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Heterogeneous Photosystem 2 Activity in Isolated Spinach Chloroplasts

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Journal Photosynth Res
Publisher Springer
Date 2014 Jan 15
PMID 24420073
Citations 7
Authors
J Sinclair
S M Spence
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Abstract

A study was made of the fluorescence induction curves from gently-broken spinach chloroplasts inhibited with DCMU. It was found that there were four kinetically different phases associated with such curves of which only the fastest did not appear to follow exponential kinetics. A comparison of the effects of various concentrations of DCMU on the rate of oxygen evolution and on the fluorescence induction curve did not support the hypothesis that any of the kinetic phases was simply an artefact caused by incomplete inhibition of electron transport. It was also found that 5 min of dark incubation did not maximally oxidize the electron acceptors to photosystem 2 since some acceptors were only oxidized following far-red illumination, suggesting a heterogeneity among these acceptors with respect to their re-oxidation properties. Investigation of the effect of the Q400 oxidation state on the fluorescence induction curve revealed that it only influenced the slowest kinetic phase and that Q400 did not seem to be associated with the other phases.

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