Following the path of carbon in photosynthesis: A personal story

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 73, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 29-49

  Benson, Andrew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hiroshi Tamiya; Jacques Mayaudon; James Bassham; Martin Kamen; Melvin Calvin; Phosphoglyceric acid; Radioactive carbon 14; Ribulose diphosphate (now called ribulose bisphosphate); Samuel Ruben

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036409693     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020427619771     Document Type: Review

References (85)

1. Andrews TJ, Lorimer GH and Tolbert NE (1973) (Year 1971 in the text. Pls check) Ribulose diphosphate oxygenase I. Synthesis of phosphoglycolate by fraction 1 protein of leaves. Biochemistry 12: 11-18
2. Aubert J-P, Milhaud G and Millet J (1955) Metabolisme du carbone dans la chimioautotrophie. Mode d'incorporation de l'anhydride carbonique. C R Seances Acad Sci 240: 2178-2179
3. Baly ECC (1940) Photosynthesis. Van Nostrand, New York
4. Baly ECC and Hood NR (1929) The photosynthesis of naturally occurring compounds: IV. The compounds: IV. The temperature coefficient of the photosynthesis of carbohydrates from carbonic acid. Proc R Soc London Ser A 122: 393-398
5. Baly ECC, Stephen WE and Hood NR (1927) The photosynthesis of naturally occurring compounds: II. The photosynthesis of carbohydrates from carbonic acid by means of visible light. Proc R Soc London Ser A 122: 212-219
6. Barltrop JA, Hayes PM and, Calvin M (1954) The Chemistry chemistry of 1,2-dithiolane (trimethylene disulfide) as a Model model for the primary quantum conversion act in photosynthesis. J Am Chem Soc 76: 4348-4367
7. Bassham JA (1964) Kinetic studies of the photosynthetic carbon reduction cycle. Annu Rev Plant Physiol 15: 101-120
8. Bassham JA and Calvin M (1957) The Path of Carbon in Photosynthesis. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
9. 2 in the dark by preilluminated Chlorella. In: Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists (ed) Studies on Microalgae and Photosynthetic Bacteria (special issue of Plant and Cell Physiology), pp 493-503. The University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo
10. Bassham JA, Benson AA, Kay LD, Harris AZ, Wilson AT and Calvin M (1954) The path of carbon in photosynthesis. XXI. The cyclic regeneration of carbon dioxide acceptor. J Am Chem Soc 76: 1760-1770
11. 2 photosynthesis products. J Am Chem Soc 73: 2971
12. Benson AA (1952) Mechanism of biochemical photosynthesis. Z Elektrochem 56: 848-854
13. Benson AA (1977) Philosophy of the tracer method. Radioisotopes 26: 348-356
14. Benson AA (1981) Molecular exploration in unknown metabolic worlds. In: Kagayama M. Nakamura K, Oshima T, Uchida T (eds) Science and Scientists, pp 207-212. Japan Scientific Societies Press, Tokyo
15. Benson AA (1982) Tracers in biology. In: Kaplan NO and Robinson A (eds) From Cyclotrons to Cytochromes, pp 59-65. Academic Press, New York
16. Benson AA (1987a) Carboxylation from Ruben to rubisco. Presented at the Oji International Seminar (October 20-24, 1986, Kashiko-jima, Mie, Japan) on 'New Aspects of Plant Cell Biology and Molecular Biology,' sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the Fujihara Science Foundation (Tokyo), and organized by Takashi Akazawa, Masahiro Sugiura, Tatsuo Sugiyama, Akira Watanabe and Tetsuko Takabe, see book of abstracts, p 8
17. Benson AA (1987b) Radiochromatographic exploration. J Am Oil Chemists Soc 64: 1309-1314
18. Benson AA (1990) Photosynthesis in the dark ages before regulation. In: Kanai R, Katoh S and Miyachi S (eds) Regulation of Photosynthetic Processes. Bot Mag Tokyo (special issue)
19. Benson AA (1995) Saga of a great theory of photosynthesis. Am Soc Plant Physiol Newslett 22: 5-6
20. Benson AA (1996) Naïve steps along the path. C R Acad Sci Paris Life Sci 319: 843-847
21. Benson AA (1998) The path of carbon in photosynthesis: 1942-1955. In: Kung S-D and Yang S-F (eds) Discoveries in Plant Biology, Vol 1, pp 197-213. World Scientific Publishing, Singapore
22. Benson AA (2002) Paving the path. Annu Rev Plant Biol 53: 1-25
23. Benson AA and Calvin M (1947) The dark reductions of photosynthesis. Science 105: 648-649
