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  • 1
    ISSN: 1432-2048
    Keywords: Light acclimation ; Photosynthesis ; Photoinhibition ; Photosystem II repair cycle ; Pisum ; Tradescantia
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Leaf discs of the shade plant Tradescantia albiflora Kunth grown at 50 μmol · m−2 · s−1, and the facultative sun/shade plant Pisum sativum L. grown at 50 or 300 μmol · m−2, s−1, were photoinhibited for 4 h in 1700 μmol photons m−2 · s−1 at 22° C. The effects of photoinhibition on the following parameters were studied: i) photosystem II (PSII) function; ii) amount of D1 protein in the PSII reaction centre; iii) dependence of photoinhibition and its recovery on chloroplast-encoded protein synthesis; and, iv) the sensitivity of photosynthesis to photoinhibition in the presence or absence of the carotenoid zeaxanthin. We show that: i) despite different sensitivities to photoinhibition, photoinhibition in all three plants occurred at the reaction centre of PSII; ii) there was no correlation between the extent of photoinhibition and the degradation of the D1 protein; iii) the susceptibility to photoinhibition by blockage of chloroplas-tencoded protein synthesis was much less in shade plants than in plants acclimated to higher light; and iv) inhibition of zeaxanthin formation increased the sensitivity to photoinhibition in pea, but not in the shade plant Tradescantia. We suggest that there are mechanistic differences in photoinhibition of sun and shade plants. In sun plants, an active repair cycle of PSII replaces photoinhibited reaction centres with photochemically active ones, thereby conferring partial protection against photoinhibition. However, in shade plants, this repair cycle is less important for protection against photoinhibition; instead, photoinhibited PSII reaction centres may confer, as they accumulate, increased protection of the remaining connected, functional PSII centres by controlled, nonphotochemical dissipation of excess excitation energy.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1432-2048
    Keywords: Chlorophyll fluorescence ; D1 protein ; Photoinhibition ; Photoprotection ; Photosystem II heterogeneity ; Pisum
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract To determine the dependence of in vivo photosystem (PS) II function on photon exposure and to assign the relative importance of some photoprotective strategies of PSII against excess light, the maximal photochemical efficiency of PSII (Fv/Fm) and the content of functional PSII complexes (measured by repetitive flash yield of oxygen evolution) were determined in leaves of pea (Pisum satlvum L.) grown in moderate light. The modulation of PSII functionality in vivo was induced by varying either the duration (from 0 to 3 h) of light treatment (fixed at 1200 or 1800 μmol photons · m-2 · s-1) or irradiance (from 0 to 3000 μmol photons · m-2 · s-1) at a fixed duration (1 h) after infiltration of leaves with water (control), lincomycin (an inhibitor of chloroplast-encoded protein synthesis), nigericin (an uncoupler), or dithiothreitol (an inhibitor of the xanthophyll cycle) through the cut petioles of leaves of 22 to 24-day-old plants. We observed a reciprocity of irradiance and duration of illumination for PSII function, demonstrating that inactivation of functional PSII depends on the total number of photons absorbed, not on the rate of photon absorption. The Fv/Fm ratios from photoinhibitory light-treated leaves, with or without inhibitors, declined pseudo-linearly with photon exposure. The number of functional PSII complexes declined multiphasically with increasing photon exposure, in the following decreasing order of inhibitor effect: lincomycin 〉 nigericin 〉 DTT, indicating the central role of D1 protein turnover. While functional PSII and Fv/Fm ratio showed a linear relationship under high photon exposure conditions, in inhibitor-treated leaves the Fv/Fm ratio failed to reveal the loss of up to 25% of the total functional PSII under low photon exposure. The loss of this 25% of less-stable functional PSII was accompanied by a decrease of excitation-energy trapping capacity at the reaction centre of PSII (revealed by the fluorescence parameter, 1/Fo-1/Fm, where Fo and Fm stand for chlorophyll fluorescence when PSII reaction centres are open and closed, respectively), but not by a loss of excitation energy at the antenna (revealed by the fluorescence parameter, 1/Fm). We conclude that (i) PSII is an intrinsic photon counter under photoinhibitory conditions, (ii) PSII functionality is mainly regulated by D1 protein turnover, and to a lesser extent, by events mediated via the transthylakoid pH gradient, and (iii) peas exhibit PSII heterogeneity in terms of functional stability during photon exposure.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1432-2048
