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Santabarbara S, Agostini A, Petrova AA, Bortolus M, Casazza AP, Carbonera D. Chlorophyll triplet states in thylakoid membranes of Acaryochloris marina. Evidence for a triplet state sitting on the photosystem I primary donor populated by intersystem crossing. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2024; 159:133-152. [PMID: 37191762 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-023-01023-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2023] [Accepted: 04/27/2023] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Photo-induced triplet states in the thylakoid membranes isolated from the cyanobacterium Acaryocholoris marina, that harbours Chlorophyll (Chl) d as its main chromophore, have been investigated by Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance (ODMR) and time-resolved Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (TR-EPR). Thylakoids were subjected to treatments aimed at poising the redox state of the terminal electron transfer acceptors and donors of Photosystem II (PSII) and Photosystem I (PSI), respectively. Under ambient redox conditions, four Chl d triplet populations were detectable, identifiable by their characteristic zero field splitting parameters, after deconvolution of the Fluorescence Detected Magnetic Resonance (FDMR) spectra. Illumination in the presence of the redox mediator N,N,N',N'-Tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine (TMPD) and sodium ascorbate at room temperature led to a redistribution of the triplet populations, with T3 (|D|= 0.0245 cm-1, |E|= 0.0042 cm-1) becoming dominant and increasing in intensity with respect to untreated samples. A second triplet population (T4, |D|= 0.0248 cm-1, |E|= 0.0040 cm-1) having an intensity ratio of about 1:4 with respect to T3 was also detectable after illumination in the presence of TMPD and ascorbate. The microwave-induced Triplet-minus-Singlet spectrum acquired at the maximum of the |D|-|E| transition (610 MHz) displays a broad minimum at 740 nm, accompanied by a set of complex spectral features that overall resemble, despite showing further fine spectral structure, the previously reported Triplet-minus-Singlet spectrum attributed to the recombination triplet of PSI reaction centre,3 P 740 [Schenderlein M, Çetin M, Barber J, et al. Spectroscopic studies of the chlorophyll d containing photosystem I from the cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina. Biochim Biophys Acta 1777:1400-1408]. However, TR-EPR experiments indicate that this triplet displays an eaeaea electron spin polarisation pattern which is characteristic of triplet sublevels populated by intersystem crossing rather than recombination, for which an aeeaae polarisation pattern is expected instead. It is proposed that the observed triplet, which leads to the bleaching of the P740 singlet state, sits on the PSI reaction centre.
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- Stefano Santabarbara
- Photosynthesis Research Unit, Centro Studi Sulla Biologia Cellulare e Molecolare delle Piante, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, Via Celoria 26, 20133, Milan, Italy.
- Istituto di Biologia e Biotecnologia Agraria, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Bassini 15a, 20133, Milan, Italy.
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, Università di Padova, Via Marzolo 1, 35131, Padua, Italy
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- Photosynthesis Research Unit, Centro Studi Sulla Biologia Cellulare e Molecolare delle Piante, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, Via Celoria 26, 20133, Milan, Italy
- A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physical-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskye Gory 1 Building 40, Moscow, Russia, 119992
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, Università di Padova, Via Marzolo 1, 35131, Padua, Italy
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- Istituto di Biologia e Biotecnologia Agraria, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Bassini 15a, 20133, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, Università di Padova, Via Marzolo 1, 35131, Padua, Italy.
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Mattila H, Mishra S, Tyystjärvi T, Tyystjärvi E. Singlet oxygen production by photosystem II is caused by misses of the oxygen evolving complex. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2023; 237:113-125. [PMID: 36161283 PMCID: PMC10092662 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2022] [Accepted: 09/10/2022] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Singlet oxygen (1 O2 ) is a harmful species that functions also as a signaling molecule. In chloroplasts, 1 O2 is produced via charge recombination reactions in photosystem II, but which recombination pathway(s) produce triplet Chl and 1 O2 remains open. Furthermore, the role of 1 O2 in photoinhibition is not clear. We compared temperature dependences of 1 O2 production, photoinhibition, and recombination pathways. 1 O2 production by pumpkin thylakoids increased from -2 to +35°C, ruling out recombination of the primary charge pair as a main contributor. S2 QA - or S2 QB - recombination pathways, in turn, had too steep temperature dependences. Instead, the temperature dependence of 1 O2 production matched that of misses (failures of the oxygen (O2 ) evolving complex to advance an S-state). Photoinhibition in vitro and in vivo (also in Synechocystis), and in the presence or absence of O2 , had the same temperature dependence, but ultraviolet (UV)-radiation-caused photoinhibition showed a weaker temperature response. We suggest that the miss-associated recombination of P680 + QA - is the main producer of 1 O2 . Our results indicate three parallel photoinhibition mechanisms. The manganese mechanism dominates in UV radiation but also functions in white light. Mechanisms that depend on light absorption by Chls, having 1 O2 or long-lived P680 + as damaging agents, dominate in red light.
