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Immunocytochemical and Cytochemical Localization of Photosystems I and II ¹

United States Department of Agriculture, Southern Weed Science Laboratory, Stoneville, Mississippi 38776, Barnes Laboratory, Department of Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637

Cytochemical and immunocytochemical methods were used to localize photosystems I and II in barley (Hordeum vulgare L. cv Himalaya) chloroplasts. PSI activity, monitored by diaminobenzidine oxidation, was associated with the lumen side of the thylakoids of both grana and stroma lamellae. The P₇₀₀ chlorophyll a protein, the reaction center of PSI, was localized on thin sections of barley chloroplasts using monospecific antibodies to this protein and the peroxidase-antiperoxidase procedure. Results obtained by immunocytochemistry were similar to those of the diaminobenzidine oxidation: both grana and stroma lamellae contained immunocytochemically reactive material. Both the grana and stroma lamellae were also labeled when isolated thylakoids were reacted with the P₇₀₀ chlorophyll a protein antiserum and then processed by the peroxidase-antiperoxidase procedure. PSII activity was localized cytochemically by monitoring the photoreduction of thiocarbamyl nitroblue tetrazolium, a reaction sensitive to the PSII inhibitor, DCMU. PSII reactions occurred primarily on the grana lamellae, with weaker reactions on the stroma lamellae.

¹ This research was supported in part by National Institutes of Health Grants GMO7183 and GM23944 to R. S. A. Part of this work has been presented in abstract form (Vaughn, Vierling, Duke, Alberte 1982 Plant Physiol 69: S70). Mention of a trademark, proprietary product, or vendor does not constitute a guarantee or warranty of the product by the United States Department of Agriculture and does not imply its approval to the exclusion of other products that may also be suitable.