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. 1985 Feb;77(2):509–511. doi: 10.1104/pp.77.2.509

Fermentative Metabolism of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii1

II. Role of Plastoquinone

Rene P Gfeller 1,2, Martin Gibbs 1
PMCID: PMC1064549  PMID: 16664088

Abstract

Evidence is presented to substantiate a chloroplastic respiratory pathway in the green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, whereby reducing equivalents generated during the degradation of starch enter the thylakoidal chain at the plastoquinone site catalyzed by NADH-plastoquinone reductase. In this formulation, the reduced plastoquinone is oxidized either by the photoevolution (photosystem I) of H2 under anaerobic conditions or by O2 during dark respiration.

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