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- Heta Mattila
- Department of Life Technologies/Molecular Plant BiologyUniversity of TurkuFI‐20014TurkuFinland
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- Department of Life Technologies/Molecular Plant BiologyUniversity of TurkuFI‐20014TurkuFinland
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- Department of Life Technologies/Molecular Plant BiologyUniversity of TurkuFI‐20014TurkuFinland
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- Department of Life Technologies/Molecular Plant BiologyUniversity of TurkuFI‐20014TurkuFinland
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Advances in the Understanding of the Lifecycle of Photosystem II. Microorganisms 2022; 10:microorganisms10050836. [PMID: 35630282 PMCID: PMC9145668 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10050836] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2022] [Revised: 04/14/2022] [Accepted: 04/16/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Photosystem II is a light-driven water-plastoquinone oxidoreductase present in cyanobacteria, algae and plants. It produces molecular oxygen and protons to drive ATP synthesis, fueling life on Earth. As a multi-subunit membrane-protein-pigment complex, Photosystem II undergoes a dynamic cycle of synthesis, damage, and repair known as the Photosystem II lifecycle, to maintain a high level of photosynthetic activity at the cellular level. Cyanobacteria, oxygenic photosynthetic bacteria, are frequently used as model organisms to study oxygenic photosynthetic processes due to their ease of growth and genetic manipulation. The cyanobacterial PSII structure and function have been well-characterized, but its lifecycle is under active investigation. In this review, advances in studying the lifecycle of Photosystem II in cyanobacteria will be discussed, with a particular emphasis on new structural findings enabled by cryo-electron microscopy. These structural findings complement a rich and growing body of biochemical and molecular biology research into Photosystem II assembly and repair.
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Gruber JM, Xu P, Chmeliov J, Krüger TPJ, Alexandre MTA, Valkunas L, Croce R, van Grondelle R. Dynamic quenching in single photosystem II supercomplexes. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:25852-60. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp05493e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Time-resolved fluorescence measurements of single PSII supercomplexes to investigate blinking and dynamic quenching in the context of non-photochemical quenching (NPQ).
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- J. Michael Gruber
- Department of Biophysics
- Faculty of Sciences
- Vrije Universiteit
- 1081HV Amsterdam
- The Netherlands
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- Department of Biophysics
- Faculty of Sciences
- Vrije Universiteit
- 1081HV Amsterdam
- The Netherlands
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- Department of Theoretical Physics
- Faculty of Physics
- Vilnius University
- LT-10222 Vilnius
- Lithuania
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- Department of Physics
- Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
- University of Pretoria
- Hatfield 0028
- South Africa
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- Department of Theoretical Physics
- Faculty of Physics
- Vilnius University
- LT-10222 Vilnius
- Lithuania
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- Department of Biophysics
- Faculty of Sciences
- Vrije Universiteit
- 1081HV Amsterdam
- The Netherlands
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- Department of Biophysics
- Faculty of Sciences
- Vrije Universiteit
- 1081HV Amsterdam
- The Netherlands
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Caffarri S, Tibiletti T, Jennings RC, Santabarbara S. A comparison between plant photosystem I and photosystem II architecture and functioning. Curr Protein Pept Sci 2015; 15:296-331. [PMID: 24678674 PMCID: PMC4030627 DOI: 10.2174/1389203715666140327102218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2013] [Revised: 11/22/2013] [Accepted: 03/16/2014] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Oxygenic photosynthesis is indispensable both for the development and maintenance of life on earth by converting
light energy into chemical energy and by producing molecular oxygen and consuming carbon dioxide. This latter
process has been responsible for reducing the CO2 from its very high levels in the primitive atmosphere to the present low
levels and thus reducing global temperatures to levels conducive to the development of life. Photosystem I and photosystem
II are the two multi-protein complexes that contain the pigments necessary to harvest photons and use light energy to
catalyse the primary photosynthetic endergonic reactions producing high energy compounds. Both photosystems are
highly organised membrane supercomplexes composed of a core complex, containing the reaction centre where electron
transport is initiated, and of a peripheral antenna system, which is important for light harvesting and photosynthetic activity
regulation. If on the one hand both the chemical reactions catalysed by the two photosystems and their detailed structure
are different, on the other hand they share many similarities. In this review we discuss and compare various aspects of
the organisation, functioning and regulation of plant photosystems by comparing them for similarities and differences as
obtained by structural, biochemical and spectroscopic investigations.
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- Laboratoire de Génétique et de Biophysique des Plantes (LGBP), Aix-Marseille Université, Faculté des Sciences de Luminy, 163 Avenue de Luminy, 13009, Marseille, France.
