Studies on Cation-induced Thylakoid Membrane Stacking, Fluorescence Yield, and Photochemical Efficiency
- 1 December 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Physiology
- Vol. 62 (6), 879-884
- https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.62.6.879
Abstract
Trypsin digestion of photosynthetic membranes isolated from spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) leaves eliminates the cation stimulation of chlorophyll fluorescence. High concentrations of cations protect the fluoresence yield against trypsin digestion, and the cation specificity for this protection closely resembles that required for the stimulation of fluorescence by cations. Trypsin digestion reverses cation-induced thylakoid stacking, and the time course of this effect seems to parallel that of the reversal of cation fluorescence. High concentrations of cations protect thylakoid stacking and cation-stimulated fluorescence alike. The cation stimulation of photosystem II photochemistry remains intact after trypsinization has reversed both cation-induced thylakoid stacking and fluorescence yield. Probably cation-stimulated fluorescence yield, and not the cation stimulation of photosystem II photochemistry, is associated with thylakoid membrane stacking.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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