigation revealed that the plant with the highest PsbS content (L17) sustained the highest level of stable PSII-LHCII supercomplex structure, and displayed the smallest fluorescence quenching in the thylakoid membranes, the most efficient linear electron transport and the smallest cyclic electron transport. Based on these observations, it is proposed that the remodeling of PSII-LHCII supercomplexes affected by PsbS plays important roles in regulating the energy balance in thylakoid membrane and in ensuring the sophisticated coordination between energy excitation and dissipation.
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- Lianqing Dong
- Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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- Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.
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Experimental data concerning the role of ascorbic acid in both the maintenance of photosynthesis and in the protection of the photosynthetic apparatus against reactive oxygen species and photoinhibition are reviewed. The function of ascorbic acid as an electron donor in the "Krasnovsky reaction", as well as its physiological role as a donor to components of the photosynthetic electron transport chain, which was first studied by A. A. Krasnovsky in the 1980s, is discussed. Data on the content and transport of ascorbic acid in plant cells and chloroplasts are presented.
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- B N Ivanov
- Institute of Basic Biological Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, 142290, Russia.
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Tóth SZ, Schansker G, Garab G. The physiological roles and metabolism of ascorbate in chloroplasts. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2013; 148:161-75. [PMID: 23163968 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.12006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2012] [Revised: 10/30/2012] [Accepted: 10/31/2012] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Ascorbate is a multifunctional metabolite in plants. It is essential for growth control, involving cell division and cell wall synthesis and also involved in redox signaling, in the modulation of gene expression and regulation of enzymatic activities. Ascorbate also fulfills crucial roles in scavenging reactive oxygen species, both enzymatically and nonenzymatically, a well-established phenomenon in the chloroplasts stroma. We give an overview on these important physiological functions and would like to give emphasis to less well-known roles of ascorbate, in the thylakoid lumen, where it also plays multiple roles. It is essential for photoprotection as a cofactor for violaxanthin de-epoxidase, a key enzyme in the formation of nonphotochemical quenching. Lumenal ascorbate has recently also been shown to act as an alternative electron donor of photosystem II once the oxygen-evolving complex is inactivated and to protect the photosynthetic machinery by slowing down donor-side induced photoinactivation; it is yet to be established if ascorbate has a similar role in the case of other stress effects, such as high light and UV-B stress. In bundle sheath cells, deficient in oxygen evolution, ascorbate provides electrons to photosystem II, thereby poising cyclic electron transport around photosystem I. It has also been shown that, by supporting linear electron transport through photosystem II in sulfur-deprived Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells, in which oxygen evolution is largely inhibited, externally added ascorbate enhances hydrogen production. For fulfilling its multiple roles, Asc has to be transported into the thylakoid lumen and efficiently regenerated; however, very little is known yet about these processes.
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- Szilvia Z Tóth
- Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, P.O. Box 521, H-6701, Hungary.
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Nath S, Elangovan R. New perspectives on photosynthetic phosphorylation in the light of a torsional mechanism of energy transduction and ATP synthesis. J Bioenerg Biomembr 2011; 43:601-10. [PMID: 22083127 DOI: 10.1007/s10863-011-9396-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2011] [Accepted: 10/18/2011] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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New perspectives on photophosphorylation have been offered from the standpoint of the torsional mechanism of energy transduction and ATP synthesis. New experimental data on the involvement of malate anions in ATP synthesis in an acid-base malate bath procedure has been reported on spinach chloroplast thylakoids as the model system. The data cannot be reconciled with the chemiosmotic theory but has been shown to be naturally explained by the torsional mechanism. The path of malic acid in the acid and base stages of the experiment has been traced, offering further strong support to the new paradigm. Classical observations in the field have been re-interpreted in the light of these findings. A new concept of ion translocation, energy transduction and coupling at the overall physiological level in photophosphorylation has been presented and a large number of novel experimentally testable predictions have been made and shown to arise as logical consequences of the new perspectives.
