Effects of pH and Oxygen on Photosynthetic Reactions of Intact Chloroplasts 1
AUTOR(ES)
Heber, Ulrich
RESUMO
Oxygen inhibition of photosynthesis was studied with intact spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) chloroplasts which exhibited very high rates of photosynthetic CO2 reduction and were insensitive to additions of photosynthetic intermediates when CO2 was available at saturating concentrations. Photosynthetic rates were measured polarographically as O2 evolution, and the extent of the reduction of substrate was estimated from the amount of O2 evolved. With CO2 as substrate, inhibition of photosynthesis by O2 was dependent on pH. At pH values above 8, rates of O2 evolution were strongly inhibited by O2 and only a fraction of the added bicarbonate was reduced before O2 evolution ceased. The extent of O2 evolution declined with increasing O2 concentration and decreasing initial bicarbonate concentration. At pH 7.2, the initial photosynthetic rate was inhibited about 30% at high O2 levels, but the extent of O2 evolution was unaffected and most of the added bicarbonate was reduced. Photosynthetic O2 evolution with 3-phosphoglycerate as substrate was similarly dependent on pH and O2 concentration. In contrast, there was little effect of O2 and pH on oxaloacetate-dependent oxygen evolution. Acid-base shift experiments with osmotically shocked chloroplasts showed that ATP formation was not affected by O2. The results are discussed in terms of a balance between photosynthetic O2 evolution and O2 consumption by the ribulose diphosphate oxygenase reaction.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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