Determination of the Functioning Site of Chlorophyll a' in the Photosynthetic Reaction Center I

本研究的目的是对研究人员在各种产氧光合生物的光系统I的反应中心P700附近检测到的叶绿素a'（Chla'）的实际数量和体内功能部位得出结论。在建立了能在较短时间内测定大部分叶绿素、类胡萝卜素/叶黄素和奎宁的HPLC条件后，我们分析了高等植物、嗜热蓝藻、普通蓝藻和绿色蓝藻的色素组成，得出化学计量比Chla ' /P 700 = 1的结论。连同Jordan等人在2001年报道的关于嗜热蓝细菌的系统I反应中心的X射线晶体学结果，最后得出结论，Chla '是P700本身的一个重要组成部分，与正常Chla分子形成异二聚体.此外，首次阐明了一个绿色硫细菌和一个海洋原核生物的反应中心分子组装体.

The present research has been conducted to draw a conclusion as to the actual number and the in vito functioning site of chloro-phyll a' (Chl a') which the researchers had detected in the vicinity of the reaction center P700 of photosystem I for a variety of oxygenic photo-synthetic organisms. After establishing HPLC conditions by which most of the chlorophylls, carotenoids/ xanthophylls and quinines can be determined in a relatively short time, we analyzed the pigment compositions of higher plants, a thermophilic cyanobacterium, regular cyanbacteria and green alga, the stoichiometry Chl a' /P700 = 1 was concluded.This, together with an X-ray crystallographic result on the system I reaction center of the thermophilic cyanobacterium, reported in 2001 by Jordan et al., finally has led to a conclusion that Chl a' is an essential component of P700 itself, forming a heterodimer with the normal Chl a molecule.In addition to these, the reaction center molecular assemblies of a green sulfur bacterium and of a marine prokaryote have been elucidated for the first time.