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PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH
Volume 95, Issue 2-3, Pages 229-235Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11120-007-9262-1
Keywords
light-harvesting complex; LI818; non-photochemical quenching (NPQ); xanthophyll cycle; aggregation
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The fluorescence yield of isolated fucoxanthin chlorophyll proteins, serving as light harvesting proteins in diatoms, was compared to the amount of diatoxanthin bound. Diatoxanthin was earlier shown to be involved in the xanthophyll cycle in diatoms as a functional analogue of zeaxanthin in higher plants. By growing cells under different light conditions, the amount of diatoxanthin in both the trimeric FCPa as well as the oligomeric FCPb of the diatom Cyclotella meneghiniana was increased. In the trimeric FCPa, the fluorescence yield decreased with increasing diatoxanthin content, whereas in the oligomeric FCPb fluorescence was generally lower, albeit constant. No pH dependence of fluorescence yield could be demonstrated except for artificially aggregated FCPa. Thus, diatoxanthin is able to quench fluorescence in FCPa, but the yield is also influenced by pH when the protein becomes aggregated.
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