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Artificial increase of the light-harvesting ability of photosynthetic units in isolated chloroplasts

✍ Scribed by E. M. Sorokin; G. S. Bobylyev; Y. G. Molotkovsky

Publisher
Springer
Year
1990
Tongue
English
Weight
357 KB
Volume
26
Category
Article
ISSN
0166-8595

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✦ Synopsis

A synthetic fluorochromous lipid, rhodaminyl triglyceride (rhodaminyl TG), was intercalated into isolated thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts up to 30 molecules per 100 molecules of chlorophyll. As a result of fluorochrome presence, an absorption band appeared in a yellow-green spectrum region, its intensity being comparable with the red and blue chlorophyll bands. The energy absorbed by rhodaminyl TG was transferred through chlorophyll to the reaction centers of photosystems I and II, inducing an additional electron flow of about 30%. Therefore the exogenous fluorochrome dissolved in lipid matrix functions as an accessory pigment which significantly modifies the spectral sensitivity of the photosynthetic process. The energy transfer from rhodaminyl TG to chlorophyll occurs by mechanism of the inductive resonance type.

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