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- Sunil Nath
- Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, 110016, India.
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Laisk A, Talts E, Oja V, Eichelmann H, Peterson RB. Fast cyclic electron transport around photosystem I in leaves under far-red light: a proton-uncoupled pathway? PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2010; 103:79-95. [PMID: 20039131 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-009-9513-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2009] [Accepted: 11/30/2009] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Fast cyclic electron transport (CET) around photosystem I (PS I) was observed in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) leaves under intense far-red light (FRL) of up to 200 mumol quanta m(-2) s(-1). The electron transport rate (ETR) through PS I was found from the FRL-dark transmittance change at 810 and 950 nm, which was deconvoluted into redox states and pool sizes of P700, plastocyanin (PC) and cytochrome f (Cyt f). PC and P700 were in redox equilibrium with K(e) = 35 (ΔE(m) = 90 mV). PS II ETR was based on O(2) evolution. CET [(PS I ETR) - (PS II ETR)] increased to 50-70 mumol e(-) m(-2) s(-1) when linear electron transport (LET) under FRL was limited to 5 mumol e(-) m(-2) s(-1) in a gas phase containing 20-40 mumol CO(2) mol(-1) and 20 mumol O(2) mol(-1). Under these conditions, pulse-saturated fluorescence yield F(m) was non-photochemically quenched; however, F(m) was similarly quenched when LET was driven by low green or white light, which energetically precluded the possibility for active CET. We suggest that under FRL, CET is rather not coupled to transmembrane proton translocation than the CET-coupled protons are short-circuited via proton channels regulated to open at high ΔpH. A kinetic analysis of CET electron donors and acceptors suggests the CET pathway is that of the reversed Q-cycle: Fd -> (FNR) -> Cyt c(n) -> Cyt b(h) -> Cyt b(l) -> Rieske FeS -> Cyt f -> PC -> P700 ->-> Fd. CET is activated when PQH(2) oxidation is opposed by high ΔpH, and ferredoxin (Fd) is reduced due to low availability of e(-) acceptors. The physiological significance of CET may be photoprotective, as CET may be regarded as a mechanism of energy dissipation under stress conditions.
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- Agu Laisk
- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Tartu University, Estonia.
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Takizawa K, Kanazawa A, Kramer DM. Depletion of stromal P(i) induces high 'energy-dependent' antenna exciton quenching (q(E)) by decreasing proton conductivity at CF(O)-CF(1) ATP synthase. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2008; 31:235-43. [PMID: 17996016 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2007.01753.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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This work tests two models to account for the effects of depletion of stromal inorganic phosphate (P(i)), which results in down-regulation of light capture via the exciton quenching (q(E)) mechanism and has been proposed to act in feedback regulation of the light reactions. In both models, antenna down-regulation is activated by acidification of the lumen, despite the fact that linear electron flow (LEF) (and associated proton flux) is decreased upon P(i) depletion. In one model, an imbalance of ATP or NADPH activates cyclic electron transfer around photosystem I (CEF1), increasing proton influx to the lumen. In the second, the effective conductivity of the CF(O)-CF(1) ATP synthase to protons (g(H)(+)) is decreased, retarding proton efflux from the lumen. Sequestering of P(i) by mannose infiltration increased sensitivities of q(E) and pmf to LEF. The effects were attributable to decreases in g(H)(+), but not to CEF1 and were largely reversed by subsequent P(i) feeding. Rapid recovery of g(H)(+) in the dark suggested that dark-labile metabolic pools are responsible for regulation of the ATP synthase. Overall, these results support models where accumulation of Benson-Calvin cycle intermediates or lowering of stromal P(i) below its K(M)at the ATP synthase, retards proton efflux from the lumen, leading to build-up of pmf and subsequent down-regulation of photosynthetic light capture.
