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PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH
Volume 97, Issue 3, Pages 195-204Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11120-008-9336-8
Keywords
energy dissipation; fluorescence quenching; long-wavelength chlorophyll; phycobilisomes; photosystem I; terminal emitter
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- Russian Academy of Sciences
- Russian Foundation of Basic Research [08-04-00143a]
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Two mechanisms of photoprotective dissipation of the excessively absorbed energy by photosynthetic apparatus of cyanobacteria are described that divert energy from reaction centers. Energy dissipation, monitored as nonphotochemical fluorescence quenching, occurs at different steps of energy transfer within the phycobilisomes or core antenna of photosystem I. Although these mechanisms differ significantly, in both cases, energy dissipates mainly from terminal emitters: allophycocyanin B or core membrane linker protein (L-CM) in phycobilisomes, or the longest-wavelength chlorophylls in photosystem I antenna. It is supposed that carotenoid-induced energy dissipation in phycobilisomes is triggered by light-induced transformation of the nonquenched state of antenna into quenched state due to conformation changes caused by orange carotinoid-binding protein (OCP)-phycobilisome interaction. Fluorescence of the longest-wavelength chlorophylls of photosystem I antenna is strongly quenched by P700 cation radical or by P700 triplet state, dependent on redox state of the acceptor side cofactors of photosystem I.
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