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Xiao Y, Liu S, Zhang M, Tong F, Xu Z, Ford R, Zhang T, Shi X, Wu Z, Luo T. Plant Functional Groups Dominate Responses of Plant Adaptive Strategies to Urbanization. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:773676. [PMID: 34917107 PMCID: PMC8669269 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.773676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2021] [Accepted: 10/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Urbanization causes alteration in atmospheric, soil, and hydrological factors and substantially affects a range of morphological and physiological plant traits. Correspondingly, plants might adopt different strategies to adapt to urbanization promotion or pressure. Understanding of plant traits responding to urbanization will reveal the capacity of plant adaptation and optimize the choice of plant species in urbanization green. In this study, four different functional groups (herbs, shrubs, subcanopies, and canopies, eight plant species totally) located in urban, suburban, and rural areas were selected and eight replicated plants were selected for each species at each site. Their physiological and photosynthetic properties and heavy metal concentrations were quantified to reveal plant adaptive strategies to urbanization. The herb and shrub species had significantly higher starch and soluble sugar contents in urban than in suburban areas. Urbanization decreased the maximum photosynthetic rates and total chlorophyll contents of the canopies (Engelhardtia roxburghiana and Schima superba). The herbs (Lophatherum gracile and Alpinia chinensis) and shrubs (Ardisia quinquegona and Psychotria rubra) species in urban areas had significantly lower nitrogen (N) allocated in the cell wall and leaf δ15N values but higher heavy metal concentrations than those in suburban areas. The canopy and subcanopy (Diospyros morrisiana and Cratoxylum cochinchinense) species adapt to the urbanization via reducing resource acquisition but improving defense capacity, while the herb and shrub species improve resource acquisition to adapt to the urbanization. Our current studies indicated that functional groups affected the responses of plant adaptive strategies to the urbanization.
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- Yihua Xiao
- Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou, China
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- Research Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
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- College of Resources and Environment, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China
- Environmental Futures Research Institute, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- College of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China
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- Environmental Futures Research Institute, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Environmental Futures Research Institute, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou, China
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- Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou, China
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- Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou, China
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- Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou, China
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Taniguchi M, Lindsey JS. Absorption and Fluorescence Spectral Database of Chlorophylls and Analogues. Photochem Photobiol 2020; 97:136-165. [PMID: 32757305 DOI: 10.1111/php.13319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2020] [Revised: 07/28/2020] [Accepted: 07/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Absorption spectra and fluorescence spectra are essential for use across the photosciences, yet such spectra along with the all-important values for molar absorption coefficient (ε) and fluorescence quantum yield (Φf ) often are found with great difficulty. Here, a literature survey concerning the vital class of chlorophyll compounds has led to identification of spectra for 150 members. Spectra in print form have been digitized (with baseline corrections) and assembled into a database along with literature references, solvent identity and values for ε and Φf (where available). The database encompasses photosynthetic tetrapyrroles wherein the chromophore is a porphyrin (e.g. chlorophyll c1 , protochlorophyll a), chlorin (e.g. chlorophyll a, bacteriochlorophyll c) or bacteriochlorin (e.g. bacteriochlorophyll a). Altogether, the database contains 305 absorption spectra (from 19 porphyrins, 109 chlorins and 22 bacteriochlorins) and 72 fluorescence spectra (from 10 porphyrins, 30 chlorins and 4 bacteriochlorins). The spectral database should facilitate comparisons and quantitative calculations. All spectra are available in print form in the Supporting Information. The entire database in digital form is available with the PhotochemCAD program for free downloading and further use at http://www.photochemcad.com.
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Komatsu H, Wada K, Kanjoh T, Miyashita H, Sato M, Kawachi M, Kobayashi M. Unique chlorophylls in picoplankton Prochlorococcus sp. "Physicochemical properties of divinyl chlorophylls, and the discovery of monovinyl chlorophyll b as well as divinyl chlorophyll b in the species Prochlorococcus NIES-2086". PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2016; 130:445-467. [PMID: 27334004 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-016-0283-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2015] [Accepted: 06/13/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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In this review, we introduce our recent studies on divinyl chlorophylls functioning in unique marine picoplankton Prochlorococcus sp. (1) Essential physicochemical properties of divinyl chlorophylls are compared with those of monovinyl chlorophylls; separation by normal-phase and reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography with isocratic eluent mode, absorption spectra in four organic solvents, fluorescence information (emission spectra, quantum yields, and life time), circular dichroism spectra, mass spectra, nuclear magnetic resonance spectra, and redox potentials. The presence of a mass difference of 278 in the mass spectra between [M+H]+ and the ions indicates the presence of a phytyl tail in all the chlorophylls. (2) Precise high-performance liquid chromatography analyses show divinyl chlorophyll a' and divinyl pheophytin a as the minor key components in four kinds of Prochlorococcus sp.; neither monovinyl chlorophyll a' nor monovinyl pheophytin a is detected, suggesting that the special pair in photosystem I and the primary electron acceptor in photosystem II are not monovinyl but divinyl-type chlorophylls. (3) Only Prochlorococcus sp. NIES-2086 possesses both monovinyl chlorophyll b and divinyl chlorophyll b, while any other monovinyl-type chlorophylls are absent in this strain. Monovinyl chlorophyll b is not detected at all in the other three strains. Prochlorococcus sp. NIES-2086 is the first example that has both monovinyl chlorophyll b as well as divinyl chlorophylls a/b as major chlorophylls.