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Habib K, Manikar N, Ansari S, Fatma T. Carbaryl stress induced cellular changes in Calothrix brevissima. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2013; 20:862-871. [PMID: 23054783 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-012-1217-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2012] [Accepted: 09/19/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Cyanobacterial biofertilizers are affected by paddy field pesticides as nontarget organism. Carbaryl is a carbamate pesticide and is commonly used against rice thrip pest in paddy fields. In the present work, cellular changes caused by exposure of the cyanobacterial biofertilizer namely Calothrix brevissima to carbaryl were studied with special reference to fatty acids, electrolyte leakage, sulfur metabolism, and osmolytes. To study the toxic effect of carbaryl, the test cyanobacterium was exposed to varying concentrations of pesticide (0, 10, 20, 30, and 40 mg L(-1)) for biochemical analyses. At 40 mg L(-1) carbaryl, polyunsaturated fatty acids were reduced by 32 % and membrane leakage was increased by 27 % suggesting that free radical-mediated lipid peroxidation took place. The sulfur-containing metabolites namely cysteine, cystine, and methionine were increased by 79, 64, and 52 %, respectively. The enzymatic and nonenzymatic antioxidants namely glutathione S-transferase, glutathione reductase, reduced glutathione, and oxidized glutathione were increased to 56, 71, 72, and 60 %, respectively. Osmolytes that serve as stress enzyme protectors as well as nonenzymatic free radical scavenger were also increased, indicating their protective nature in context with carbaryl-induced stress. The respective increase in mannitol, trehalose, and glycogen were 158, 98, and 159 %. In C. brevissima, carbaryl-induced membrane leakage was counteracted by increasing enzymatic and nonenzymatic parameters that helped in scavenging free radicals.
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- Khalid Habib
- Department of Biosciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, Central University, New Delhi 110025, India.
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McConnell MD, Cowgill JB, Baker PL, Rappaport F, Redding KE. Double reduction of plastoquinone to plastoquinol in photosystem 1. Biochemistry 2011; 50:11034-46. [PMID: 22103567 DOI: 10.1021/bi201131r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In Photosystem 1 (PS1), phylloquinone (PhQ) acts as a secondary electron acceptor from chlorophyll ec(3) and also as an electron donor to the iron-sulfur cluster F(X). PS1 possesses two virtually equivalent branches of electron transfer (ET) cofactors from P(700) to F(X), and the lifetime of the semiquinone intermediate displays biphasic kinetics, reflecting ET along the two different branches. PhQ in PS1 serves only as an intermediate in ET and is not normally fully reduced to the quinol form. This is in contrast to PS2, in which plastoquinone (PQ) is doubly reduced to plastoquinol (PQH(2)) as the terminal electron acceptor. We purified PS1 particles from the menD1 mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii that cannot synthesize PhQ, resulting in replacement of PhQ by PQ in the quinone-binding pocket. The magnitude of the stable flash-induced P(700)(+) signal of menD1 PS1, but not wild-type PS1, decreased during a train of laser flashes, as it was replaced by a ~30 ns back-reaction from the preceding radical pair (P(700)(+)A(0)(-)). We show that this process of photoinactivation is due to double reduction of PQ in the menD1 PS1 and have characterized the process. It is accelerated at lower pH, consistent with a rate-limiting protonation step. Moreover, a point mutation (PsaA-L722T) in the PhQ(A) site that accelerates ET to F(X) ~2-fold, likely by weakening the sole H-bond to PhQ(A), also accelerates the photoinactivation process. The addition of exogenous PhQ can restore activity to photoinactivated PS1 and confer resistance to further photoinactivation. This process also occurs with PS1 purified from the menB PhQ biosynthesis mutant of Synechocystis PCC 6803, demonstrating that it is a general phenomenon in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic PS1.
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- Michael D McConnell
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for Bioenergy and Photosynthesis, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, United States.
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Molecular mechanisms of production and scavenging of reactive oxygen species by photosystem II. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2011; 1817:218-31. [PMID: 21641332 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2011.05.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 177] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2011] [Revised: 05/07/2011] [Accepted: 05/18/2011] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Photosystem II (PSII) is a multisubunit protein complex in cyanobacteria, algae and plants that use light energy for oxidation of water and reduction of plastoquinone. The conversion of excitation energy absorbed by chlorophylls into the energy of separated charges and subsequent water-plastoquinone oxidoreductase activity are inadvertently coupled with the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Singlet oxygen is generated by the excitation energy transfer from triplet chlorophyll formed by the intersystem crossing from singlet chlorophyll and the charge recombination of separated charges in the PSII antenna complex and reaction center of PSII, respectively. Apart to the energy transfer, the electron transport associated with the reduction of plastoquinone and the oxidation of water is linked to the formation of superoxide anion radical, hydrogen peroxide and hydroxyl radical. To protect PSII pigments, proteins and lipids against the oxidative damage, PSII evolved a highly efficient antioxidant defense system comprising either a non-enzymatic (prenyllipids such as carotenoids and prenylquinols) or an enzymatic (superoxide dismutase and catalase) scavengers. It is pointed out here that both the formation and the scavenging of ROS are controlled by the energy level and the redox potential of the excitation energy transfer and the electron transport carries, respectively. The review is focused on the mechanistic aspects of ROS production and scavenging by PSII. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Photosystem II.