24. Benson AA and Calvin M (1948) The Path of Carbon in Photosynthesis. Cold Spring Harbor Symp Quant Biol 13: 6-10
25. Benson AA and Calvin M (1950a) Path of carbon in photosynthesis VII. Respiration and photosynthesis. J Exp Bot 1: 63-68
26. Benson AA and Calvin M (1950b) Carbon dioxide fixation by green plants. Annu Rev Plant Physiol 1: 25-42
27. Benson AA and Miyachi S (1992) Interview. Cell Sci (Japan) 8: 55-69
28. 14 in photosynthesis. In: Franck J and Loomis WE (eds) Photosynthesis in Plants, pp 381-401. Iowa State College Press, Ames, Iowa
29. Benson AA, Bassham JA, Calvin M, Goodale TC, Hass VA and Stepka W (1950) Paper chromatography and radioautography of the products. J Am Chem Soc 72: 1710-1718
30. Benson AA, Bassham JA and Calvin M (1951) Sedoheptulose in photosynthesis by plants. J Am Chem Soc 73: 2970
31. Benson AA, Bassham JA, Calvin M, Hall AG, Hirsch HE, Kawaguchi S and Tolbert NE (1952a) The path of carbon in photosynthesis XV. Ribulose and sedoheptulose. J Biol Chem 196: 703-715
32. Benson AA, Kawaguchi S, Hayes P and Calvin M (1952b) The path of carbon in photosynthesis XVI. Kinetic relationships of the intermediates in steady state photosynthesis. J Am Chem Soc 74: 4477-4482
33. Benson AA, Daniel H and Wiser R (1959) A sulfolipid in plants. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 45: 1582-1587
34. Blackman FF (1905) Optima and limiting factors. Ann Bot LXXIV: 281-295
35. Brown AH, Fager EW and Gaffron H (1948) Assimilation of tracer carbon in the alga Scenedesmus. Arch Biochem 19: 407-428
36. Brown AH, Fager EW and Gaffron H (1949) Kinetics of a photochemical intermediate in photosynthesis. In: Franck J and Loomis WE (eds) Photosynthesis in Plants. pp 403-422. Iowa State College Press, Ames, Iowa
37. Burr GO, Hartt CE, Brodie HW, Tanimoto T, Kortschak HP, Takahashi D, Ashton FM and Coleman RE (1957) The sugarcane plant. Annu Rev Plant Physiol 8: 275-308
38. Calvin M (1949) The path of carbon in photosynthesis, VI. J Chem Educ 26: 639-657
39. Calvin M (1954) Chemical and photochemical reactions of thioctic acid and related disulfides. Fed Proc 13: 697-711
40. Calvin M (1956) The photosynthetic carbon cycle. In: Liébecq C (ed) Proceedings of the Third International Congress in Biochemistry, pp 211-225. Academic Press, New York
41. Calvin M (1992) Following the trail of light: A scientific odyssey. In: Seeman JE (ed) Profiles, Pathways and Dreams, p 178. American Chemistry Society, Washington, DC
42. Calvin M and Benson AA (1948). The path of carbon in photosynthesis. Science 107: 476-480
43. Calvin M and Massini P (1952) The path of carbon in photosynthesis. XX. The steady state. Experientia VIII: 445-457
44. Calvin M, Bassham JA and Benson AA (1950) Chemical transformations in photosynthesis. Fed Proc 9: 524-534
45. Chan PH, Sakano K and Wildman S (1972). Crystalline fraction 1 protein. Preparation in large yield. Science 176: 1145-1146.
46. Dent CE, Stepka W and Steward FC (1947). Detection of the free amino-acids of plant cells by partition chromatography. Nature 160: 682-683
47. Dorner RW, Kahn A and Wildman S (1957) The proteins of green leaves. VII. Synthesis and decay of the cytoplasmic proteins during the life of a tobacco leaf. J Biol Chem 229: 945-952
48. Emerson R (1929) On the behavior of nickel carbonate in relation to photosynthesis. J Gen Physiol 13: 163-168
49. 2. In: Franck J and Loomis WE (eds) Photosynthesis in Plants, pp 423-436. Iowa State College Press, Ames, Iowa
50. Fager EW and Rosenberg JL (1950) Phosphoglyceric acid in photosynthesis. Science 112: 617-618
51. Fager EW, Rosenberg JL and Gaffron H (1950) Intermediates in photosynthesis. Fed Proc 9: 535-542
52. Franck J and Loomis WE (eds) (1949) Photosynthesis in Plants. Iowa State College Press, Ames, Iowa
53. Fuller RC (1998) Photosynthetic carbon metabolism in the green and purple bacteria. In: Clayton RK and Sistrom WR (eds) The Photosynthetic Bacteria, pp 691-705. Plenum Press, New York
54. Fuller RC (1999) Forty years of microbial photosynthesis research: Where it came from and what it led to. Photosynth Res 62: 1-29
55. Govindjee (1999) On the requirement of minimum number of four versus eight quanta of light for the evolution of one molecule of oxygen in photosynthesis: A historical note. Photosynth Res 59: 249-254
