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The compatible solute glycine betaine is strongly implicated as an osmoprotectant in cyanobacteria, green algae and higher plants. It was shown that glycine betaine protects photosystem II (PSII) complex against the high salt induced dissociation of the extrinsic proteins ant the manganese cluster (1). A similar type of protective effect of glycine betaine has been observed in the oxygen evolution by cyanobacterial thylakoid membranes against heat inactivation (2). By contrast, glycine betaine as assumed has no stabilizing effect on processes not connected with the oxygen evolving mechanisms of the PSII complex.
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Allakhverdieva, Y.M., Ferimazova, N.N., Gasanov, R.A. (1999). The Stabilizing Effect of Glycine Betaine on the Modified Photosystem II Particles under Heat Stress. In: Argyroudi-Akoyunoglou, J.H., Senger, H. (eds) The Chloroplast: From Molecular Biology to Biotechnology. NATO Science Series, vol 64. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4788-0_56
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