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- Kenji Takizawa
- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6340, USA
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Laisk A, Eichelmann H, Oja V, Talts E, Scheibe R. Rates and Roles of Cyclic and Alternative Electron Flow in Potato Leaves. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 48:1575-88. [DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcm129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Ivanov B, Asada K, Edwards GE. Analysis of donors of electrons to photosystem I and cyclic electron flow by redox kinetics of P700 in chloroplasts of isolated bundle sheath strands of maize. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2007; 92:65-74. [PMID: 17551845 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-007-9166-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2007] [Accepted: 04/02/2007] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Bundle sheath chloroplasts of NADP-malic enzyme (NADP-ME) type C4 species have a high demand for ATP, while being deficient in linear electron flow and oxidation of water by photosystem II (PSII). To evaluate electron donors to photosystem I (PSI) and possible pathways of cyclic electron flow (CEF1) in isolated bundle sheath strands of maize (Zea mays L.), an NADP-ME species, light-induced redox kinetics of the reaction center chlorophyll of PSI (P700) were followed under aerobic conditions. Donors of electrons to CEF1 are needed to compensate for electrons lost from the cycle. When stromal electron donors to CEF1 are generated during pre-illumination with actinic light (AL), they retard the subsequent rate of oxidation of P700 by far-red light. Ascorbate was more effective than malate in generating stromal electron donors by AL. The generation of stromal donors by ascorbate was inhibited by DCMU, showing ascorbate donates electrons to the oxidizing side of PSII. The inhibitors of NADPH dehydrogenase (NDH), amytal and rotenone, accelerated the oxidation rate of P700 by far-red light after AL, indicating donation of electrons to the intersystem from stromal donors via NDH. These inhibitors, however, did not affect the steady-state level of P700+ under AL, which represents a balance of input and output of electrons in P700. In contrast, antimycin A, the inhibitor of the ferredoxin-plastoquinone reductase-dependent CEF1, substantially lowered the level of P700+ under AL. Thus, the primary pathway of ATP generation by CEF1 may be through ferredoxin-plastoquinone, while function of CEF1 via NDH may be restricted by low levels of ferredoxin-NADP reductase. NDH may contribute to redox poising of CEF1, or function to generate ATP in linear electron flow to O2 via PSI, utilizing NADPH generated from malate by chloroplastic NADP-ME.
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- Boris Ivanov
- Institute of Basic Biological Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, 142290, Russia
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Wormuth D, Baier M, Kandlbinder A, Scheibe R, Hartung W, Dietz KJ. Regulation of gene expression by photosynthetic signals triggered through modified CO2 availability. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2006; 6:15. [PMID: 16916444 PMCID: PMC1579212 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-6-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2006] [Accepted: 08/17/2006] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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BACKGROUND To coordinate metabolite fluxes and energy availability, plants adjust metabolism and gene expression to environmental changes through employment of interacting signalling pathways. RESULTS Comparing the response of Arabidopsis wild-type plants with that of the mutants adg1, pgr1 and vtc1 upon altered CO2-availability, the regulatory role of the cellular energy status, photosynthetic electron transport, the redox state and concentration of ascorbate and glutathione and the assimilatory force was analyzed in relation to the transcript abundance of stress-responsive nuclear encoded genes and psaA and psbA encoding the reaction centre proteins of photosystem I and II, respectively. Transcript abundance of Bap1, Stp1, psaA and psaB was coupled with seven metabolic parameters. Especially for psaA and psaB, the complex analysis demonstrated that the assumed PQ-dependent redox control is subordinate to signals linked to the relative availability of 3-PGA and DHAP, which define the assimilatory force. For the transcripts of sAPx and Csd2 high correlations with the calculated redox state of NADPH were observed in pgr1, but not in wild-type, suggesting that in wild-type plants signals depending on thylakoid acidification overlay a predominant redox-signal. Strongest correlation with the redox state of ascorbate was observed for 2CPA, whose transcript abundance regulation however was almost insensitive to the ascorbate content demonstrating dominance of redox regulation over metabolite sensing. CONCLUSION In the mutants, signalling pathways are partially uncoupled, demonstrating dominance of metabolic control of photoreaction centre expression over sensing the redox state of the PQ-pool. The balance between the cellular redox poise and the energy signature regulates sAPx and Csd2 transcript abundance, while 2CPA expression is primarily redox-controlled.
