Abstract
Prompt and delayed chlorophyll fluorescence have been studied in broken spinach chloroplasts at pH values down to 2.6. No direct effect of low pH on the primary charge separation in Photosystem II was observed. The irreversible inactivation of a secondary electron donor in a narrow pH range around pH 4.5 was demonstrated. At lower pH values the photooxidized form of a more primary electron donor, revealed by its efficient fluorescence quenching, was reduced with a half time of about 200 μs, 25% by another electron donor and 75% by back reaction with the reduced acceptor. The electron donation had a half time of 800 μs and was practically irreversible. The back reaction had a pH dependent half time: about 270 μs at pH 4 and increasing towards lower pH. The competition of both reactions resulted in a net efficiency of the charge separation at pH 4 of 25%, increasing towards lower pH.
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