Abstract
The long-term fluorescence induction in Chlorella pyrenoidosa consists of a fast rise of the fluorescence yield from the level S (of the first wave transient) to a maximum M, followed by slower decay to a terminal stationary level T. The maximum M is attained within 40 seconds from the onset of illumination while the decay to the terminal level T lasts for several minutes. The fluorescence rise (S → M) coincides with an increase in the rate of oxygen evolution, which, however, remains constant during the fluorescence decay (M → T). Poisons of photosynthesis 3, (3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1 dimethylurea (DCMU, o-phenathroline) inhibit the fluorescence induction, while uncouplers of photophosphorylation affect the fluorescence time course only when they function at an early stage of the coupling sequence e.g., carbonyl cyanide p-trifluoremethoxy phenylhydrazone, (FCCP, atabrin). Phosphorylation inhibitors affecting only the terminal esterification step (phlorizin) have little effect on the fluorescence kinetics. These results suggest that the fluorescence induction requires the operation of a phosphorylating electron transport and that it is possibly related to the light-induced structural changes which accompany photophosphorylation.
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