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- Dennis Wormuth
- Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants, Bielefeld University – W5, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
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- Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants, Bielefeld University – W5, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
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- Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants, Bielefeld University – W5, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
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- Plant Physiology, University of Osnabrück, FB 5, 49069 Osnabrück, Germany
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- Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Julius von Sachs-Institut für Biowissenschaften, 97082 Würzburg, Germany
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- Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants, Bielefeld University – W5, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
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Joliot P, Joliot A. Cyclic electron flow in C3 plants. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2006; 1757:362-8. [PMID: 16762315 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2006.02.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2005] [Revised: 02/03/2006] [Accepted: 02/25/2006] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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This paper summarized our present view on the mechanism of cyclic electron flow in C3 plants. We propose that cyclic and linear pathways are in competition for the reoxidation of the soluble primary PSI acceptor, Ferredoxin (Fd), that freely diffuses in the stromal compartment. In the linear mode, Fd binds ferredoxin-NADP-reductase and electrons are transferred to NADP+ and then to the Benson and Calvin cycle. In the cyclic mode, Fd binds a site localized on the stromal side of the cytochrome b6f complex and electrons are transferred to P700 via a mechanism derived from the Q-cycle. In dark-adapted leaves, the cyclic flow operates at maximum rate, owing to the partial inactivation of the Benson and Calvin cycle. For increasing time of illumination, the activation of the Benson and Calvin cycle, and thus, that of the linear flow, is associated with a subsequent decrease in the rate of the cyclic flow. Under steady-state conditions of illumination, the contribution of cyclic flow to PSI turnover increases as a function of the light intensity (from 0 to approximately 50% for weak to saturating light, respectively). Lack of CO2 is associated with an increase in the efficiency of the cyclic flow. ATP concentration could be one of the parameters that control the transition between linear and cyclic modes.
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- Pierre Joliot
- CNRS UMR 7141, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, 13, rue Pierre-et-Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France.
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Ducruet JM, Roman M, Havaux M, Janda T, Gallais A. Cyclic electron flow around PSI monitored by afterglow luminescence in leaves of maize inbred lines (Zea mays L.): correlation with chilling tolerance. PLANTA 2005; 221:567-79. [PMID: 15688225 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-004-1464-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2004] [Accepted: 11/02/2004] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Maize (Zea mays L.) inbred lines of contrasting chilling sensitivity (three tolerant, three sensitive lines) were acclimated to 280 mumol photons m(-2) s(-1) white light at a 17 degrees C sub-optimal temperature. They showed no symptoms of photoinhibition, despite slight changes in photosystem II (PSII) fluorescence and thermoluminescence properties in two tolerant lines. A luminescence "afterglow" emission [Bertsch and Azzi (1965) Biochim Biophys Acta 94:15-26], inducible by a far-red (FR) illumination of unfrozen leaf discs, was detected either as a bounce in decay kinetics at constant temperatures or as a sharp thermoluminescence afterglow band at about 45 degrees C, in dark-adapted leaves. This band reflects the induction by warming of an electron pathway from stromal reductants to plastoquinones and to the Q(B) secondary acceptor of PSII, resulting in a luminescence-emitting charge recombination in the fraction of centres that were initially in the S(2/3)Q(B) non-luminescent state. A 5-h exposure of plants to growth chamber light shifted this luminescence emission towards shorter times and lower temperatures for several hours in the three chilling-tolerant lines. This downshift was not observed, or only transiently, in the three sensitive lines. In darkness, the downshifted afterglow band relaxed within hours to resume its dark-adapted location, similar for all maize lines. A faster dark re-reduction of P700(+) oxidized by FR light (monitored by 820-nm absorbance) and an increase of photochemical energy storage under FR excitation (determined by photoacoustic spectroscopy) confirmed that a cyclic pathway induced by white actinic light remained activated for several hours in the tolerant maize lines.
