The Chlorophyll-Protein Complex. II. Species Relationships in Certain Legumes as Shown by Electric Mobility Curves

1943 ◽  
Vol 104 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence S. Moyer ◽  
Myer M. Fishman
1979 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger G. Hiller ◽  
Theodora B.G. Pilger ◽  
Donna Campbell

1974 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 239-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.G. Hiller ◽  
Sandra Genge ◽  
Dori Pilger

1981 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
C O Siegel ◽  
A E Jordan ◽  
K R Miller

We have carried out a series of experiments in which the lipid composition of the photosynthetic membrane has been altered by the addition of lipid from a defined source under experimental conditions. Liposomes prepared by sonication are mixed with purified photosynthetic membranes obtained from spinach chloroplasts and are taken through cycles of freezing and thawing. Several lines of evidence, including gel electrophoresis and freeze-fracture electron microscopy, indicate that an actual addition of lipid has taken place. Structural analysis by freeze-fracture shows that intramembrane particles are widely separated after the addition of large amounts of lipid, with one exception: large hexagonal lattices of particles appear in some regions of the membrane. These lattices are identical in appearance with lattices formed from a single purified component of the membrane known as chlorophyll-protein complex II. The suggestion that the presence of such lattices in lipid-enriched membranes reflects a profound rearrangement of photosynthetic structures has been confirmed by analysis of the fluorescence emission spectra of natural and lipid-enriched membranes. Specifically, lipid addition in each of the cases we have studied results in the apparent detachment of chlorophyll-protein complex II from photosynthetic reaction centers. It is concluded that specific arrangements of components in the photosynthetic membrane, necessary for the normal functioning of the membrane in the light reaction of photosynthesis, can be regulated to a large extent by the lipid content of the membrane.


2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (11) ◽  
pp. 2692-2699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emile Levy ◽  
Elodie Harmel ◽  
Martine Laville ◽  
Rocio Sanchez ◽  
Léa Emonnot ◽  
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