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- Hirohisa Komatsu
- Division of Materials Science, Faculty of Pure and Applied Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8573, Japan
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- Division of Materials Science, Faculty of Pure and Applied Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8573, Japan
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- Division of Materials Science, Faculty of Pure and Applied Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8573, Japan
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- Graduate School of Human and Environment Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan
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- National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8506, Japan
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- National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8506, Japan
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- Division of Materials Science, Faculty of Pure and Applied Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8573, Japan.
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Hynninen PH, Mesilaakso M. Synthesis and characterization of chlorophyll a enol derivatives: Chlorophyll a tert-butyldimethylsilyl-enol ether and 131-deoxo-131, 132-didehydro-chlorophyll a. J PORPHYR PHTHALOCYA 2016. [DOI: 10.1142/s1088424616500486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Using the sterically hindered base, 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene, for enolization and tert-butyldimethylsilyl-trifluoromethanesulfonate for silylation, chlorophyll (Chl) [Formula: see text] produced after 15 min at 0 [Formula: see text]C in deaerated pyridine solution under argon, after work-up and chromatographic purification on a sucrose column, tert-butyldimethylsilyl-enol ether of Chl [Formula: see text] in a yield of 77%. The 131-deoxo-131,132-didehydro-chlorophyll [Formula: see text], was obtained in a yield of 23% through a reaction sequence, where Chl [Formula: see text] was first reduced with sodium borohydride to 13[Formula: see text]-hydroxy-Chl [Formula: see text], which via demetalation yielded 13[Formula: see text]-hydroxypheophytin [Formula: see text]. In the presence of the sterically hindered base, 1,8-bis(dimethylamino)naphthalene, trifluoroacetylimidazole dehydrated 13[Formula: see text]-hydroxypheophytin [Formula: see text] to 131-deoxo-131,132-didehydro-pheophytin [Formula: see text], which after metalation yielded 131-deoxo-131,132-didehydro-Chl [Formula: see text]. Using 1,8-bis(dimethylamino)naphthalene and trifluoroacetylimidazole, the straight conversion of 13[Formula: see text]-hydroxy-Chl [Formula: see text] to 131-deoxo-131,132-didehydro-Chl [Formula: see text] was found unsuccessful. The major products were characterized by electronic absorption spectra (UV-vis) and practically completely assigned 1H and [Formula: see text]C NMR spectra. Some intermediates of the syntheses were also characterized by ESI-TOF mass spectra. Compared with Chl [Formula: see text], the macrocyclic ring-current in the synthesized Chl [Formula: see text] enol derivatives was found weakened by the expansion of the [Formula: see text]-system to include the isocyclic ring E. Nevertheless, these enol derivatives were still considered to be diamagnetic and aromatic. The possibility of the functional role of the enol derivatives of chlorophyll in photosynthesis is discussed.
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- Paavo H. Hynninen
- Division of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 56 (Viikinkaari 5 E), FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Finnish Institute for Verification of the Chemical Weapons Convention, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 55 (A.I. Virtasen Aukio 1), FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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Guillet JE, Burke NAD, Nowakowska M, Paone S. Polymer catalysts for important photoelectron transfer reactions. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.1002/masy.19981340106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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O'malley PJ, Babcock GT. Electron nuclear double resonance evidence supporting a monomeric nature for P700 in spinach chloroplasts. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 81:1098-101. [PMID: 16593417 PMCID: PMC344772 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.81.4.1098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Proton electron nuclear double resonance (ENDOR) spectra of P700(+) in spinach chloroplasts and in photosystem I particles have been obtained and compared with the corresponding ENDOR spectrum of monomeric chlorophyl a(+) (Chla(+)) cation radical. The hyperfine couplings for P700(+) can be interpreted in terms of those expected for a monomer Chla(+) radical. The reduction in alpha-carbon spin densities observed for the in vivo species when compared to the in vitro radical is attributed to differences in the composition of the ground-state orbital for the two systems. For P700(+), a mixture of 75% D(0)/25% D(1), in which D(0) and D(1) represent the ground-and first excited-state orbitals calculated by Petke et al. for Chla(+) [Petke, J. D., Maggiora, G. M., Shipman, L. L. & Christoffersen, R. E. (1980) Photochem. Photobiol. 31, 243-257], gives good agreement between calculated and experimental spin-density reduction factors. Interaction of the pigment ion with its protein environment such as through ligation of the central Mg atom, hydrogen bonding to the 9-keto-carbonyl group, and electrostatic interactions with charged amino acid residues are proposed as factors responsible for the lowering in energy of the D(1) level in vivo. Combined with similar previous proposals for P680(+) of photosystem II, the data suggest that both primary donor cation radicals of green plant photosynthesis can be viewed as monomeric Chla(+) species in which the D(1) orbital makes a significant contribution to the spin-density distribution.