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- Jean-Marc Ducruet
- Service de Bioénergétique, INRA/CEA-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France.
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Miyake C, Miyata M, Shinzaki Y, Tomizawa KI. CO2 response of cyclic electron flow around PSI (CEF-PSI) in tobacco leaves--relative electron fluxes through PSI and PSII determine the magnitude of non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) of Chl fluorescence. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2005; 46:629-37. [PMID: 15701657 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pci067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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We hypothesized that cyclic electron flow around photosystem I (CEF-PSI) participates in the induction of non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) of chlorophyll (Chl) fluorescence when the rate of photosynthetic linear electron flow (LEF) is electron-acceptor limited. To test this hypothesis, the relationships among photosynthesis rate, electron fluxes through both PSI and PSII [Je(PSI) and Je(PSII)] and Chl fluorescence parameters were analyzed simultaneously in intact leaves of tobacco plants at several light intensities and partial pressures of ambient CO2 (Ca). At low light intensities, decreasing Ca lowered the photosynthesis rate, but Je(PSI) and Je(PSII) remained constant. Je(PSI) was larger than Je(PSII), indicating the existence of CEF-PSI. Increasing the light intensity enhanced photosynthesis and both Je(PSI) and Je (PSII). Je(PSI)/Je(PSII) also increased at high light and at high light and low Ca combined, showing a strong, positive relationship with NPQ of Chl fluorescence. These results indicated that CEF-PSI contributed to the dissipation of photon energy in excess of that consumed by photosynthesis by driving NPQ of Chl fluorescence. The main physiological function of CEF-PSI in photosynthesis of higher plants is discussed.
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- Chikahiro Miyake
- Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth, 9-2 Kizugawadai, Kizu-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-0292 Japan.
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Miyake C, Shinzaki Y, Miyata M, Tomizawa KI. Enhancement of cyclic electron flow around PSI at high light and its contribution to the induction of non-photochemical quenching of chl fluorescence in intact leaves of tobacco plants. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2004; 45:1426-33. [PMID: 15564526 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pch163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) of Chl fluorescence is a mechanism for dissipating excess photon energy and is dependent on the formation of a DeltapH across the thylakoid membranes. The role of cyclic electron flow around photosystem I (PSI) (CEF-PSI) in the formation of this DeltapH was elucidated by studying the relationships between O2-evolution rate [V(O2)], quantum yield of both PSII and PSI [Phi(PSII) and Phi(PSI)], and Chl fluorescence parameters measured simultaneously in intact leaves of tobacco plants in CO2-saturated air. Although increases in light intensity raised V(O2) and the relative electron fluxes through both PSII and PSI [Phi(PSII) x PFD and Phi(PSI) x PFD] only Phi(PSI) x PFD continued to increase after V(O2) and Phi(PSII) x PFD became light saturated. These results revealed the activity of an electron transport reaction in PSI not related to photosynthetic linear electron flow (LEF), namely CEF-PSI. NPQ of Chl fluorescence drastically increased after Phi(PSII) x PFD became light saturated and the values of NPQ correlated positively with the relative activity of CEF-PSI. At low temperatures, the light-saturation point of Phi(PSII) x PFD was lower than that of Phi(PSI) x PFD and NPQ was high. On the other hand, at high temperatures, the light-dependence curves of Phi(PSII) x PFD and Phi(PSI) x PFD corresponded completely and NPQ was not induced. These results indicate that limitation of LEF induced CEF-PSI, which, in turn, helped to dissipate excess photon energy by driving NPQ of Chl fluorescence.
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- Chikahiro Miyake
- Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), 9-2 Kizugawadai, Kizu-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-0292 Japan.
