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| Marc Symons, Anthony Crofts | Requires cookie* | | | Title
| Flash-Induced Electrochromic Band Shifts, is It a Simple Mechanism?  | | | | Abstract
| The flash-induced carotenoid bandshifts have been studied for various strains of both Rho-dopseudomonas sphaeroides and capsulata. A technique for calculating shifts o f isobestic points down to 0.05 nm is described. To this end, special attention has been paid to the appropriate cor rection for reaction center absorbance changes occuring concommitantly with the carotenoid bandshifts. Plots of the wavelength o f the isobestic point versus the corresponding absorption changes at the maximum o f the difference spectrum have been made, suggesting the existence o f different pools of carotenoids. The various pools of carotenoids seem to have different sizes, in ducing non-linearities in the plots. In some cases spectral differences of the pools have to be assumed. A possible interpretation o f the results would be that each electrogenic span of the electron transport chain is to be associated with its own pool of carotenoids, all the pools behaving in somewhat independant way. We discuss possible difficulties in making those measurements. | | | |
Reference
| Z. Naturforsch. 35c, 139—144 (1980); received August 16 1979 | | | |
Published
| 1980 | | | |
Keywords
| Electrochromism, Carotenoids, Electron Transport, Membrane Potential, Photosynthesis | | | |
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