Journal
FEBS LETTERS
Volume 592, Issue 18, Pages 3030-3039Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.13111
Keywords
aggregation; chlorophyll; LHCII; light harvesting; nonphotochemical fluorescence quenching; proton gradient; zeaxanthin
Funding
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
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In 1991, my colleagues and I published a hypothesis article that proposed a mechanism that controls light harvesting in plants and protects them against photodamage. The major light harvesting complex, LHCII, was suggested to undergo aggregation upon exposure of the plant to damaging levels of light. Aggregated LHCII was found to be much less efficient in light harvesting, as it promptly dissipated absorbed energy into heat, possessing a very low chlorophyll fluorescence yield. Nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ) is a term coined to describe this reduction in chlorophyll fluorescence yield. This article is a story of how the hypothesis that LHCII aggregation is involved in NPQ is developed into a model that is now becoming broadly accepted by the research community.
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