56. Hartt CE (1943) The synthesis of sucrose in the sugar cane plant III. The effects of specific inhibitors upon the interconversion of glucose and fructose and formation of sucrose in detached blades of the sugar cane plant. Hawaian Plant Rec 47: 223-255
57. Hartt CE (1944) The synthesis of sucrose in the sugar cane plant. IV. Concerning the mechanism of sucrose synthesis in the sugar cane plant. Hawaian Plant Rec 48: 31-42
58. Horecker BL, Hurwitz J and Weissbach A (1954). Pentose phosphate and carbon dioxide fixation with spinach extracts. J Am Chem Soc 76: 3611-3612
59. Johnston HS (2002) A Bridge Not Attacked. World Scientific Publishing, Singapore/Imperial College Press, London (in press)
60. Kamen MD (1985) Radiant Science, Dark Politics. A Memoir of the Nuclear Age. University of California Press, Berkeley, California
61. La Forge FB and and Hudson CS (1917) Sedoheptose, a new sugar from Sedum spectabile. J Biol Chem 30: 61-77
62. Lorimer GH, Andrews TJ, Pierce J and Schloss JV (1986) 2′-carboxy-3-keto-D-arabinitol 1,5-bisphosphate, the six-carbon intermediate of the ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase reaction. Phil Trans R Soc London Ser B 313: 397-407
63. Maruo B and Akazawa T (1997) Ruben and Kamen. Chem Biol (KASEAA) 35: 808-814 [in Japanese]
64. Mayaudon J (1957) Study of association between the main nucleoprotein of green leaves and carboxydismutase. Enzymologia 18: 345-354
65. 2 fixation by Tetragonia expansa leaves extract. Biochim Biophys Acta 23: 342-351
66. Nonomura AM and Benson AA (1992) The path of carbon in photosynthesis. XXIV. Improved crop yields with methanol. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 89: 9794-9798
67. Quayle JR, Fuller RC, Benson AA and Calvin M (1954) Enzymatic carboxylation of ribulose diphosphate. J Am Chem Soc 76: 3610-3612
68. Ruben S (1943) Photosynthesis and phosphorylation. J Am Chem Soc 65: 279-282
69. Ruben S and Benson AA (1945) The physiological action of phosgene. Report prepared on October 22, 1943 by TH Norris and CN Rice, 10 pp. In: Committee of Gas Casualties, 'Fasiculus on Chemical Warfare Medicine,' National Research Council Committee on Treatment of Gas Casualties. Vol 2: Respiratory Tract, p 327 and p 641. Washington, DC
70. Ruben S and Kamen MD (1940) Photosynthesis with radioactive carbon. IV. Molecular weight of the intermediate products and a tentative theory of photosynthesis. J Am Chem Soc 62: 3451-3455
71. 14. Phys Rev 59: 349-354
72. Ruben S, Kamen MD, Hassid WZ and DeVault DC (1939) Photosynthesis with radio-carbon. Science, 90: 570-571
73. 2 by succulent leaves: The first products. Plant Physiol 31: 464-468
74. Smyrniotis PZ and Horecker BL (1956). Preparation of sedoheptulose diphosphate. J Biol Chem 218: 745-752
75. Stoppani AOL, Fuller RC and Calvin M (1955) Carbon dioxide fixation by Rhodopsuedomonas capsulatus. J Bacteriol 69: 491-495
76. Takamiya A (1990) Hiroshi Tamiya, Life and Work. In: Hase E, Iwamura T and Miyachi S (eds) Daishowa Publ Co, Tokyo
77. Tamiya H and Huzisige H (1949) Effect of oxygen on the dark reaction of photosynthesis. Acta Phytochim 15: 83-104
78. Tolbert NE (1997) The C2 oxidative photosynthetic carbon cycle. Annu Rev Plant Physiol 48: 1-25
79. van Niel CB, Ruben S, Carson SF, Kamen MD and Foster JW (1942) Radioactive carbon as an indicator of carbon dioxide utilization. VIII. The role of carbon dioxide in cellular metabolism. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 28: 8-15
80. Wildman SG (1998) Discovery of Rubisco. In: Kung S-D and Yang S-F (eds) Discoveries in Plant Biology, Chapter 12, pp 163-173. World Scientific Publishing, Singapore
81. Willstätter R and Stoll A (1913) Untersuchungen über Chlorophyll, Methoden und Ergebnisse. Julius Springer-Verlag, Berlin
82. Willstätter R and Stoll A (1918) Untersuchungen über die Assimilation der Kohlensäure. Julius Springer-Verlag, Berlin
83. 2 dependent transients. J Am Chem Soc 77: 5948-5957
84. Witkop B (1992) Remembering Heinrich Wieland (1877-1957). Portrait of an organic chemist and founder of modern biochemistry. Med Res Rev 12: 195-274
85. Yoshikawa H and Kauffman J (1994) Science has no Borders. Harry C. Kelly and the Reconstruction of Science and Technology in Postwar Japan. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts/Mita Press, Tokyo