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PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH
Volume 98, Issue 1-3, Pages 159-167Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11120-008-9302-5
Keywords
FTIR; Herbicide; Plastoquinone; Photosystem II; Thermoluminescence
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- Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, Culture and Technology [17GS0314, 18570145]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [18570145] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The redox potential of Q(A) in photosystem II (PSII) is known to be lower by similar to 100 mV in the presence of phenolic herbicides compared with the presence of DCMU-type herbicides. In this study, the structural basis underlying the herbicide effects on the Q(A) redox potential was studied using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. Light-induced Q(A)(-)/Q(A) FTIR difference spectra of Mn-depleted PSII membranes in the presence of DCMU, atrazine, terbutryn, and bromacil showed a strong CO stretching peak of Q(A)(-) at 1,479 cm(-1), while binding of phenolic herbicides, bromoxynil and ioxynil, induced a small but clear downshift by similar to 1 cm(-1). The CO peak positions and the small frequency difference were reproduced in the S(2)Q(A)(-)/S(1)Q(A) spectra of oxygen-evolving PSII membranes with DCMU and bromoxynil. The relationship of the CO frequency with herbicide species correlated well with that of the peak temperatures of thermoluminescence due to S(2)Q(A)(-) recombination. Density functional theory calculations of model hydrogen-bonded complexes of plastoquinone radical anion showed that the small shift of the CO frequency is consistent with a change in the hydrogen-bond structure most likely as a change in its strength. The Q(A)(-)/Q(A) spectra in the presence of bromoxynil, and ioxynil, which bear a nitrile group in the phenolic ring, also showed CN stretching bands around 2,210 cm(-1). Comparison with the CN frequencies of bromoxynil in solutions suggested that the phenolic herbicides take a phenotate anion form in the Q(B) pocket. It was proposed that interaction of the phenolic C-O- with D1-His215 changes the strength of the hydrogen bond between the CO of Q(A) with D2-His214 via the iron-histidine bridge, causing the decrease in the Q(A) redox potential.
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