Cyclic Photophosphorylation in Vivo and its Relation to Photosynthetic CO2-Fixation

Abstract

Salicylaldoxime (2 × 10⁻³m and less) inhibits cyclic photophosphorylation in intact Chlorella cells severely whereas photosynthetic O₂-evolution and ¹⁴CO₂-fixation is hardly affected. Cyclic photophosphorylation in vivo was measured by following anaerobic light dependent glucose uptake. A similar difference in susceptibility has been observed with carbonylcyanide-p-trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazone. Various controls exclude the possibility that the difference in inhibition was caused by differing experimental conditions or, in the case of glucose assimilation, by an inhibition of a reaction other than photophosphorylation.