    Keywords: D1-protein ; Photoinhibition ; Photon exposure ; Photosystem II heterogeneity ; Light acclimation ; Pisum
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract To investigate whether the in-vivo photoinhibition of photosystem II (PSII) function by excess light is an intrinsic property of PSII, the maximal photochemical efficiency of PSII (Fv/Fm) and the content of functional PSII (measured by repetitive flash yield of oxygen evolution) were determined in leaves of pea (Pisum sativum L.), grown in 50 (low light), 250 (medium light), and 650 (high light) μmol photons·m−2·s−1. The modulation of PSII functionality in vivo was induced in 1.1% CO2 by varying either (i) the duration (0–2 h) of light treatment (fixed at 1800 μmol photons· m−2·s−1) or (ii) irradiance (0–3200 μmol photons·m−2·s−1) at a fixed duration (1 h), after infiltration of leaves with water (control), lincomycin (an inhibitor of chloroplast-encoded protein synthesis), or a combination of lincomycin with nigericin (an uncoupler), through the cut petioles of leaves of 22-to 24-d-old plants. The reciprocity law of irradiance and duration of illumination for PSII function in vivo (Park et al. 1995, Planta 196: 401–411) holds in all differently light-grown peas, demonstrating that inactivation of functional PSII depends on photon exposure (mol photons·m−2), not on the rate of photon absorption. In vivo, PSII acts as an intrinsic “photon counter” and at higher photon exposures is inactivated following absorption of about 3 × 107 photons. There is a functional heterogeneity of PSII in vivo with 25% less-stable PSIIs that are inactivated at low photon exposure, compared to 75% more-stable PSIIs regardless of modulation of the photosynthetic apparatus. We suggest that the less-stable PSIIs represent monomers located in the nonappressed granal margins, while the more-stable PSIIs are dimers located in the appressed grana membrane cores. The capacity for D1-protein synthesis was the same in all the light-acclimated peas and saturated at low light, indicating that D1-protein repair is also an intrinsic property of PSII. This accounts for the low intensity required for recovery of photoinhibition in sun and shade plants which is independent of light-harvesting antennae size or PSII/PSI stoichiometries.
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  • 4
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    Photosynthesis research 56 (1998), S. 1-13 
    ISSN: 1573-5079
    Keywords: photoinhibition ; Photosystem II ; primary radical pair ; singlet oxygen ; triplet P680
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract We present a unifying mechanism for photoinhibition based on current obsevations from in vivo studies rather than from in vitro studies with isolated thylakoids or PS II membranes. In vitro studies have limited relevance for in vivo photoinhibition because very high light is used with photon exposures rarely encountered in nature, and most of the multiple, interacting, protective strategies of PS II regulation in living cells are not functional. It is now established that the photoinactivation of Photosystem II in vivo is a probability and light-dosage event which depends on the photons absorbed and not the irradiance per se. As the reciprocity law is obeyed and target theory analysis strongly suggests that only one photon is required, we propose that a single dominant molecular mechanism occurs in vivo with one photon inactivating PS II under limiting, saturating or sustained high light. Two mechanisms have been proposed for photoinhibition under high light, acceptor-side and donor-side photoinhibition [see Aro et al. (1994) Biochim Biophys Acta 1143: 113–134], and another mechanism for very low light, the low-light syndrome [Keren et al. (1995) J Biol Chem 270: 806–814]. Based on the exciton-radical pair equilibrium model of exciton dynamics, we propose a unifying mechanism for the photoinactivation of PS II in vivo under steady-state photosynthesis that depends on the generation and maintenance of increased concentrations of the primary radical pair, P680+Pheo−, and the different ways charge recombination is regulated under varying environmental conditions [Anderson et al. (1997) Physiol Plant 100: 214–223]. We suggest that the primary cause of damage to D1 protein is P680+, rather than singlet O2 formed from triplet P680, or other reactive oxygen species.
