Abstract
The prevailing understanding on the light reaction of oxygenic photosynthesis (photolytic photophosphorylation & NADPH synthesis) considers the vast majority of the diverse pigments, chlorophyll binding proteins (CBPs) and light harvesting complexes (LHCs) as photon-energy relaying facets; only the chlorophyll a couplets at the reaction center of the two photosystems I & II are deemed to serve as photo-excitable electron emitters. Highlighting the historical perspectives involved, we present reasons why this conventional perception is unmet by theoretical foundations, unsupported by molecular awareness on the various pigments and unverified by physiological data available on chloroplasts. Further, we propose a simple diffusible reactive oxygen species (DROS)-based mechanism for correlating the functions of various light harvesting LHCs and CBPs with the reaction centers of Photosystems I & II. The projected hypothesis may also provide a new perspective to photoreception research.
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