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- P J O'malley
- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1322
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Eccles J, Honig B. Charged amino acids as spectroscopic determinants for chlorophyll in vivo. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 80:4959-62. [PMID: 16593352 PMCID: PMC384167 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.80.16.4959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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In this paper we propose that the large spectroscopic red shifts observed for chlorophyll (Chl) and bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) in vivo may be due to charged amino acids in the binding site. Molecular orbital calculations of the transition energies of Chl in the field of external charges are carried out. The calculated wavelength shifts induced by these charges are comparable in magnitude to those observed in vivo. Moreover the size of the shifts increases in the order BChl b > BChl a > Chl a, which is the observed trend. The ability of the calculations to account for both the absolute and relative magnitudes of the wavelength shifts argues for the validity of the model. Further indirect support comes from the recent demonstration that charged amino acids are responsible for the colors of visual pigments and bacteriorhodopsin. In addition to their effects on spectra the presence of external charges induces large changes in the ionization potential of Chl molecules and thus might explain the in vivo alteration of the oxidation potentials in reaction centers.
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- J Eccles
- Department of Biochemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032
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Gottstein J, Scheer H. Long-wavelength-absorbing forms of bacteriochlorophyll a in solutions of Triton X-100. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 80:2231-4. [PMID: 16578768 PMCID: PMC393792 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.80.8.2231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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At least three forms of Triton X-100-solubilized bacteriochlorophyll a (BChl a) have been characterized by UV/visible/near-IR absorption and CD spectra. One, absorbing at 770 nm, is similar to a monomeric solution in methanol. The two others have strongly red-shifted absorption peaks (860 nm and 930, 835 nm) and intense and complex CD bands in this region, indicative of strong interaction of at least two and three molecules of BChl a, respectively.
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- J Gottstein
- Botanisches Institut der Universität München, Menzinger Str. 67, D-8000 München 19, Federal Republic of Germany
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Sacksteder CA, Bender SL, Barry BA. Role for bound water and CH-pi aromatic interactions in photosynthetic electron transfer. J Am Chem Soc 2005; 127:7879-90. [PMID: 15913378 DOI: 10.1021/ja050659a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Photosystem I (PSI) is one of two photosynthetic reaction centers present in plants, algae, and cyanobacteria and catalyzes the reduction of ferredoxin and the oxidation of cytochrome c or plastocyanin. The PSI primary chlorophyll donor, which is oxidized in the primary electron-transfer events, is a heterodimer of chl a and a' called P700. It has been suggested that protein relaxation accompanies light-induced electron transfer in this reaction center (Dashdorj, N.; Xu, W.; Martinsson, P.; Chitnis, P. R.; Savikhin, S. Biophys. J. 2004, 86, 3121. Kim, S.; Sacksteder, C. A.; Bixby, K. A.; Barry, B. A. Biochemistry 2001, 40, 15384). To investigate the details of electron transfer and relaxation events in PSI, we have employed several experimental approaches. First, we report a pH-dependent viscosity effect on P700+ reduction; this result suggests a role for proton transfer in the PSI electron-transfer reactions. Second, we find that changes in hydration alter the rate of P700+ reduction and the interactions of P700 with the protein environment. This result suggests a role for bound water in electron transfer to P700+. Third, we present evidence that deuteration of the tyrosine aromatic side chain perturbs the vibrational spectrum, associated with P700+ reduction. We attribute this result to a linkage between CH-pi interactions and electron transfer to P700+.