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Vass I. Molecular mechanisms of photodamage in the Photosystem II complex. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2011; 1817:209-17. [PMID: 21565163 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2011.04.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 225] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2011] [Revised: 04/06/2011] [Accepted: 04/18/2011] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Light induced damage of the photosynthetic apparatus is an important and highly complex phenomenon, which affects primarily the Photosystem II complex. Here the author summarizes the current state of understanding of the molecular mechanisms, which are involved in the light induced inactivation of Photosystem II electron transport together with the relevant mechanisms of photoprotection. Short wavelength ultraviolet radiation impairs primarily the Mn₄Ca catalytic site of the water oxidizing complex with additional effects on the quinone electron acceptors and tyrosine donors of PSII. The main mechanism of photodamage by visible light appears to be mediated by acceptor side modifications, which develop under conditions of excess excitation in which the capacity of light-independent photosynthetic processes limits the utilization of electrons produced in the initial photoreactions. This situation of excess excitation facilitates the reduction of intersystem electron carriers and Photosystem II acceptors, and thereby induces the formation of reactive oxygen species, especially singlet oxygen whose production is sensitized by triplet chlorophyll formation in the reaction center of Photosystem II. The highly reactive singlet oxygen and other reactive oxygen species, such as H₂O₂ and O₂⁻, which can also be formed in Photosystem II initiate damage of electron transport components and protein structure. In parallel with the excess excitation dependent mechanism of photodamage inactivation of the Mn₄Ca cluster by visible light may also occur, which impairs electron transfer through the Photosystem II complex and initiates further functional and structural damage of the reaction center via formation of highly oxidizing radicals, such as P 680(+) and Tyr-Z(+). However, the available data do not support the hypothesis that the Mn-dependent mechanism would be the exclusive or dominating pathway of photodamage in the visible spectral range. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Photosystem II.
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- Imre Vass
- Institute of Plant Biology, Biology Research Center, Szeged, Hungary.
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Vass I. Role of charge recombination processes in photodamage and photoprotection of the photosystem II complex. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2011; 142:6-16. [PMID: 21288250 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2011.01454.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Light-induced damage of the photosynthetic apparatus is an important and complex phenomenon, which affects primarily the photosystem II (PSII) complex. Here, the author summarizes the current state of understanding, which concerns the role of charge recombination reactions in photodamage and photoprotection. The main mechanism of photodamage induced by visible light appears to be mediated by acceptor side modifications, which develop under light intensity conditions when the capacity of light-independent photosynthetic processes limits the utilization of electrons produced in the initial photoreactions. This situation facilitates triplet chlorophyll formation and singlet oxygen production in the reaction center of PSII, which initiates the damage of electron transport components and protein structure. This mechanism is an important, but not exclusive, pathway of photodamage, and light-induced inactivation of the Mn cluster of water oxidation may occur in parallel with the singlet oxygen-dependent pathway.
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- Imre Vass
- Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Center, Szeged, Hungary.
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Pospísil P. Production of reactive oxygen species by photosystem II. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2009; 1787:1151-60. [PMID: 19463778 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2009.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 218] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2008] [Revised: 05/05/2009] [Accepted: 05/07/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Photosysthetic cleavage of water molecules to molecular oxygen is a crucial process for all aerobic life on the Earth. Light-driven oxidation of water occurs in photosystem II (PSII) - a pigment-protein complex embedded in the thylakoid membrane of plants, algae and cyanobacteria. Electron transport across the thylakoid membrane terminated by NADPH and ATP formation is inadvertently coupled with the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Reactive oxygen species are mainly produced by photosystem I; however, under certain circumstances, PSII contributes to the overall formation of ROS in the thylakoid membrane. Under limitation of electron transport reaction between both photosystems, photoreduction of molecular oxygen by the reducing side of PSII generates a superoxide anion radical, its dismutation to hydrogen peroxide and the subsequent formation of a hydroxyl radical terminates the overall process of ROS formation on the PSII electron acceptor side. On the PSII electron donor side, partial or complete inhibition of enzymatic activity of the water-splitting manganese complex is coupled with incomplete oxidation of water to hydrogen peroxide. The review points out the mechanistic aspects in the production of ROS on both the electron acceptor and electron donor side of PSII.
