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  • Title: [Bacteriochlorophyll fluorescence changes related to the bacteriopheophytin photoreduction in the chromatophores of purple sulfur bacteria].
    Author: Klimov VV, Shuvalov VA, Krakhmaleva IN, Karapetian NV, Krasiovskiĭ AA.
    Journal: Biokhimiia; 1976 Aug; 41(8):1435-41. PubMed ID: 1024595.
    Abstract:
    It is shown that illumination of chromatophores of sulfur bacterium Chromatium minutissimum at Eh of the medium --200 mV divided by --620 mV (when the photooxidation of pigment P890 is completely inhibited) induces a decrease in bacteriochlorophyll fluorescence yield, reversible in the dark. Under these conditions a reversible photoreduction of bacteriopheophytin is detected (bleaching of absorption bands at 543 and 760 nm and development of a band at 650 nm), which is accompanied by a blue shift of the absorption band at 8 nm. As a possible interpretation of these effects the suggestion is made on the function of bacteriopheophytin as a primary electron acceptor in reaction centers of bacteria. The bacteriopheophytin photoreduction, followed by a decrease in fluorescence yield, is also observed in other sulfur bacteria, Thiocapsa roseopersicina and Ectothiorodospira shaposhnikovii, but it is not detected in nonsulfur bacteria, Rhodospirillum rubrum and Rhodopseudomonas spheroides. This is considered as an evidence for the difference in the functional organization of the reaction centers of these two groups of bacteria,
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