The identification of the Photosystem II reaction center: A personal story

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 76, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 233-240

  Satoh, Kimiyuki ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

D1 protein; D1 D2 Cyt b559 complex; D2 protein; K. Satoh; O. Nanba; Photosystem II; Reaction center

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043198677     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024933610778     Document Type: Short Survey

References (56)

1. Albertsson P-Å (2003) The contribution of photosynthetic pigments to the development of biochemical separation methods: 1900-1980. Photosynth Res 76: 217-225 (this issue)
2. Allen J (2002) Plastoquinone redox control of chloroplast protein phosphorylation and distribution of excitation energy between photosystems: discovery, background, implications. Photosynth Res 73: 139-148
3. Alt J, Morris J, Westhoff P and Herrmann RG (1984) Nucleotide sequence of the clustered genes for the 44 kd chlorophyll a apoprotein and the '32 kd'-like protein of the Photosystem II reaction center in the spinach plastid chromosome. Curr Gen 8: 597-606
4. Anderson JM (2002) Changing concepts about the distribution of photosystems I and II between grana appressed and stroma-exposed thylakoid membranes. Photosynth Res 73: 157-164
5. Boardman NK and Anderson JM (1964) Isolation from spinach chloroplasts of particles containing different proportions of chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b and their possible role in the light reactions of photosynthesis. Nature 293: 166-167
6. Bogorad L (2003) Photosynthesis research: advances through molecular biology - the beginnings, 1975-1980s and on.... Photosynth Res 76: 13-33 (this issue)
7. Butler WL and Strasser RJ (1977) Tripartite model for the photochemical apparatus of green plant photosynthesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 74: 3382-3385
8. Camm EL and Green BR (1983) Relationship between the two minor chlorophyll a-protein complexes and the Photosystem II reaction centre. Biochim Biophys Acta 724: 291-293
9. Chua N-H and Bennoun P (1975) Thylakoid membrane polypeptides of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: wild-type and mutant strains deficient in Photosystem II reaction center. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 72: 2175-2179
10. Danielius RV, Satoh K, van Kan PJM, Plijter JJ, Nuijs AM and van Gorkom HJ (1987) The primary reaction of Photosystem II in the D1-D2-cytochrome b-559 complex. FEBS Lett 213: 241-244
11. Deisenhofer J, Epp O, Miki K, Huber R and Michel H (1985) Structure of the protein subunits in the photosynthetic reaction centre of Rhodopsudomonas viridis at 3Å resolution. Nature 318: 618-624
12. de Vitry C, Wollman F-A and Delepelaire P (1984) Function of the polypeptides of the Photosystem II reaction center in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: localization of the primary reactants. Biochim Biophys Acta 767: 415-422
13. Ellis RJ (1977) Protein synthesis by isolated chloroplasts. Biochim Biophys Acta 463: 185-215
14. Evans MCW (1987) Plant reaction centre defined. Nature 327: 284-285
15. Govindjee (1988) The discovery of chlorophyll-protein complex by Emil L. Smith during 1937-1941. Photosynth Res 16: 285-289
16. Govindjee (1995) Sixty-three years since Kautsky: chlorophyll a fluorescence. Aust J Plant Physiol 22: 131-160
17. Govindjee, Barber J, Cramer WA, Goedheer JHC, Lavorel J, Marcelle R and Zilinskas B (eds) (1987) Excitation Energy and Electron Transfer in Photosynthesis. Dedicated to Warren Butler. Martinus Nijhoff/Dr W. Junk Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
18. Ser(UGA). Nucleic Acids Res 12: 8819-8834
19. Huzisige H, Usiyama H, Kikuchi T and Azi T (1969) Purification and properties of the photoactive particle corresponding to Photosystem II. Plant Cell Physiol 10: 441-455
20. Ikeuchi M (1992) Subunits of Photosystem II. Bot Mag Tokyo 105: 327-373
21. Klimov VV (2003) Discovery of pheophytin function in the photosynthetic energy conversion as the primary electron acceptor of Photosystem II. Photosynth Res 76: 247-253 (this issue)
22. Klimov VV, Klevanik AV, Shuvalov VA and Krasnovsky AA (1977) Reduction of pheophytin in the primary light reaction of Photosystem II. FEBS Lett 82: 183-186
23. Laemmli UK (1970) Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head of bacteriophage T4. Nature 227: 680-685
24. Michel H and Deisenhofer J (1985) X-Ray diffraction studies on a crystalline bacterial photosynthetic reaction center: a progress report and conclusions on the structure of Photosystem II reaction centers. In: Staehelin LA and Arntzen CJ (eds) Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology; New Series Photosynthesis, Vol III, pp 371-381. Springer-Verlag, Berlin
25. 680chlorophyll a apoprotein of the Photosystem II reaction center from spinach. Nucleic Acids Res 12: 2837-2850
26. Nakatani HY, Ke B, Dolan E and Arntzen CJ (1984) Identity of the Photosystem II reaction center polypeptide. Biochim Biophys Acta 765: 347-352
