Abstract
Light-shade adaptation of the chlorophyll a/b containing procaryote Prochlorothrix hollandica was studied in semicontinuous cultures adapted to 8, 80 and 200 μmole quanta per square meter per second. Chlorophyll a contents based on dry weight differed by a factor of 6 and chlorophyll b by a factor of 2.5 between the two extreme light conditions. Light utilization efficiencies determined from photosynthesis response curves were found to decrease in low light grown cultures due to lower light harvesting efficiencies; quantum requirements were constant at limiting and saturating irradiances for growth. At saturating growth irradiances, changes in light saturated oxygen evolution rate originated from changes in chlorophyll a antenna relative to the number of reaction centers II. At light-limiting conditions both the number of reaction centers II and the antenna size changed. The amount of chlorophyll b relative to reaction center II remained constant. As in cyanobacteria, the ratio of reaction center I to reaction center II was modulated during light-shade adaptation. On the other hand, time constants for photosynthetic electron transport (4 milliseconds) were low as observed in green algae and diatoms. The occurrence of state one to two and state two to one transitions is reported here. Another feature linking photosynthetic electron transport in P. hollandica to that in the eucaryotic photosynthetic apparatus was blockage of the state one to two transition by 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea. Although chlorophyll b was reported in association with photosystem I, the 630 nanometer light effect does not exclude that chlorophyll b is the photoreceptor for the state one to two transition.
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