Interaction of pretilachlor with PS-II activity of the cyanobacterium Desmonostoc muscorum PUPCCC 405.10

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (6) ◽  
pp. 532-542
Author(s):  
Gurdeep Kaur Swatch ◽  
Davinder Pal Singh ◽  
Jasvirinder Singh Khattar ◽  
Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra
Keyword(s):  
Ps Ii ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 37 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 256-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Schuler ◽  
P. Brandt ◽  
W. Wießner

Abstract An improved method for isolation of (photosystem II)-particles from Euglena gracilis, strain Z was established. PS II-particles isolated by ultrasonic treatment and following differential centrifugation show fluorescence emission and absorption spectra identical with in vivo properties of Euglena gracilis. These PS II-particles have only PS II-activity and contain CP a, the typical chlorophyll-protein-complex of PS II. No contamination of PS I-components are detectable.


1976 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
L A Staehelin

Freeze-fracture and freeze-etch techniques have been employed to study the supramolecular structure of isolated spinach chloroplast membranes and to monitor structural changes associated with in vitro unstacking and restacking of these membranes. High-resolution particle size histograms prepared from the four fracture faces of normal chloroplast membranes reveal the presence of four distinct categories of intramembranous particles that are nonrandomly distributed between grana and stroma membranes. The large surface particles show a one to one relationship with the EF-face particles. Since the distribution of these particles between grana and stroma membranes coincides with the distribution of photosystem II (PS II) activity, it is argued that they could be structural equivalents of PS II complexes. An interpretative model depicting the structural relationship between all categories of particles is presented. Experimental unstacking of chloroplast membranes in low-salt medium for at least 45 min leads to a reorganization of the lamellae and to a concomitant intermixing of the different categories of membrane particles by means of translational movements in the plane of the membrane. In vitro restacking of such experimentally unstacked chloroplast membranes can be achieved by adding 2-20 mM MgCl2 or 100-200 mM NaCl to the membrane suspension. Membranes allowed to restack for at least 1 h at room temperature demonstrate a resegregation of the EF-face particles into the newly formed stacked membrane regions to yield a pattern and a size distribution nearly indistinguishable from the normally stacked controls. Restacking occurs in two steps: a rapid adhesion of adjoining stromal membrane surfaces with little particle movement, and a slower diffusion of additional large intramembranous particles into the stacked regions where they become trapped. Chlorophyll a:chlorophyll b ratios of membrane fraction obtained from normal, unstacked, and restacked membranes show that the particle movements are paralleled by movements of pigment molecules. The directed and reversible movements of membrane particles in isolated chloroplasts are compared with those reported for particles of plasma membranes.


1980 ◽  
Vol 35 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 477-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Fujimura ◽  
F. Yoshii ◽  
I. Kaetsu ◽  
Y. Inoue ◽  
K. Shibata

Abstract The effect of y-ray irradiation and immobilization by means of radiation polymerization on PS II activity (O2 evolution) of isolated chloroplasts from spinach was investigated. Reduction of O2 evolution activity by irradiation was small at lower temperatures below – 24 °C, but the activity decreased slightly by freezing at extremely low temperature below –78 °C. So the optimum low temperature range for the treatment was observed. The immobilized chloroplast in a hydrophilic polymer matrix showed the stable duration of O2 evolution activity more than 700 h at 4 °C . Thermo-stability of chloroplast was also improved greatly by immobilization. The active center of PS II in immobilized chloroplasts was retained even after 60 min standing at 50 °C.


Author(s):  
Galina Smolikova ◽  
Vitaliy Lebedev ◽  
Vasiliy Lopatov ◽  
Valentina Timoshchuk ◽  
Sergei Medvedev

Dynamics of the PS II activity in the pod walls, seed coat and embryo cotyledons at early and middle maturation stages of Brassica nigra L. has been studied using the Junior-PAM fluorometer (Heinz Walz Gmbh, Germany). The maximum quantum yield Fv/Fm, effective quantum yield Y(II) and coefficient of photochemical fluorescence quenching qP have been evaluated. We demonstrated maturation-dependent fluctuation of the PS II activity in the different part of seeds: Fv/Fm, Y(II) and qP decreased in the pod walls and seed coat, but increased in the cotyledons of embryo. During transition from early to middle stage of maturation, the maximal electron transport rate of PS II in the cotyledons increased and reached the maximum at higher level of photosynthetic active radiation. Improving the efficiency of PS II in the developing cotyledons of the embryo can be attributed to adaptation of the chloroplasts to a higher light probably due to the increase of light transmission through the seed coat and pericarp at later stages of seed maturation. Refs 29. Figs. 3.


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