PMID: 13568740Jul 11, 1958Paper

Photosynthesis

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O WARBURG

Abstract

With the establishment of conditions for optimum culturing and measurement, there is now final proof that in photosynthesis at high as well as low light intensities the light energy can be almost completely converted into chemical energy. There is thus drawn to a close an investigation that was initiated many years ago in Berlin in the Imperial Institute of Physics (9). The second result is the establishment of a general physical mechanism of photosynthesis, involving an interplay between light energy and respiratory energy, and therewith the solution of the quantum problem in photosynthesis. The third result is the establishment of the function of chlorophyll as a stoichiometric, chemically reacting component in photosynthesis. There remains the special chemistry of photosynthesis. In this still-unfinished field of investigation, the latest discovery is the labile carbon dioxide of Chlorella, connected with the decomposition and resynthesis of glutamic acid in living Chlorella, and connected with the possible function of the amino acids, aspartic and glutamic, in the binding and reduction of carbonic acid. The dissociating CO(2) is bound by Chlorella only in the presence of O(2) and of cellular glutamic acid. This CO(2) is rel...Continue Reading

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Jul 3, 2007·Photosynthesis Research·Ekkehard Höxtermann
Oct 1, 1962·Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology·J A BASSHAM, M CALVIN
Jan 1, 1974·Environmental Letters·M Jacobson, W A Jones
Oct 7, 1960·Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta·J A BASSHAM, M KIRK
Oct 1, 1959·Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta·D O HALLA WALLACE
Jan 15, 1963·Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta·J C GOEDHEER
Jun 14, 2014·Photosynthesis Research·Jane F Hill, Govindjee
Jul 1, 1992·The New Phytologist·David Walker

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