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- Pavel Pospísil
- Laboratory of Biophysics, Department of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
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Hideg ÉV, Vass I. SINGLET OXYGEN IS NOT PRODUCED IN PHOTOSYSTEM I UNDER PHOTOINHIBITORY CONDITIONS. Photochem Photobiol 2008. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1995.tb09162.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Santabarbara S, Cazzalini I, Rivadossi A, Garlaschi FM, Zucchelli G, Jennings RC. Photoinhibition in vivo and in vitro Involves Weakly Coupled Chlorophyll-Protein Complexes†¶. Photochem Photobiol 2007. [DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2002)0750613pivaiv2.0.co2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Santabarbara S, Agostini G, Casazza AP, Syme CD, Heathcote P, Böhles F, Evans MC, Jennings RC, Carbonera D. Chlorophyll triplet states associated with Photosystem I and Photosystem II in thylakoids of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2007; 1767:88-105. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2006.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2006] [Revised: 10/16/2006] [Accepted: 10/17/2006] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Santabarbara S, Jennings R, Carbonera D. Analysis of photosystem II triplet states in thylakoids by fluorescence detected magnetic resonance in relation to the redox state of the primary quinone acceptor QA. Chem Phys 2003. [DOI: 10.1016/s0301-0104(03)00279-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Miyake C, Okamura M. Cyclic electron flow within PSII protects PSII from its photoinhibition in thylakoid membranes from spinach chloroplasts. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2003; 44:457-62. [PMID: 12721388 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcg053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Cyclic electron flow within PSII (CEF-PSII) was proven to alleviate the photoinhibition of PSII. We set the conditions where CEF-PSII functioned or did not, by adding nigericin to the reaction mixture for the dissipation of DeltapH across thylakoid membranes, and then the thylakoids were illuminated. When CEF-PSII did not function and the activity of linear electron flow (LEF) was low, light-treated thylakoid membranes largely lost the activity of LEF. The inactivation of LEF was due to the loss of the activity of PSII, but not that of PSI. The inactivation of PSII was suppressed, when CEF-PSII functioned or LEF was enhanced. These results imply that CEF-PSII contributes to the protection of PSII from its photoinhibition with LEF, as an electron sink.
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- Chikahiro Miyake
- Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University, Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8581 Japan.
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Kanazawa A, Kramer DM. In vivo modulation of nonphotochemical exciton quenching (NPQ) by regulation of the chloroplast ATP synthase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002; 99:12789-94. [PMID: 12192092 PMCID: PMC130538 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.182427499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 222] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2002] [Accepted: 07/19/2002] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ) of excitation energy, which protects higher plant photosynthetic machinery from photodamage, is triggered by acidification of the thylakoid lumen as a result of light-induced proton pumping, which also drives the synthesis of ATP. It is clear that the sensitivity of NPQ is modulated in response to changing physiological conditions, but the mechanism for this modulation has remained unclear. Evidence is presented that, in intact tobacco or Arabidopsis leaves, NPQ modulation in response to changing CO(2) levels occurs predominantly by alterations in the conductivity of the CF(O)-CF(1) ATP synthase to protons (g(H)(+)). At a given proton flux, decreasing g(H)(+) will increase transthylakoid proton motive force (pmf), thus lowering lumen pH and contributing to the activation of NPQ. It was found that an approximately 5-fold decrease in g(H)(+) could account for the majority of NPQ modulation as atmospheric CO(2) was decreased from 2,000 ppm to 0 ppm. Data are presented that g(H)(+) is kinetically controlled, rather than imposed thermodynamically by buildup of DeltaG(ATP). Further results suggest that the redox state of the ATP synthase gamma-subunit thiols is not responsible for altering g(H)(+). A working model is proposed wherein g(H)(+) is modulated by stromal metabolite levels, possibly by inorganic phosphate.
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- Atsuko Kanazawa
- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA
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Santabarbara S, Cazzalini I, Rivadossi A, Garlaschi FM, Zucchelli G, Jennings RC. Photoinhibition in vivo and in vitro involves weakly coupled chlorophyll-protein complexes. Photochem Photobiol 2002; 75:613-8. [PMID: 12081323 DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2002)075<0613:pivaiv>2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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In the present study the analysis of the relation between the excited state population in the photosystem II (PSII) antenna and photoinactivation has been extended from an in vitro system, isolated thylakoids, to an in vivo system, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells. The results indicate that the excited state quenching by an added singlet quencher induces maximal protection against photoinhibition of about 30% of that expected on the basis of the observed light intensity-treatment time reciprocity rule. Similar results, obtained previously with thylakoids, have been interpreted in terms of damaged or incorrectly assembled complexes that play an important role in photoinhibition in the thylakoid membranes (Santabarbara, S., K. Neverov, F. M. Garlaschi, G. Zucchelli and R. C. Jennings [2001] Involvement of uncoupled antenna chlorophylls in photoinhibition in thylakoids. FEBS Lett. 491, 109-113.). In an attempt to better define this aspect, the photoinhibition action spectra were determined for mutant barley thylakoids, lacking the chlorophyll (Chl) a-b complexes of the outer antenna, and for its wild type. The results indicate that in both systems the action spectra are significantly blueshifted (2-4 nm) and are broader than the PSII absorption in the membranes. These data are interpreted in terms of a heterogeneous population of outer and inner antenna pigment-protein complexes that contain significant levels of uncoupled Chl.