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- Colette A Sacksteder
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
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Pandey A, Datta SN. Theoretical Determination of Standard Oxidation and Reduction Potentials of Chlorophyll-a in Acetonitrile. J Phys Chem B 2005; 109:9066-72. [PMID: 16852079 DOI: 10.1021/jp0446478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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QM/MM calculations were performed on ethyl chlorophyllide-a and its radical cation and anion, by using the density functional (DF) B3LYP method to determine the molecular characteristics, and a molecular mechanics (MM) method to simulate the solvating medium. The presence of the solvent was accounted for during the optimization of the geometry of the 85-atom chlorophyll-a system by using an ONIOM methodology. A total of 24 solvent molecules were explicitly considered during the optimization process, and these were treated by the universal force field (UFF) method. Initially, the split-valence 3-21G basis set was used for optimizing the geometry of the 85-atom species, neutral, cation and anion. Electronic energies were then determined for the optimized species by making use of the polarized 6-31G(d) basis set. The ionization energy calculated (6.0 eV) is in very good agreement with the observed one (6.1 eV). The MM+ force field was used to investigate the dynamics of the acetonitrile molecules around the neutral species as well as the radical ions of chlorophyll. The required atomic charges on all the atoms were obtained from calculations on all involved molecules at the DFT/6-31G(d) level. Randomly sampled configurations were used to determine the first solvation layer contribution to the free energy of solvation of various species. A truncated 46-atom model of ethyl chlorophyllide-a was used to evaluate the thermal energies of neutral chlorophyll molecule relative to its two radical ions in the gas phase. Born energy, Onsager energy, and the Debye-Huckel energy of the chlorophyll-solvent aggregate were added as perturbative corrections to the free energy of solvation that was initially obtained through molecular dynamics method for the same complex. These calculations yield the oxidation potential as 0.75 +/- 0.32 V and the reduction potential -1.18 +/- 0.31 V at 298.15 K. The calculated values are in good agreement with the experimental midpoint potentials of +0.76 and -1.04 V, respectively.
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- Anshu Pandey
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Powai, Mumbai-400076, India
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Nsangou M, Ben Fredj A, Jaı̈dane N, Kwato Njock M, Ben Lakhdar Z. Structural isomers and tautomerism of chlorophyll a in the ground state studied by semiempirical MNDO-d method. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/j.theochem.2004.05.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Golbeck JH. The binding of cofactors to photosystem I analyzed by spectroscopic and mutagenic methods. ANNUAL REVIEW OF BIOPHYSICS AND BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE 2003; 32:237-56. [PMID: 12524325 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.32.110601.142356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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This review focuses on cofactor-ligand and protein-protein interactions within the photosystem I reaction center. The topics include a description of the electron transfer cofactors, the mode of binding of the cofactors to protein-bound ligands, and a description of intraprotein contacts that ultimately allow photosystem I to be assembled (in cyanobacteria) from 96 chlorophylls, 22 carotenoids, 2 phylloquinones, 3 [4Fe-4S] clusters, and 12 polypeptides. During the 15 years that have elapsed from the first report of crystals to the atomic-resolution X-ray crystal structure, cofactor-ligand interactions and protein-protein interactions were systematically being explored by spectroscopic and genetic methods. This article charts the interplay between these disciplines and assesses how good the early insights were in light of the current structure of photosystem I.
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- John H Golbeck
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
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Plato M, Krauß N, Fromme P, Lubitz W. Molecular orbital study of the primary electron donor P700 of photosystem I based on a recent X-ray single crystal structure analysis. Chem Phys 2003. [DOI: 10.1016/s0301-0104(03)00378-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Poluektov OG, Utschig LM, Schlesselman SL, Lakshmi KV, Brudvig GW, Kothe G, Thurnauer MC. Electronic Structure of the P700Special Pair from High-Frequency Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem B 2002. [DOI: 10.1021/jp021465+] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Hynninen PH, Hyvärinen K. Tracing the allomerization pathways of chlorophylls by (18)O-labeling and mass spectrometry. J Org Chem 2002; 67:4055-61. [PMID: 12054938 DOI: 10.1021/jo010673f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The Willstätter allomerization reaction of chlorophylls (Chl) has posed a difficult problem in Chl and photosynthesis research over the past 90 years. Here, we present strong additional evidence, based on (18)O-labeling and mass spectrometry, for the previously published free-radical allomerization (FRA) mechanism (Hynninen, Z. Naturforsch. 1981, 36b, 1010-1016). This mechanism is also complemented now by describing two alternative pathways for the formation of 13(2)(S/R)-hydroxy-Chl a. The results from the (18,18)O(2)-experiments suggest that the predominant route for the formation of the 13(2)(S/R)-hydroxy-Chl a under essentially anhydrous conditions (anhydrous Chl and thoroughly dried methanol) is the homolytic cleavage of the C-13(2)-hydroperoxide intermediate. However, if Chl dihydrate and undried methanol are used in the reaction mixture, the direct route from the Chl C-13(2) radical to 13(2)(S/R)-hydroxy-Chl a can be predicted to become significant. The results from the (18,18)O(2)-allomerization experiments described in this paper also verified that the 13(2)(S/R)-methoxy-lactone derivatives and the 15-glyoxylic acid derivative of Chl a incorporated each a single (18)O-atom, whereas 13(2)(R/S)-methoxy-Chl a remained unlabeled. Consequently, these allomers are formed via the pathways previously suggested in the original FRA mechanism. The possible factors contributing to the control of the allomerization reactions are considered. Finally, the relationship between the allomerization reactions of Chl a and those of Chl b and BChl a is briefly discussed.
