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Environmental and Stress Physiology

Inhibition of Water Splitting Increases the Susceptibility of Photosystem II to Photoinhibition ¹

AFRC Photosynthesis Research Group, Wolfson Laboratories, Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, London SW7 2AY, United Kingdom

Photosystem II (PSII)-enriched membrane particles were isolated from peas (Pisum sativum L.) and treated in several different ways to inhibit the water oxidation reactions, but not reaction center function itself, as judged by the light-induced rate of reduction of 2,6-dichlorophenol indophenol with and without the artificial electron donor, diphenyl carbazide. It was shown that such treatments increased the susceptibility of the PSII-enriched membranes to photoinhibition. This trend was further observed if 2,6-dichlorophenol indophenol was present during the illumination with photoinhibitory light. On the other hand, protection against the enhanced photoinhibition was found when the water-splitting activity was reconstituted or when the artificial electron donor diphenyl carbazide was present during the preillumination. The results indicate that irreversible photodamage occurred within the PSII reaction center as a consequence of illumination with strong light and that the rate of this damage was enhanced under conditions that are expected to give rise to a photoaccumulation of oxidizing species such as P680⁺ on the donor side of PSII. This mechanism of photoinhibitory damage occurred under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions.

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