Abstract
After solubilization of photosynthetic membranes by digitonin, three main protein pigment complexes were isolated by electrophoresis with deoxycholate as detergent.
The band with the slowest mobility, fraction 1, had PS 1 activity and was devoid of PS 2 activity. This fraction was four times enriched in P700 when compared with chloroplasts. Fraction 1 had little chl b, a long wavelength absorption maximum in the red, a maximum of low temperature emission fluorescence at 730nm, and a circular dichroism spectrum characteristic of PS 1 enriched fraction.
Fraction 2 exhibited a PS 2 activity and no PS 1 activity. It was enriched five times in PS 2 reaction centre and had little chl b and carotenoids. The absorption maximum was at 674 nm and the low temperature fluorescence emission maximum was at 700 nm. Fraction 2 might be useful PS 2 enriched particle because of the great stability of this fraction with regard to photochemical activity and also rapidity and simplicity of its preparation.
Fraction 3, which had the fastest migration, was devoid of photochemical activities; It was rich in chl b and had the fluorescence and the circular dichroism spectrum characteristic of an antenna complex.
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Abbreviations
- PS 1 (2):
-
photosystem 1 (2)
- chl:
-
chlorophyll
- car:
-
carotenoid
- Q:
-
primary plastoquinone electron acceptor
- P700:
-
primary electron donor of PS 1
- P680:
-
primary electron donor of PS 2
- K3Fe(CN)6 :
-
potassium ferricyanide
- DCMU:
-
dichlorophenyldimethylurea
- DCPIP:
-
dichlorophenolindophenol
- DPC:
-
diphenyl-carbazide
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Picaud, A., Acker, S. & Duranton, J. A single step separation of PS 1, PS 2 and chlorophyll-antenna particles from spinach chloroplasts. Photosynth Res 3, 203–213 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00032257
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