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- Paavo H Hynninen
- University of Helsinki, Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, P.O. Box 55 (A.I.Virtasen aukio 1), FIN-00014, Finland.
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Sinnecker S, Koch W, Lubitz W. Chlorophyll a Radical Ions: A Density Functional Study. J Phys Chem B 2002. [DOI: 10.1021/jp013758t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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- Sebastian Sinnecker
- Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie, Postfach 101365, D-45413 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, Institut für Chemie der Technischen Universität Berlin, Strasse des 17. Juni 135, D-10623 Berlin, Germany, and Max-Volmer-Laboratorium für Biophysikalische Chemie der Technischen Universität Berlin, Strasse des 17. Juni 135, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie, Postfach 101365, D-45413 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, Institut für Chemie der Technischen Universität Berlin, Strasse des 17. Juni 135, D-10623 Berlin, Germany, and Max-Volmer-Laboratorium für Biophysikalische Chemie der Technischen Universität Berlin, Strasse des 17. Juni 135, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie, Postfach 101365, D-45413 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, Institut für Chemie der Technischen Universität Berlin, Strasse des 17. Juni 135, D-10623 Berlin, Germany, and Max-Volmer-Laboratorium für Biophysikalische Chemie der Technischen Universität Berlin, Strasse des 17. Juni 135, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
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Agostiano A, Catucci L, Colafemmina G, Scheer H. Role of Functional Groups and Surfactant Charge in Regulating Chlorophyll Aggregation in Micellar Solutions. J Phys Chem B 2002. [DOI: 10.1021/jp011718j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Angela Agostiano
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari, via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy, CNR Centro Studi Chimico Fisici Sulla Interazione Luce-Materia, and Botanisches Institut der Universität, Menzinger Str. 67, 80638 München, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari, via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy, CNR Centro Studi Chimico Fisici Sulla Interazione Luce-Materia, and Botanisches Institut der Universität, Menzinger Str. 67, 80638 München, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari, via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy, CNR Centro Studi Chimico Fisici Sulla Interazione Luce-Materia, and Botanisches Institut der Universität, Menzinger Str. 67, 80638 München, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari, via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy, CNR Centro Studi Chimico Fisici Sulla Interazione Luce-Materia, and Botanisches Institut der Universität, Menzinger Str. 67, 80638 München, Germany
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Watanabe T, Kobayashi M, Hongu A, Nakazato M, Hiyama T, Murata N. Evidence that a chlorophylla' dimer constitutes the photochemical reaction centre 1 (P700) in photosynthetic apparatus. FEBS Lett 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(85)80019-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Wasielewski MR, Smith UH, Norris JR. ESR study of the primary electron donor in highly 13
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f. thiosulfatophilum. FEBS Lett 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(82)81089-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Webber AN, Lubitz W. P700: the primary electron donor of photosystem I. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2001; 1507:61-79. [PMID: 11687208 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(01)00198-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 211] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The primary electron donor of photosystem I, P700, is a chlorophyll species that in its excited state has a potential of approximately -1.2 V. The precise chemical composition and electronic structure of P700 is still unknown. Recent evidence indicates that P700 is a dimer of one chlorophyll (Chl) a and one Chl a'. The Chl a' and Chl a are axially coordinated by His residues provided by protein subunits PsaA and PsaB, respectively. The Chl a', but not the Chl a, is also H-bonded to the protein. The H-bonding is likely responsible for selective insertion of Chl a' into the reaction center. EPR studies of P700(+*) in frozen solution and single crystals indicate a large asymmetry in the electron spin and charge distribution towards one Chl of the dimer. Molecular orbital calculations indicate that H-bonding will specifically stabilize the Chl a'-side of the dimer, suggesting that the unpaired electron would predominantly reside on the Chl a. This is supported by results of specific mutagenesis of the PsaA and PsaB axial His residues, which show that only mutations of the PsaB subunit significantly alter the hyperfine coupling constants associated with a single Chl molecule. The PsaB mutants also alter the microwave induced triplet-minus-singlet spectrum indicating that the triplet state is localized on the same Chl. Excitonic coupling between the two Chl a of P700 is weak due to the distance and overlap of the porphyrin planes. Evidence of excitonic coupling is found in PsaB mutants which show a new bleaching band at 665 nm that likely represents an increased intensity of the upper exciton band of P700. Additional properties of P700 that may give rise to its unusually low potential are discussed.