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Avenson TJ, Cruz JA, Kramer DM. Modulation of energy-dependent quenching of excitons in antennae of higher plants. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004; 101:5530-5. [PMID: 15064404 PMCID: PMC397417 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0401269101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2003] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Energy-dependent exciton quenching, or q(E), protects the higher plant photosynthetic apparatus from photodamage. Initiation of q(E) involves protonation of violaxanthin deepoxidase and PsbS, a component of the photosystem II antenna complex, as a result of lumen acidification driven by photosynthetic electron transfer. It has become clear that the response of q(E) to linear electron flow, termed "q(E) sensitivity," must be modulated in response to fluctuating environmental conditions. Previously, three mechanisms have been proposed to account for q(E) modulation: (i) the sensitivity of q(E) to the lumen pH is altered; (ii) elevated cyclic electron flow around photosystem I increases proton translocation into the lumen; and (iii) lowering the conductivity of the thylakoid ATP synthase to protons (g(H+)) allows formation of a larger steady-state proton motive force (pmf). Kinetic analysis of the electrochromic shift of intrinsic thylakoid pigments, a linear indicator of transthylakoid electric field component, suggests that, when CO(2) alone was lowered from 350 ppm to 50 ppm CO(2), modulation of q(E) sensitivity could be explained solely by changes in conductivity. Lowering both CO(2) (to 50 ppm) and O(2) (to 1%) resulted in an additional increase in q(E) sensitivity that could not be explained by changes in conductivity or cyclic electron flow associated with photosystem I. Evidence is presented for a fourth mechanism, in which changes in q(E) sensitivity result from variable partitioning of proton motive force into the electric field and pH gradient components. The implications of this mechanism for the storage of proton motive force and the regulation of the light reactions are discussed.
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- Thomas J Avenson
- Institute of Biological Chemistry, 289 Clark Hall, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6340, USA
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Joliot P, Joliot A. Cyclic electron transfer in plant leaf. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002; 99:10209-14. [PMID: 12119384 PMCID: PMC126649 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.102306999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 249] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/22/2002] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The turnover of linear and cyclic electron flows has been determined in fragments of dark-adapted spinach leaf by measuring the kinetics of fluorescence yield and of the transmembrane electrical potential changes under saturating illumination. When Photosystem (PS) II is inhibited, a cyclic electron flow around PSI operates transiently at a rate close to the maximum turnover of photosynthesis. When PSII is active, the cyclic flow operates with a similar rate during the first seconds of illumination. The high efficiency of the cyclic pathway implies that the cyclic and the linear transfer chains are structurally isolated one from the other. We propose that the cyclic pathway operates within a supercomplex including one PSI, one cytochrome bf complex, one plastocyanin, and one ferredoxin. The cyclic process induces the synthesis of ATP needed for the activation of the Benson-Calvin cycle. A fraction of PSI ( approximately 50%), not included in the supercomplexes, participates in the linear pathway. The illumination would induce a dissociation of the supercomplexes that progressively increases the fraction of PSI involved in the linear pathway.
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- Pierre Joliot
- Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Propre de Recherche 1261, 13, Rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France.