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- Stefano Santabarbara
- Dipartimento di Biologia, Centro C.N.R. Biologia Cellulare e Molecolare delle Piante, Università di Milano, Italy
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Szabò I, Rigoni F, Bianchetti M, Carbonera D, Pierantoni F, Seraglia R, Segalla A, Giacometti GM. Isolation and characterization of photosystem II subcomplexes from cyanobacteria lacking photosystem I. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 2001; 268:5129-34. [PMID: 11589704 DOI: 10.1046/j.0014-2956.2001.02441.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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A photosystem II (PSII) core complex lacking the internal antenna CP43 protein was isolated from the photosystem II of Synechocystis PCC6803, which lacks photosystem I (PSI). CP47-RC and reaction centre (RCII) complexes were also obtained in a single procedure by direct solubilization of whole thylakoid membranes. The CP47-RC subcore complex was characterized by SDS/PAGE, immunoblotting, MALDI MS, visible and fluorescence spectroscopy, and absorption detected magnetic resonance. The purity and functionality of RCII was also assayed. These preparations may be useful for mutational analysis of PSII RC and CP47-RC in studying primary reactions of oxygenic photosynthesis.
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- I Szabò
- Department of Biology, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy
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Hideg É É, Ogawa K, Kálai T, Hideg K. Singlet oxygen imaging in Arabidopsis thaliana leaves under photoinhibition by excess photosynthetically active radiation. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2001; 112:10-14. [PMID: 11319009 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.2001.1120102.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Arabidopsis thaliana leaves were infiltrated with DanePy (3-(N-diethylaminoethyl)-N-dansyl)aminomethyl-2,5-dihydro-2,2,5,5-tetramethyl-1H-pyrrole), a double, fluorescent and spin sensor of singlet oxygen. DanePy fluorescence was imaged by laser scanning microscopy. We found that DanePy penetrated into chloroplasts but did not alter the functioning of the photosynthetic electron transport as assessed by chlorophyll fluorescence induction. In imaging, DanePy fluorescence was well distinct from chlorophyll fluorescence. Photoinhibition by excess photosynthetically active radiation caused quenching of DanePy fluorescence in the chloroplasts but not in other cell compartments. When leaves were infiltrated with dansyl, the fluorescent group in DanePy, there was no fluorescence quenching during photoinhibition. This shows that the fluorescence quenching of DanePy is caused by the conversion of its pyrrol group into nitroxide, i.e. it was caused by the reaction of singlet oxygen with the double sensor and not by artifacts. These data provide direct experimental evidence for the localization of singlet oxygen production to chloroplasts in vivo.
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- Éva Hideg É
- Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Center, H-6701 Szeged, PO Box 521, Hungary; Research Institute for Biological Sciences Okayama (RIBS), 7549-1 Yoshikawa, Kayou-cho, 716-1241 Okayama, Japan; Department of Organic and Medicinal Chemistry, University of Pécs, H-7643 Pécs, PO Box 99, Hungary
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Hideg E, Kálai T, Hideg K, Vass I. Do oxidative stress conditions impairing photosynthesis in the light manifest as photoinhibition? Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2000; 355:1511-6. [PMID: 11128004 PMCID: PMC1692868 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2000.0711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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We compared the effect of photoinhibition by excess photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), UV-B irradiation combined with PAR, low temperature stress and paraquat treatment on photosystem (PS) II. Although the experimental conditions ensured that the four studied stress conditions resulted in approximately the same extent of PS II inactivation, they clearly followed different molecular mechanisms. Our results show that singlet oxygen production in inactivated PS II reaction centres is a unique characteristic of photoinhibition by excess PAR. Neither the accumulation of inactive PS II reaction centres (as in UV-B or chilling stress), nor photo-oxidative damage of PS II (as in paraquat stress) is able to produce the special oxidizing conditions characteristic of acceptor-side-induced photoinhibition.