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- A N Webber
- Department of Plant Biology and Center for the Study of Early Events in Photosynthesis, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287-1601, USA.
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Breton J. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy of primary electron donors in type I photosynthetic reaction centers. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2001; 1507:180-93. [PMID: 11687214 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(01)00206-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The vibrational properties of the primary electron donors (P) of type I photosynthetic reaction centers, as investigated by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) difference spectroscopy in the last 15 years, are briefly reviewed. The results obtained on the microenvironment of the chlorophyll molecules in P700 of photosystem I and of the bacteriochlorophyll molecules in P840 of the green bacteria (Chlorobium) and in P798 of heliobacteria are presented and discussed with special attention to the bonding interactions with the protein of the carbonyl groups and of the central Mg atom of the pigments. The observation of broad electronic transitions in the mid-IR for the cationic state of all the primary donors investigated provides evidence for charge repartition over two (B)Chl molecules. In the green sulfur bacteria and the heliobacteria, the assignments proposed for the carbonyl groups of P and P(+) are still very tentative. In contrast, the axial ligands of P700 in photosystem I have been identified and the vibrational properties of the chlorophyll (Chl) molecules involved in P700, P700(+), and (3)P700 are well described in terms of two molecules, denoted P(1) and P(2), with very different hydrogen bonding patterns. While P(1) has hydrogen bonds to both the 9-keto and the 10a-ester C=O groups and bears all the triplet character in (3)P700, the carbonyl groups of P(2) are free from hydrogen bonding. The positive charge in P700(+) is shared between the two Chl molecules with a ratio ranging from 1:1 to 2:1, in favor of P(2), depending on the temperature and the species. The localization of the triplet in (3)P700 and of the unpaired electron in P700(+) deduced from FTIR spectroscopy is in sharp contrast with that resulting from the analysis of the magnetic resonance experiments. However, the FTIR results are in excellent agreement with the most recent structural model derived from X-ray crystallography of photosystem I at 2.5 A resolution that reveals the hydrogen bonds to the carbonyl groups of the Chl in P700 as well as the histidine ligands of the central Mg atoms predicted from the FTIR data.
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- J Breton
- SBE/DBCM, CEA-Saclay, 91191 Cedex, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
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Käss H, Fromme P, Witt HT, Lubitz W. Orientation and Electronic Structure of the Primary Donor Radical Cation in Photosystem I: A Single Crystals EPR and ENDOR Study. J Phys Chem B 2001. [DOI: 10.1021/jp0032311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Hanno Käss
- Max-Volmer-Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie und Biochemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Str. d. 17. Juni 135, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Max-Volmer-Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie und Biochemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Str. d. 17. Juni 135, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Max-Volmer-Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie und Biochemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Str. d. 17. Juni 135, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Max-Volmer-Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie und Biochemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Str. d. 17. Juni 135, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
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Nowakowska M, Kataoka F, Guillet JE. Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Porphyrin−Quinone End-Capped Poly(methacrylic acid). 1. Photophysical Studies. Macromolecules 1996. [DOI: 10.1021/ma946429q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Maria Nowakowska
- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1
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Finkele U, Lauterwasser C, Struck A, Scheer H, Zinth W. Primary electron transfer kinetics in bacterial reaction centers with modified bacteriochlorophylls at the monomeric sites BA,B. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1992; 89:9514-8. [PMID: 1409661 PMCID: PMC50162 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.89.20.9514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The primary electron transfer has been investigated by femtosecond time-resolved absorption spectroscopy in two chemically modified reaction centers (RC) of Rhodobacter sphaeroides, in which the monomeric bacteriochlorophylls BA and BB have both been exchanged by 13(2)-hydroxybacteriochlorophyll a or [3-vinyl]-13(2)-hydroxybacteriochlorophyll a. The kinetics of the primary electron transfer are not influenced by the 13(2)-hydroxy modification. In RCs containing [3-vinyl]-13(2)-hydroxybacteriochlorophyll a the primary rate is reduced by a factor of 10.
