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Egan JM, Dorsky D, Schiff JA. Events Surrounding the Early Development of Euglena Chloroplasts: VI. Action Spectra for the Formation of Chlorophyll, Lag Elimination in Chlorophyll Synthesis, and Appearance of TPN-dependent Triose Phosphate Dehydrogenase and Alkaline DNase Activities. Plant Physiol. 1975;56(2):318-23doi: 10.1104/pp.56.2.318.
Egan, J. M., Dorsky, D., & Schiff, J. A. (1975). Events Surrounding the Early Development of Euglena Chloroplasts: VI. Action Spectra for the Formation of Chlorophyll, Lag Elimination in Chlorophyll Synthesis, and Appearance of TPN-dependent Triose Phosphate Dehydrogenase and Alkaline DNase Activities. Plant physiology, 56(2), 318-23. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.56.2.318
Egan, J M, et al. "Events Surrounding the Early Development of Euglena Chloroplasts: VI. Action Spectra for the Formation of Chlorophyll, Lag Elimination in Chlorophyll Synthesis, and Appearance of TPN-dependent Triose Phosphate Dehydrogenase and Alkaline DNase Activities." Plant physiology vol. 56,2 (1975): 318-23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.56.2.318
Egan JM, Dorsky D, Schiff JA. Events Surrounding the Early Development of Euglena Chloroplasts: VI. Action Spectra for the Formation of Chlorophyll, Lag Elimination in Chlorophyll Synthesis, and Appearance of TPN-dependent Triose Phosphate Dehydrogenase and Alkaline DNase Activities. Plant Physiol. 1975 Aug;56(2):318-23. doi: 10.1104/pp.56.2.318. PMID: 16659294; PMCID: PMC541811.
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Plant Physiol. 1975 Aug;56(2):318-23. doi: 10.1104/pp.56.2.318.

Events Surrounding the Early Development of Euglena Chloroplasts: VI. Action Spectra for the Formation of Chlorophyll, Lag Elimination in Chlorophyll Synthesis, and Appearance of TPN-dependent Triose Phosphate Dehydrogenase and Alkaline DNase Activities.

Plant physiology

J M Egan, D Dorsky, J A Schiff

Affiliations

  1. Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02154.

PMID: 16659294 PMCID: PMC541811 DOI: 10.1104/pp.56.2.318

Abstract

Action spectra derived from dose-response curves measured for various processes associated with chloroplast development in Euglena gracilis var. bacillaris are presented. The action spectrum for chlorophyll synthesis during the first 36 hours of continuous illumination of dark-grown resting cells resembles the absorption spectrum of protochlorophyll(ide). The action spectrum for the preillumination phase of potentiation, during which preillumination followed by a dark period brings about lag elimination in chlorophyll synthesis when the cells are subsequently exposed to postilluminating light, shows a high peak in the blue region (at about 433 nm) with a small peak in the yellow-orange region (at about 597 nm); the postillumination phase yields an action spectrum very similar to that obtained for chlorophyll synthesis in continuous light in normal, unpotentiated cells, with peaks at 433 and 631 nm. Alkaline DNase and TPN-linked triose phosphate dehydrogenase, two plastid enzymes which are synthesized outside the chloroplast, yield action spectra which are consistent with protochlorophyll(ide) being the major light receptor. The action spectra which implicate pigments resembling protochlorophyll(ide) holochrome have blue to red peak ratios in the vicinity of 5:1 as does the absorption spectrum of the protochlorophyllide holochrome from beans; the action spectrum is not identical with the holochrome spectrum indicating that the Euglena holochrome may differ from the bean pigment in details of its absorption spectrum. The action spectrum for preillumination, shows a ratio of the blue peak to the red effectiveness of about 24:1. This suggests that preillumination is controlled by a photoreceptor different from the protochlorophyll(ide) holochrome.

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