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：1974
卷号：71
期号：3
页码：807-810
DOI：10.1073/pnas.71.3.807
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：The envelope of the spinach chloroplast is a yellow membrane system with a unique carotenoid composition. Envelopes prepared from dark-treated leaves had a violaxanthin content up to 3.5 times the lutein plus zeaxanthin content, whereas in chloroplast envelopes from illuminated leaves this ratio was only 0.75. Light-catalyzed changes in violaxanthin content also occurred in the thylakoid fraction. The role of this reversible light-catalyzed de-epoxidation of violaxanthin in the function of the envelope of the chloroplast is discussed.
