PMID: 16521555Mar 9, 2006Paper

Kinetics of pigment-acceptor interaction induced by steady-state illumination in Synechocystis spaeroides photosystem I preparations cooled to 160 K in the dark and on light

Biofizika
P P NoksA Rubin

Abstract

The kinetics of dark reduction of chlorophyll P700 oxidized by steady-state illumination in photosystem I reaction center preparations of cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. coolled in the dark to 160 K is greatly nonexponential. The characteristic times for the components of the reaction are from fractions of a second to minutes and more. During cooling reaction center preparations on actinic light, a great part of chlorophyll P700 is fixed at 160 K in oxidized state. The kinetics of dark reduction of P700+ in the fraction of reaction centers that retain the photochemical activity in these conditions is faster than the kinetics in samples cooled in the dark. A theoretical analysis of the substantial deceleration of the P700+ dark recovery kinetics was done for photosystem I reaction center preparations oxidized by steady-state illumination to 160 K in contrast with situation that arises after the oxidation of reaction centers by single short light pulses. The deceleration of the kinetics in samples activated by steady-state illumination can be explained by processes of microconformational relaxation, connected with proton shifts in the reaction center structure.

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