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. 1979 Apr;63(4):605–608. doi: 10.1104/pp.63.4.605

Effects of Disalicylidenepropanediamines on Photosynthetic Electron Transport of Isolated Spinach Chloroplasts

Norbert Laasch 1, Werner Kaiser 1, Wolfgang Urbach 1
PMCID: PMC542881  PMID: 16660776

Abstract

The effects of disalicylidenepropanediamine (DSPD) and disulfo-disalicylidenepropanediamine (sulfo-DSPD) on the photosynthetic electron transport of isolated chloroplasts have been reexamined.

Our data suggest that DSPD, but not sulfo-DSPD, is an effective inhibitor of electron transport between photosystem II and photosystem I before or at plastocyanin. Furthermore, both DSPD and sulfo-DSPD block electron transport at the site of ferredoxin.

Under certain conditions DSPD and even more so sulfo-DSPD function as autooxidizable electron acceptors.

Finally it is shown that DSPD can cause an inhibition of photophosphorylation.

According to our results the use of DSPD as a specific inhibitor of ferredoxin-dependent reactions has to be questioned.

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