Oxygen Consumption: Photorespiration and Chlororespiration
Oxygen Consumption: Photorespiration and Chlororespiration
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耗氧量:光呼吸和氯呼吸
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2003
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J. Raven
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J. Beardall;A. Quigg;J. Raven
This chapter discusses two of the processes, namely photorespiration and chlororespiration, in algae that run counter to the oxygen-yielding reactions of photosynthesis and which involve the oxidation of carbohydrate and/or the consumption of oxygen. Photorespiration is associated with the oxygenase activity of Rubisco and the mechanisms by which cells recoup carbon and energy that would otherwise be lost from the system. The degree to which algal cells will carry out photorespiration depends on the specificity of the enzyme Rubisco for the two competing substrates O2 and CO2, whether or not the cells possess an active CO2 concentrating mechanism (CCM), and a number of environmental factors such as temperature and photon flux. Photorespiration, where it occurs, is believed to fulfill, together with a CCM, a role in avoiding the inefficiencies of carbon acquisition via Rubisco and in recovering some of the carbon and energy that could potentially be lost to the cell as excreted glycolate. In some circumstances photorespiration could also act as a mechanism of energy dissipation under conditions of high light and/or low CO2 when assimilatory processes are insufficient to dissipate absorbed light energy.