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- E Hideg
- Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary
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Hideg E, Vass I, Kálai T, Hideg K. Singlet oxygen detection with sterically hindered amine derivatives in plants under light stress. Methods Enzymol 2000; 319:77-85. [PMID: 10907501 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(00)19010-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- E Hideg
- Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Center, Szeged, Hungary
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Keren N, Berg A, van Kan PJ, Levanon H, Ohad I. Mechanism of photosystem II photoinactivation and D1 protein degradation at low light: the role of back electron flow. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1997; 94:1579-84. [PMID: 11038602 PMCID: PMC19834 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.4.1579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 248] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/1996] [Accepted: 12/06/1996] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Light intensities that limit electron flow induce rapid degradation of the photosystem II (PSII) reaction center D1 protein. The mechanism of this phenomenon is not known. We propose that at low excitation rates back electron flow and charge recombination between the QB*- or QA*- semiquinone acceptors and the oxidized S(2,3) states of the PSII donor side may cause oxidative damage via generation of active oxygen species. Therefore, damage per photochemical event should increase with decreasing rates of PSII excitation. To test this hypothesis, the effect of the dark interval between single turnover flashes on the inactivation of water oxidation, charge separation and recombination, and the degradation of D1 protein were determined in spinach thylakoids. PSII inactivation per flash increases as the dark interval between the flashes increases, and a plateau is reached at dark intervals, allowing complete charge recombination of the QB*-/S2,3 or QA*-/S2 states (about 200 and 40 s, respectively). At these excitation rates: (i) 0.7% and 0.4% of PSII is inactivated and 0.4% and 0.2% of the D1 protein is degraded per flash, respectively, and (ii) the damage per flash is about 2 orders of magnitude higher than that induced by equal amount of energy delivered by excess continuous light. No PSII damage occurs if flashes are given in anaerobic conditions. These results demonstrate that charge recombination in active PSII is promoted by low rates of excitation and may account for a the high quantum efficiency of the rapid turnover of the D1 protein induced by limiting light.
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- N Keren
- Minerva Avron Even-Ari Center for Regulation of Photosynthesis under Environmental Stress, Department of Biological Chemistry, Silberman Institute of Life Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
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Spetea C, Hideg É, Vass I. Low pH accelerates light-induced damage of photosystem II by enhancing the probability of the donor-side mechanism of photoinhibition. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(96)00145-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Demeter S, Nugent JH, Kovács L, Bernát G, Evans MC. Comparative EPR and thermoluminescence study of anoxic photoinhibition in Photosystem II particles. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 1995; 46:213-218. [PMID: 24301585 DOI: 10.1007/bf00020433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/1995] [Accepted: 07/03/1995] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Photosystem II particles were exposed to 800 W m(-2) white light at 20 °C under anoxic conditions. The Fo level of fluorescence was considerably enhanced indicating formation of stable-reduced forms of the primary quinone electron acceptor, QA. The Fm level of fluorescence declined only a little. The g=1.9 and g=1.82 EPR forms characteristic of the bicarbonate-bound and bicarbonate-depleted semiquinone-iron complex, QA (-)Fe(2+), respectively, exhibited differential sensitivity against photoinhibition. The large g=1.9 signal was rapidly diminished but the small g=1.82 signal decreased more slowly. The S2-state multiline signal, the oxygen evolution and photooxidation of the high potential form of cytochrome b-559 were inhibited approximately with the same kinetics as the g=1.9 signal. The low potential form of oxidized cytochrome b-559 and Signal IIslow arising from TyrD (+) decreased considerably slower than the g=1.9 semiquinone-iron signal. The high potential form of oxidized cytochrome b-559 was diminished faster than the low potential form. Photoinhibition of the g=1.9 and g=1.82 forms of QA was accompanied with the appearance and gradual saturation of the spin-polarized triplet signal of P 680. The amplitude of the radical signal from photoreducible pheophytin remained constant during the 3 hour illumination period. In the thermoluminescence glow curves of particles the Q band (S2QA (-) charge recombination) was almost completely abolished. To the contrary, the C band (TyrD (+)QA (-) charge recombination) increased a little upon illumination. The EPR and thermoluminescence observations suggest that the Photosystem II reaction centers can be classified into two groups with different susceptibility against photoinhibition.
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- S Demeter
- Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O.Box 521, H-6701, Szeged, Hungary
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Vermaas W, Madsen C, Yu J, Visser J, Metz J, Nixon PJ, Diner B. Turnover of the D1 protein and of Photosystem II in a Synechocystis 6803 mutant lacking Tyrz. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 1995; 45:99-104. [PMID: 24301475 DOI: 10.1007/bf00032580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/1995] [Accepted: 05/19/1995] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The Photosystem II reaction center is rapidly inactivated by light, particularly at higher light intensity. One of the possible factors causing this phenomenon is the oxidized primary donor, P680(+), which may be harmful to Photosystem II because of its highly oxidizing nature. However, no direct evidence specificially implicating P680(+) in photoinhibition has been obtained yet. To investigate whether P680(+) is harmful to Photosystem II, turnover of the D1 protein and of the Photosystem II reaction center complex were measured in vivo in a mutant of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, in which the physiological donor to P680(+), Tyrz, was genetically deleted. In this mutant, D1 degradation in the light is an order of magnitude faster than in wild type. The most straightforward explanation of this phenomenon is that accumulation of P680(+) leads to an increased rate of turnover of the Photosystem II reaction center complex, which is compatible with the hypothesis of destructive oxidation by P680(+) that is damaging to the Photosystem II complex.