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Joët T, Cournac L, Peltier G, Havaux M. Cyclic electron flow around photosystem I in C(3) plants. In vivo control by the redox state of chloroplasts and involvement of the NADH-dehydrogenase complex. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2002; 128:760-9. [PMID: 11842179 PMCID: PMC148937 DOI: 10.1104/pp.010775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2001] [Accepted: 11/07/2001] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Cyclic electron flow around photosystem (PS) I has been widely described in vitro in chloroplasts or thylakoids isolated from C(3) plant leaves, but its occurrence in vivo is still a matter of debate. Photoacoustic spectroscopy and kinetic spectrophotometry were used to analyze cyclic PS I activity in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum cv Petit Havana) leaf discs illuminated with far-red light. Only a very weak activity was measured in air with both techniques. When leaf discs were placed in anaerobiosis, a high and rapid cyclic PS I activity was measured. The maximal energy storage in far-red light increased to 30% to 50%, and the half-time of the P(700) re-reduction in the dark decreased to around 400 ms; these values are comparable with those measured in cyanobacteria and C(4) plant leaves in aerobiosis. The stimulatory effect of anaerobiosis was mimicked by infiltrating leaves with inhibitors of mitochondrial respiration or of the chlororespiratory oxidase, therefore, showing that changes in the redox state of intersystem electron carriers tightly control the rate of PS I-driven cyclic electron flow in vivo. Measurements of energy storage at different modulation frequencies of far-red light showed that anaerobiosis-induced cyclic PS I activity in leaves of a tobacco mutant deficient in the plastid Ndh complex was kinetically different from that of the wild type, the cycle being slower in the former leaves. We conclude that the Ndh complex is required for rapid electron cycling around PS I.
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- Thierry Joët
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique/Cadarache, Département d'Ecophysiologie Végétale et de Microbiologie, Unité Mixte de Recherche 163 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France
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Joët T, Cournac L, Horvath EM, Medgyesy P, Peltier G. Increased sensitivity of photosynthesis to antimycin A induced by inactivation of the chloroplast ndhB gene. Evidence for a participation of the NADH-dehydrogenase complex to cyclic electron flow around photosystem I. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2001; 125:1919-29. [PMID: 11299371 PMCID: PMC88847 DOI: 10.1104/pp.125.4.1919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2000] [Revised: 10/05/2000] [Accepted: 12/08/2000] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum var Petit Havana) ndhB-inactivated mutants (ndhB-) obtained by plastid transformation (E.M. Horvath, S.O. Peter, T. Joët, D. Rumeau, L. Cournac, G.V. Horvath, T.A. Kavanagh, C. Schäfer, G. Peltier, P. MedgyesyHorvath [2000] Plant Physiol 123: 1337-1350) were used to study the role of the NADH-dehydrogenase complex (NDH) during photosynthesis and particularly the involvement of this complex in cyclic electron flow around photosystem I (PSI). Photosynthetic activity was determined on leaf discs by measuring CO2 exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence quenchings during a dark-to-light transition. In the absence of treatment, both non-photochemical and photochemical fluorescence quenchings were similar in ndhB- and wild type (WT). When leaf discs were treated with 5 microM antimycin A, an inhibitor of cyclic electron flow around PSI, both quenchings were strongly affected. At steady state, maximum photosynthetic electron transport activity was inhibited by 20% in WT and by 50% in ndhB-. Under non-photorespiratory conditions (2% O2, 2,500 microL x L(-1) CO2), antimycin A had no effect on photosynthetic activity of WT, whereas a 30% inhibition was observed both on quantum yield of photosynthesis assayed by chlorophyll fluorescence and on CO2 assimilation in ndhB-. The effect of antimycin A on ndhB- could not be mimicked by myxothiazol, an inhibitor of the mitochondrial cytochrome bc1 complex, therefore showing that it is not related to an inhibition of the mitochondrial electron transport chain but rather to an inhibition of cyclic electron flow around PSI. We conclude to the existence of two different pathways of cyclic electron flow operating around PSI in higher plant chloroplasts. One of these pathways, sensitive to antimycin A, probably involves ferredoxin plastoquinone reductase, whereas the other involves the NDH complex. The absence of visible phenotype in ndhB- plants under normal conditions is explained by the complement of these two pathways in the supply of extra-ATP for photosynthesis.
