Fluorescence lifetimes of protochlorophyllide in plants with different proportions of short-wavelength and long-wavelength protochlorophyllide spectral forms[para]

Photochemistry and Photobiology, Aug 2003 by Mysliwa-Kurdziel, Beata, Amirjani, Mohammad R, Strzalka, Kazimierz, Sundqvist, Christer

Acknowledgements-The authors thank Dr. William Thompson and Dr. Shannon Frances for the supply of lip1 seeds. The financial support from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Scientific Research Council (C.S.), the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (M.R.A.) and the Polish Academy of Sciences (K.S.) is gratefully acknowledged. This paper was also supported by the European Union (contract BIER ICA1-CT-2000-70012).

[para]Posted on the website on 5 June 2003

REFERENCES

1. Klement, H., M. Helfrich, U. Oster, S. Schoch and W. Rudiger (1999) Pigment-free NADPH:protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase from Avena sativa L purification and substrate specificity. Eur. J. Biochem. 265, 862-874.

2. Wilks, H. M. and M. P. Timko (1995) A light-dependent complementation system for analysis of NADPH:protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase: identification and mutagenesis of two conserved residues that are essential for activity. Proc. Nalt. Acad. Sci USA 92, 724-728.

3. Boddi, B., M. Ryberg and C. Sundqvist (1992) Identification of four universal protochlorophyllide forms in dark-grown leaves by analyses of the 77 K fluorescence emission spectra. J. Photochem. Photobiol. B: Biol. 12, 389-401.

4. Lebedev, N. and M. P. Timko (2002) POR structural domains important for the enzyme activity in R. capsulatus complementation system. Photosynth. Res. 74, 153-163.

5. Boddi, B., A. Lindsten, M. Ryberg and C. Sundqvist (1989) On the aggregational states of protochlorophyllide and its protein complexes in wheat etioplasts. Physiol. Plant. 76, 135-143.

6. Wiktorsson, B., S. Engdahl, L. B. Zhong, B. Boddi, M. Ryberg and C. Sundqvist (1993) The effect of cross-linking of the subunits of NADPH-protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase on the aggregation state of protochlorophyllide. Photosynthetica 29, 205-218.

7. Ryberg, M. and K. Dehesh (1986) Localisation of NADPH-protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase in dark-grown wheat (Triticum aestivum) by immuno-electron microscopy before and after tranformation of the prolamellar bodies. Physiol. Plant. 66, 616-624.

8. Shioi, Y. and T. Sasa (1984) Chlorophyll formation in the YG-6 mutant of Chlorella vulgaris: spectral characterization of protochlorophyllide phototransformation. Plant Cell Physiol. 25, 139-149.

9. Virgin, H. I. (1993) Effectiveness of light of different wavelengths to induce chlorophyll biosynthesis in rapidly and slowly greening tissues. Physiol. Plant. 89, 761-766.

10. Lindsten, A., M. Ryberg and C. Sundqvist (1988) The polypeptide composition of highly purified prolamellar bodies and prothylakoids from wheat (Triticum aestivum) as revealed by silver staining. Physiol. Plant. 72, 167-176.

11. Franck, F., U. Sperling, G. Frick, B. Pochert, B. van Cleve, K. Apel and G. A. Armstrong (2000) Regulation of etioplast pigment-protein complexes, inner membrane architecture, and protochlorophyllide a chemical heterogenity by light-dependent NADPH:protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase A and B. Plant Physiol. 124, 1678-1696.

12. Sperling, V., F. Frank, B. van Cleve, G. Frick, K. Apel and G. A. Armstrong (1998) Etioplast differentiation in Arabidopsis: both PORA and PORB restore the prolamellar body membrane and photoactive protochlorophyllide-F 655 to the Cop1 photomorphogenic mutant. Plant Cell 10, 283-296.