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. 1981 Jan;67(1):54–58. doi: 10.1104/pp.67.1.54

Functional and Structural Organization of Chlorophyll in the Developing Photosynthetic Membranes of Euglena gracilis Z

III. SEQUENCE OF EVENTS LEADING TO THE FORMATION OF FUNCTIONAL PHOTOSYSTEM II PHOTOSYNTHETIC UNITS 1

Guy Dubertret 1, Françoise Ambard-Bretteville 1
PMCID: PMC425620  PMID: 16661633

Abstract

Greening cells of Euglena were transferred back to darkness at different stages of chloroplast development in the presence or absence of specific inhibitors of protein synthesis. The analysis of chloroplast components showed that: (a) cycloheximide or streptomycin does not significantly inhibit the formation in darkness of active photosystem II (PSII) reaction centers if added after the lag phase for chloroplast development; (b) a limited number of active reaction centers are formed in the dark, sufficient to increase PSII reaction center to chlorophyll ratios to values close to those found in fully greened cells; (c) these dark-formed reaction centers appear to be inserted in already constituted and complete light-harvesting antennae. These results complement previous ones and lead us to propose a model for a sequential formation of PSII photosynthetic units during greening of Euglena, whereby conformational changes requiring time would allow already synthesized components of PSII reaction centers to be inserted or reorganized as active photochemical complexes in association with previously formed light-harvesting antennae.

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