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- T Joët
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Cadarache, Laboratoire d'Ecophysiologie de la Photosynthèse, Département d'Ecophysiologie Végétale et Microbiologie, Bât. 161, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France
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Allen DJ, Ort DR. Impacts of chilling temperatures on photosynthesis in warm-climate plants. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2001; 6:36-42. [PMID: 11164376 DOI: 10.1016/s1360-1385(00)01808-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 364] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Photosynthesis in warm-climate plants is substantially reduced after chilling. Tropical and subtropical species offer the opportunity to study the effects of low temperature on photosynthetic processes undisguised by the myriad of protective responses observed in temperate species. In this article, we highlight the primary components of photosynthesis that are affected by a short chill, in both the dark and the light, and discuss what is known of the mechanisms involved. Recent work implicates impaired redox and circadian regulation among other processes.
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- D J Allen
- Photosynthesis Research Unit of USDA/ARS and Department Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, 61801-3838, USA.
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Sacksteder CA, Kanazawa A, Jacoby ME, Kramer DM. The proton to electron stoichiometry of steady-state photosynthesis in living plants: A proton-pumping Q cycle is continuously engaged. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2000; 97:14283-8. [PMID: 11121034 PMCID: PMC18910 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.26.14283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2000] [Accepted: 10/23/2000] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A noninvasive technique is introduced with which relative proton to electron stoichiometries (H(+)/e(-) ratios) for photosynthetic electron transfer can be obtained from leaves of living plants under steady-state illumination. Both electron and proton transfer fluxes were estimated by a modification of our previously reported dark-interval relaxation kinetics (DIRK) analysis, in which processes that occur upon rapid shuttering of the actinic light are analyzed. Rates of turnover of linear electron transfer through the cytochrome (cyt) b(6)f complex were estimated by measuring the DIRK signals associated with reduction of cyt f and P(700). The rates of proton pumping through the electron transfer chain and the CF(O)-CF(1) ATP synthase (ATPase) were estimated by measuring the DIRK signals associated with the electrochromic shifting of pigments in the light-harvesting complexes. Electron transfer fluxes were also estimated by analysis of saturation pulse-induced changes in chlorophyll a fluorescence yield. It was shown that the H(+)/e(-) ratio, with respect to both cyt b(6)f complex and photosystem (PS) II turnover, was constant under low to saturating illumination in intact tobacco leaves. Because a H(+)/e(-) ratio of 3 at a low light is generally accepted, we infer that this ratio is maintained under conditions of normal (unstressed) photosynthesis, implying a continuously engaged, proton-pumping Q cycle at the cyt b(6)f complex.
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- C A Sacksteder
- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University, 289 Clark Hall, Pullman, WA 99164-6340, USA
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Proton to electron stoichiometry in electron transport of spinach thylakoids. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1999; 1410:248-61. [PMID: 10082791 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(99)00003-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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According to the concept of the Q-cycle, the H+/e- ratio of the electron transport chain of thylakoids can be raised from 2 to 3 by means of the rereduction of plastoquinone across the cytochrome b6f complex. In order to investigate the H+/e- ratio we compared stationary rates of electron transport and proton translocation in spinach thylakoids both in the presence of the artificial electron acceptor ferricyanide and in the presence of the natural acceptor system ferredoxin+NADP. The results may be summarised as follows: (1) a variability of the H+/e- ratio occurs with either acceptor. H+/e- ratios of 3 (or even higher in the case of the natural acceptor system, see below) are decreased towards 2 if strong light intensity and low membrane permeability are employed. Mechanistically this could be explained by proton channels connecting the plastoquinol binding site alternatively to the lumenal or stromal side of the cytochrome b6f complex, giving rise to a proton slip reaction at high transmembrane DeltapH. In this slip reaction protons are deposited on the stromal instead of the lumenal side. In addition to the pH effect there seems to be a contribution of the redox state of the plastoquinone pool to the control of proton translocation; switching over to stromal proton deposition is favoured when the reduced state of plastoquinone becomes dominant. (2) In the presence of NADP a competition of both NADP and oxygen for the electrons supplied by photosystem I takes place, inducing a general increase of the H+/e- ratios above the values obtained with ferricyanide. The implications with respect to the adjustment of a proper ATP/NADPH ratio for CO2 reduction are discussed.
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