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- U Finkele
- Physik Department, Technischen Universität München, Germany
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Gingras G, Picorel R. Supramolecular arrangement of Rhodospirillum rubrum B880 holochrome as studied by radiation inactivation and electron paramagnetic resonance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:3405-9. [PMID: 11607076 PMCID: PMC53909 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.9.3405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Oxidation of the B880 antenna holochrome gives rise to a 3.8-G linewidth electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) signal that is considerably narrower than the 13-G signal of monomeric bacteriochlorophyll (Bchl) cation. Radiation inactivation was used to verify a model according to which this linewidth narrowing is due to delocalization over several Bchl molecules. Chromatophores of the photoreaction centerless mutant F24 of Rhodospirillum rubrum were subjected to different doses of gamma-radiation. This induced not only a decay of the EPR signal amplitude but also its linewidth broadening. According to target theory, the induced amplitude decay of the EPR signal had a target size of 10.5 kDa. This is attributed to an elementary structure (alpha1beta1Bchl2), whose number in the membrane would limit the rate of encounter with ferricyanide and thus the formation of unpaired spins. We applied Bernoulli statistics to predict, for a given survival probability of the signal, the number of surviving elementary structures in aggregates of (alpha1beta1Bchl2)n where n was varied from 4 to 7. Using an equation that predicted the Bchl special pair in the photo-reaction center, we were able to simulate the observed relationship between the EPR linewidth and the dose of radiation. The best fit was obtained with a hexameric structure alpha1beta1Bchl2)6.
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- G Gingras
- Département de Biochimie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
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Nabedryk E, Leonhard M, Mäntele W, Breton J. Fourier transform infrared difference spectroscopy shows no evidence for an enolization of chlorophyll a upon cation formation either in vitro or during P700 photooxidation. Biochemistry 1990; 29:3242-7. [PMID: 2110474 DOI: 10.1021/bi00465a015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Molecular changes associated with the photooxidation of the primary electron donor P700 in photosystem I from cyanobacteria have been investigated with Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) difference spectroscopy. Highly resolved signals are observed in the carbonyl stretching frequency region of the light-induced FTIR spectra. In order to assign and to interpret these signals, the FTIR spectra of isolated chlorophyll a and pyrochlorophyll a (lacking the 10a-ester carbonyl) in both their neutral and cation states were investigated. Comparison of the redox-induced FTIR difference spectra of these two model compounds demonstrates that upon chlorophyll a cation formation in tetrahydrofuran the 7c-ester carbonyl is essentially unperturbed while the 10a-ester carbonyl is upshifted from 1738 to 1751 cm-1. For the 9-keto group, the shift is from 1693 to 1718 cm-1 in chlorophyll a and from 1686 to 1712 cm-1 in pyrochlorophyll a. The 1718-cm-1 band in the difference spectrum of chlorophyll a is thus unambiguously assigned to the 9-keto carbonyl of the cation. Comparison of the light-induced FTIR difference spectrum associated with the photooxidation of P700 in vivo with the difference FTIR spectrum of chlorophyll a cation formation leads to the assignment of the frequencies of the 9-keto carbonyl group(s) at 1700 cm-1 in P700 and at 1717 cm-1 in P700+.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- E Nabedryk
- Département de Biologie, CEN Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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ESR, ENDOR and TRIPLE resonance studies of the primary donor radical cation P960+• in the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas viridis. Chem Phys Lett 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(88)87191-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Bocian DF, Boldt NJ, Chadwick BW, Frank HA. Near-infrared-excitation resonance Raman spectra of bacterial photosynthetic reaction centers. Implications for path-specific electron transfer. FEBS Lett 1987; 214:92-6. [PMID: 3552728 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(87)80019-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The first near-infrared (Qy)-excitation resonance Raman spectrum of photosynthetic reaction centers (Rb. sphaeroides wild type) is reported. This spectrum exhibits features which are not observed with excitation into either the Qx or Soret absorption bands. The spectral data indicate that the partial double-bond character is induced in the C9C10 bond of the isocyclic ring of one of the pigments via interactions with the protein. It is proposed that this modified pigment is the L-subunit bacteriopheophytin and that the preference for electron transfer to this molecule could be in part due to the change in electronic structure induced by the site-specific pigment-protein interaction.