27. Nanba O and Satoh K (1987) Isolation of a Photosystem II reaction center consisting of D-1 and D-2 polypeptides and cytochrome b-559. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 84: 109-112
28. Nixon PJ, Dyer TA, Barber J and Hunter CN (1986) Immunological evidence for the presence of the D1 and D2 proteins in PS II cores of higher plants. FEBS Lett 209: 83-86
29. Ogawa T (2003) Physical separation of chlorophyll-protein complexes. Photosynth Res 76: 227-232 (this issue)
30. Ogawa T, Obata F and Shibata K (1966) Two pigment proteins in spinach chloroplasts. Biochim Biophys Acta 112: 223-234
31. Okamura MY, Satoh K, Issacson RA and Feher G (1987) Evidence of the primary charge separation in the D1/D2 complex of Photosystem II from spinach: EPR of the triplet state. In: Biggins J (ed) Progress in Photosynthesis Research, Vol I, pp 379-381. Martinus Nijhoff, Boston
32. Pfister K, Steinback KE, Gardner G and Arntzen CJ (1981) Photoaffinity labeling of an herbicide receptor protein in chloroplast membranes. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 78: 981-985
33. Rochaix J-D (2002) The three genomes of Chlamydomonas. Photosynth Res 73: 285-293
34. Rochaix J-D, Dron M, Rahire M and Malnoe P (1984) Sequence homology between the 32K dalton and the D2 chloroplast membrane polypeptides of Chlamydomonas reinhardii. Plant Mol Biol 3: 363-370
35. Satoh K (1979) Polypeptide composition of the purified Photosystem II pigment-protein complex from spinach. Biochim Biophys Acta 546: 84-92
36. Satoh K (1982) Fractionation of thylakoid-bound chlorophyll-protein complexes by isoelectric focusing. In: Edelman M, Hallick RB and Chua N-H (eds) Methods in Chloroplast Molecular Biology, pp 845-856. Elsevier Biomedical Press, Amsterdam
37. Satoh K (1983) Photosystem II reaction center complex purified from higher plants. In: Inoue Y, Crofts AR, Govindjee, Murata N, Renger G and Satoh K (eds) The Oxygen Evolving System of Photosynthesis, pp 27-38. Academic Press, Tokyo
38. Satoh K (1985) Protein-pigments and Photosystem II reaction center. Photochem Photobiol 42: 845-853
39. Satoh K (1988) Reality of P-680 chlorophyll protein-identification of the site of primary photochemistry in oxygenic photosynthesis. Physiol Plant 72: 209-212
40. Satoh K and Butler WL (1978) Low temperature spectral properties of subchloroplast fractions purified from spinach. Plant Physiol 61: 373-379
41. Satoh K and Nanba O (1987) Isolation of a Photosystem II reaction center consisting of γ and δ subunits (D-1 and D-2) and cytochrome b-559, In: Biggins J (ed) Progress in Photosynthesis Research, Vol II, pp 69-72. Martinus Nijhoff, Boston
42. Satoh K, Nakatani HY, Steinback KE, Watson J and Arntzen CJ (1983) Polypeptide composition of a Photosystem II core complex: presence of a herbicide-binding protein. Biochim Biophys Acta 724: 142-150
43. Satoh K, Fujii Y, Aoshima T and Tado T (1987) Immunological identification of the polypeptide bands in the SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of Photosystem II preparations. FEBS Lett 216: 7-10
44. Seibert M and Wusielewski MR (2003) The isolated Photosystem II reaction center: first attempts to directly measure the kinetics of primary charge separation. Photosynth Res 76: 263-268 (this issue)
45. Smith EL (1938) Solution of chlorophyll-protein compounds (phyllochlorins) extracted from spinach. Science 88: 170-171
46. Takahashi Y, Takahashi M and Satoh K (1986) Identification of the site of iodide photooxidation in the Photosystem II reaction center complex. FEBS Lett 208: 347-351
47. Takahashi Y, Hansson O, Mathis P and Satoh K (1987) Primary radical pair in the Photosystem II reaction center. Biochim Biophys Acta 893: 49-59
48. Tang X-S and Satoh K (1984) The oxygen-evolving Photosystem II core complex. FEBS Lett 179: 60-99
49. Thomas JB, Blaauw OH and Duysens LNM (1953) On the relation between size and photochemical activity of fragments of spinach grana. Biochim Biophys Acta 10: 230-240
50. Thornber JP and Highkin HR (1974) Composition of the photosynthetic apparatus of normal barley leaves and a mutant lacking chlorophyll b. Eur J Biochem 41: 109-116
51. Trebst A (1986) The topology of the plastoquinone and herbicide binding peptides of Photosystem II in the thylakoid membrane. Z Naturforsch 41c: 240-245
52. Vernon LP, Shaw ER, Ogawa T and Raveed D (1971) Structure of Photosystem I and Photosystem II of plant chloroplasts. Photochem Photobiol 14: 343-357
53. Wessels JSC, Van Alphen-Van Waveren O and Voorn G (1973) Isolation and properties of particles containing the reactioncenter complex of Photosystem II from spinach chloroplasts. Biochim Biophys Acta 292: 741-752
54. Yamada Y, Itoh S and Satoh K (1985) A versatile chromatographic procedure for purifying PS II reaction center complex from digitonin extracts of spinach thylakoids. Plant Cell Physiol 26: 1263-1271
55. Yamagishi A and Katoh S (1985) Further characterization of the Photosystem II reaction center complex preparations from the thermophilic cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. Biochim Biophys Acta 807: 74-80
56. r 38,950. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 79: 7699-7703