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  • 5
    ISSN: 1573-5079
    Keywords: chlorophyll fluorescence ; quantum yield ; quenching ; photosynthesis ; Photosystem II
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract We tested the two empirical models of the relationship between chlorophyll fluorescence and photosynthesis, previously published by Weis E and Berry JA 1987 (Biochim Biophys Acta 894: 198–208) and Genty B et al. 1989 (Biochim Biophys Acta 990: 87–92). These were applied to data from different species representing different states of light acclimation, to species with C3 or C4 photosynthesis, and to wild-type and a chlorophyll b-less chlorina mutant of barley. Photosynthesis measured as CO2-saturated O2 evolution and modulated fluorescence were simultaneously monitored over a range of photon flux densities. The quantum yields of O2 evolution (ØO2) were based on absorbed photons, and the fluorescence parameters for photochemical (qp) and non-photochemical (qN) quenching, as well as the ratio of variable fluorescence to maximum fluorescence during steady-state illumination (F'v/F'm), were determined. In accordance with the Weis and Berry model, most plants studied exhibited an approximately linear relationship between ØO2/qp (i.e., the yield of O2 evolution by open Photosystem II reaction centres) and qN, except for wild-type barley that showed a non-linear relationship. In contrast to the linear relationship reported by Genty et al. for qp×F'v/F'm (i.e., the quantum yield of Photosystem II electron transport) and ØCO2, we found a non-linear relationship between qp×F'v/F'm and ØO2 for all plants, except for the chlorina mutant of barley, which showed a largely linear relationship. The curvilinearity of wild-type barley deviated somewhat from that of other species tested. The non-linear part of the relationship was confined to low, limiting photon flux densities, whereas at higher light levels the relationship was linear. Photoinhibition did not change the overall shape of the relationship between qp×F'v/F'm and ØO2 except that the maximum values of the quantum yields of Photosystem II electron transport and photosynthetic O2 evolution decreased in proportion to the degree of photoinhibition. This implies that the quantum yield of Photosystem II electron transport under high light conditions may be similar for photoinhibited and non-inhibited plants. Based on our experimental results and theoretical analyses of photochemical and non-photochemical fluoresce quenching processes, we conclude that both models, although not universal for all plants, provide useful means for the prediction of photosynthesis from fluorescence parameters. However, we also discuss that conditions which alter one or more of the rate constants that determine the various fluorescence parameters, as well as differential light penetration in assays for oxygen evolution and fluorescence emission, may have direct effect on the relationships of the two models.
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  • 6
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    Photosynthesis research 50 (1996), S. 33-40 
    ISSN: 1573-5079
    Keywords: photoinactivation ; photoprotection ; Photosystem II ; target theory
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Application of target theory to the photoinactivation of Photosystem II in pea leaf discs (Park et al. 1995, 1996a,b) reveals that there is a critical light dosage below which there is complete photoprotection and above which there is photoinactivation (i.e a light-induced loss of oxygen flash yield). The critical dosage is about 3 mol photons m−2 for medium and high light-grown leaves and 0.36 mol photons m−2 for low light-grown leaves. Photoinactivation is a one-hit process with an effective cross-section of 0.045 m2 mol−1 photons which does not vary with growth irradiance, unlike the cross-section for oxygen evolution which increases with decreasing growth irradiance. The cross-section for oxygen evolution increased by about 20% following exposure to 6.8 mol photons m−2 which may be due to energy transfer from photoinactivated units to functional Photosystem II units. We propose that the photoinactivation of PS II begins when a small group of PS II pigment molecules whose structure is uninfluenced by growth irradiance, becomes uncoupled energetically from the rest of the photosynthetic unit and thus no longer transfers excitions to P680. De-excitation of this group of pigment molecules provides the energy which leads to the damage of Photosystem II. Treatment of pea leaves with dithiothreitol, an inhibitor of the xanthophyll cycle, decreases the critical dosage i.e. decreases photoprotection but has no effect on the PS II photoinactivation cross-section. Treatment with 1 μM nigericin increased the photoinactivation cross-section of PS II as did exposure to lincomycin which inhibits D1 protein synthesis and thus the repair of PS II reaction centres.
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  • 7
    ISSN: 1573-5079
    Keywords: Mehler reaction ; oxygen ; photoinactivation ; photoprotection ; photorespiration ; Photosystem II
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract The role of electron transport to O2 in mitigating against photoinactivation of Photosystem (PS) II was investigated in leaves of pea (Pisum sativum L.) grown in moderate light (250 μmol m−2 s−1). During short-term illumination, the electron flux at PS II and non-radiative dissipation of absorbed quanta, calculated from chlorophyll fluorescence quenching, increased with increasing O2 concentration at each light regime tested. The photoinactivation of PS II in pea leaves was monitored by the oxygen yield per repetitive flash as a function of photon exposure (mol photons m−2). The number of functional PS II complexes decreased nonlinearly with increasing photon exposure, with greater photoinactivation of PS II at a lower O2 concentration. The results suggest that electron transport to O2, via the twin processes of oxygenase photorespiration and the Mehler reaction, mitigates against the photoinactivation of PS II in vivo, through both utilization of photons in electron transport and increased nonradiative dissipation of excitation. Photoprotection via electron transport to O2 in vivo is a useful addition to the large extent of photoprotection mediated by carbon-assimilatory electron transport in 1.1% CO2 alone.
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