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Hoff A. Chapter 5 Electron paramagnetic resonance in photosynthesis. NEW COMPREHENSIVE BIOCHEMISTRY 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7306(08)60136-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Mathis P, Rutherford A. Chapter 4 The primary reactions of photosystems I and II of algae and higher plants. NEW COMPREHENSIVE BIOCHEMISTRY 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7306(08)60135-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Scheer H, Gross E, Nitsche B, Cmiel E, Schneider S, Schäfer W, Schiebel HM, Schulten HR. STRUCTURE OF METHYLPHEOPHORBIDE-RCI. Photochem Photobiol 1986. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1986.tb09535.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Rutherford AW, Heathcote P. Primary photochemistry in photosystem-I. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 1985; 6:295-316. [PMID: 24442951 DOI: 10.1007/bf00054105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/1984] [Accepted: 01/31/1985] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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In this review, the main research developments that have led to the current simplified picture of photosystem I are presented. This is followed by a discussion of some conflicting reports and unresolved questions in the literature. The following points are made: (1) the evidence is contradictory on whether P700, the primary donor, is a monomer or dimer of chlorophyll although at this time the balacnce of the evidence points towards a monomeric structure for P700 when in the triplet state; (2) there is little evidence that the iron sulfur centers FA and FB act in series as tertiary acceptors and it is as likely that they act in parallel under physiological conditions; (3) a role for FX, probably another iron sulfur centrer, as an obligatory electron carrier in forward electron transfer has not been proven. Some evidence indicates that its reduction could represent a pathway different to that involving FA and FB; (4) the decay of the acceptor 'A2 (-)' as defined by optical spectroscopy corresponds with 700(+) % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafeart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGqiVu0Je9sqqrpepC0xbbL8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaGaamOramaaBa% aaleaadaqdaaqaaiaadIfaaaaabeaaaaa!37D1!\[F_{\overline X } \] recombination under some circumstances but under other conditions it probably corresponds with P700(+) A1 (-) recombination; (5) P700(+) A1 (-) recombination as originally observed by optical spectroscopy is probably due to the decay of the P700 triplet state; (6) the acceptor A1 (-) as defined by EPR may be a special semiquinone molecule; (7) A0 is probably a chlorophyll a molecule which acts as the primary acceptor. Recombination of P700(+) A0 (-) gives rise to the P700 triplet state.A working model for electron transfer in photosystem I is presented, its general features are discussed and comparisons with other photosystems are made.
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- A W Rutherford
- Service de Biophysique, Department de Biologie, CEN Saclay, BP2, 91190, Gif sur Yvette, France
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Morgan B, Dolphin D. Synthese von doppelt penta- oder hexamethylenverbrückten Porphyrin-p-Benzochinon-Verbindungen. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 1985. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.19850971136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Maggiora LL, Petke JD, Gopal D, Iwamoto RT, Maggiora GM. EXPERIMENTAL and THEORETICAL STUDIES OF SCHIFF BASE CHLOROPHYLLS. Photochem Photobiol 1985. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1985.tb03549.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Picorel R, Lefebvre S, Gingras G. Oxido-reduction of B800-850 and B880 holochromes isolated from three species of photosynthetic bacteria as studied by electron-paramagnetic resonance and optical spectroscopy. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1984; 142:304-11. [PMID: 6086349 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1984.tb08286.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Certain redox properties of bacteriochlorophyll alpha were used to probe the structure of several light-harvesting pigment-protein complexes or holochromes. To attribute redox properties unequivocally to a given holochrome, we worked with purified holochromes. We developed purification procedures for the B880 holochromes from Rhodospirillum rubrum, Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides and Ectothiorhodospira sp. and for the B800-850 holochromes from the latter two species. In all these holochromes, bacteriochlorophyll alpha could be oxidized by ferricyanide as witnessed by the bleaching of their near-infrared absorption bands. However, only in B880 holochromes was this oxidation reversible. Another important difference between the B800-850 and the B880 holochromes is that oxidation of the latter gives rise to a g = 2.0025 electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) signal with linewidth varying, according to species, from 0.37 mT to 0.48 mT. Both the reversible EPR signal and absorption changes titrate with a midpoint redox potential (pH 8.0) of approximately 570 mV. Linewidth narrowing can be interpreted by delocalization of the free electron spin over approximately 12 bacteriochlorophyll molecules. While the B880 holochromes from the three species considered had indistinguishable redox properties, the B800-850 holochromes differed from one another by their circular dichroic spectra and by the relative ease of oxidation of their 800-nm and 850-nm bands. This indicates that, contrary to the B880 holochromes, the B800-850 holochromes may not form a homogeneous class.
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Schaber PM, Hunt JE, Fries R, Katz JJ. High-performance liquid chromatographic study of the chlorophyll allomerization reaction. J Chromatogr A 1984. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9673(00)96138-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Connolly JS, Samuel EB, Janzen AF. EFFECTS OF SOLVENT ON THE FLUORESCENCE PROPERTIES OF BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL a. Photochem Photobiol 1982. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1982.tb04417.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Yuen MJ, Shipmanj LL, Katz JJ, Hindman JC. ENERGY TRANSFER IN SELF-ASSEMBLED CHLOROPHYLL a SYSTEMS. Photochem Photobiol 1982. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1982.tb04366.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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