Abstract
Abstract It has been postulated that the oxygen-evolving centers of photosystem II do not operate independently in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus leopoliensis in contrast to those of the chlorophyte Chlorella vulgaris and the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum (Mauzerall and Dubinsky (1993), Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1183, 123-129). Dependence would mean the existence of charge transfer among adjacent units and would be manifested by different saturation curves for the individual flashes of a sequence (different cross-sections), stronger damped oscillations and oxygen formation under the first flash, independently of the length of dark adaptation. We show in the present publication that in the filamentous cyanobacterium Oscillatoria chalybea the O2-evolution pattern which shows an O2-signal under the first flash (despite dark adaptation) can be explained within the heterogeneous Kok-model, assuming a non-standard initial S-state distribution (Bader, Thibault and Schmid (1983), Z. Naturforsch. 38c. 778-792).
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