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  • 标题:Proton transport in photooxidation of water: A new perspective on photosynthesis
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  • 作者:Daniel I. Arnon ; Harry Y. Tsujimoto ; George M.-S. Tang
  • 期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
  • 电子版ISSN:1091-6490
  • 出版年度:1981
  • 卷号:78
  • 期号:5
  • 页码:2942-2946
  • DOI:10.1073/pnas.78.5.2942
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
  • 摘要:The currently prevalent concept of the generation of photosynthetic reducing power in oxygen-evolving cells envisions a linear (noncyclic) electron flow from water to ferredoxin (and thence to NADP+) that requires the collaboration of photosystems I and II (PSI and PSII) joined by plastoquinone and other electron carriers (the Z scheme). The essence of the Z scheme is that only PSI can reduce ferredoxin--i.e., that, after being energized to an intermediate reducing potential by PSII, electrons from water are transported via plastoquinone to PSI which energizes the electrons to their ultimate reducing potential adequate for the reduction of ferredoxin. Basic to the Z scheme is the function of plastoquinone as the obligatory link in electron transport from PSII to PSI. However, we have found that, when plastoquinone function was inhibited, ferredoxin was photoreduced by water without the collaboration of PSI. We now report evidence for an important function of plastoquinone in the translocation of protons liberated inside the thylakoid membrane by photooxidation of water. When the oxygenic photoreduction (i.e., by water) of ferredoxin was blocked by plastoquinone inhibitors, dibromothymoquinone or dinitrophenol ether of iodonitrothymol, the photoreduction of ferredoxin was restored by each of four chemically diverse uncouplers, similar only in their ability to facilitate proton movement across membranes. Similar results were obtained for the oxygenic reduction of NADP+. Our results suggest that the light-induced electron flow from water cannot be maintained unless the simultaneously liberated protons are removed from inside the membrane via plastoquinone. The new evidence is embodied in a concept of an oxygenic photosystem for photosynthetic electron and proton transport, which we propose as an alternative to the Z scheme, to account for photoreduction of ferredoxin-NADP+ by water and the coupled oxygenic (formerly noncyclic) ATP formation without involving PSI. The role of the anoxygenic photosystem (formerly called PSI) is ATP formation by cyclic photophosphorylation.
  • 关键词:uncouplers ; plastoquinone ; photosystems I and II ; oxygenic and anoxygenic photosystems
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