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- W Vermaas
- Department of Botany, Arizona State University, 85287-1601, Tempe, AZ, USA
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Characteristic changes of function and structure of Photosystem II during strong-light photoinhibition under aerobic conditions. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(95)00010-g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Hideg E, Spetea C, Vass I. Superoxide radicals are not the main promoters of acceptor-side-induced photoinhibitory damage in spinach thylakoids. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 1995; 46:399-407. [PMID: 24301634 DOI: 10.1007/bf00032294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/1995] [Accepted: 09/20/1995] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Superoxide anion radical formation was studied with isolated spinach thylakoid membranes and oxygen evolving Photosystem II sub-thylakoid preparations using the reaction between superoxide and Tiron (1,2-dihydroxybenzene-3,5-disulphonate) which results in the formation of stable, EPR detectable Tiron radicals.We found that superoxide was produced by illuminated thylakoids but not by Photosystem II preparations. The amount of the radicals was about 70% greater under photoinhibitory conditions than under moderate light intensity. Superoxide production was inhibited by DCMU and enhanced 4-5 times by methyl viologen. These observations suggest that the superoxide in illuminated thylakoids is from the Mehler reaction occurring in Photosystem I, and its formation is not primarily due to electron transport modifications brought about by photoinhibition.Artificial generation of superoxide from riboflavin accelerated slightly the photoinduced degradation of the Photosystem II reaction centre protein D1 but did not accelerate the loss of oxygen evolution supported by a Photosystem II electron acceptor. However, analysis of the protein breakdown products demonstrated that this added superoxide did not increase the amount of fragments brought about by photoinhibition but introduced an additional pathway of damage.On the basis of the above observations we propose that superoxide redicals are not the main promoters of acceptor-side-induced photoinhibition of Photosystem II.
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- E Hideg
- Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 521, H-6701, Szeged, Hungary
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Singlet oxygen and free radical production during acceptor- and donor-side-induced photoinhibition. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(94)90173-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Carbonera D, Giacometti G, Agostini G. A well resolved ODMR triplet minus singlet spectrum of P680 from PSII particles. FEBS Lett 1994; 343:200-4. [PMID: 8174701 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(94)80555-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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An ADMR T-S spectrum of the primary donor (P680) of photosystem II (PSII) was obtained from anaerobically photoreduced particles. The spectrum is the best resolved obtained so far having a main bleaching band at 684 nm with a linewidth of only 100 cm-1. The view that this spectrum is produced by native homogeneous P680 unlike those obtained before is defended. A small bleaching observed at 678 nm is discussed in terms of the reaction center structure. One possible interpretation of the observations is that P680 is a very loose dimer with an exciton splitting of only 144 cm-1 corresponding to a dimer center-to-center distance of roughly 11.5 A.
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- D Carbonera
- Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Padua, Italy
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FDMR of chlorophyll triplets in integrated particles and isolated reaction centres of Photosystem II. Identification of P680 triplet. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(94)90207-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Hideg E, Spetea C, Vass I. Singlet oxygen production in thylakoid membranes during photoinhibition as detected by EPR spectroscopy. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 1994; 39:191-9. [PMID: 24311071 DOI: 10.1007/bf00029386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/1992] [Accepted: 11/29/1992] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Exposure of isolated spinach thylakoids to high intensity illumination (photoinhibition) results in the well-characterized impairment of Photosystem II electron transport, followed by degradation of the D1 reaction centre protein. In the present study we demonstrate that this process is accompanied by singlet oxygen production. Singlet oxygen was detected by EPR spectroscopy, following the formation of stable nitroxide radicals from the trapping of singlet oxygen with a sterically hindered amine TEMP (2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine). There was no detectable singlet oxygen production during anaerob photoinhibition or in the presence of sodium-azide. Comparing the kinetics of the loss of PS II function and D1 protein with that of singlet oxygen trapping suggests that singlet oxygen itself or its radical product initiates the degradation of D1.
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- E Hideg
- Institute of Plant Physiology, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 521, H-6701, Szeged, Hungary
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Koivuniemi A, Swiezewska E, Aro EM, Styring S, Andersson B. Reduced content of the quinone acceptor QA in photosystem II complexes isolated from thylakoid membranes after prolonged photoinhibition under anaerobic conditions. FEBS Lett 1993; 327:343-6. [PMID: 8348961 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(93)81017-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The plastoquinone content of photosystem II complexes isolated from spinach photosystem II-enriched membranes subjected to strong photoinhibitory illumination under anaerobic conditions was determined by HPLC. A pronounced decrease of the plastoquinone content was found in the photoinactivated complexes. These results corroborate earlier models in which photoinhibitory illumination is suggested to eventually lead to release of doubly reduced and protonated QA from its site on the D2-protein.
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- A Koivuniemi
- Department of Biochemistry, Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden
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