Kinetic and Energetic Model for the Primary Processes in Photosystem II
- 1 September 1988
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Biophysical Journal
- Vol. 54 (3), 397-405
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0006-3495(88)82973-4
Abstract
A detailed model for the kinetics and energetics of the exciton trapping, charge separation, charge recombination, and charge stabilization processes in photosystem (PS) II is presented. The rate constants describing these processes in open and closed reaction centers (RC) are calculated on the basis of picosecond data (Schatz, G. H., H. Brock, and A. R. Holzwarth. 1987. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 84:8414-8418) obtained for oxygen-evolving PS II particles from Synechococcus sp. with approximately 80 chlorophylls/P(680). The analysis gives the following results. (a) The PS II reaction center donor chlorophyll P(680) constitutes a shallow trap, and charge separation is overall trap limited. (b) The rate constant of charge separation drops by a factor of approximately 6 when going from open (Q-oxidized) to closed (Q-reduced) reaction centers. Thus the redox state of Q controls the yield of radical pair formation and the exciton lifetime in the Chl antenna. (c) The intrinsic rate constant of charge separation in open PS II reaction centers is calculated to be approximately 2.7 ps(-1). (d) In particles with open RC the charge separation step is exergonic with a decrease in standard free energy of approximately 38 meV. (e) In particles with closed RC the radical pair formation is endergonic by approximately 12 meV. We conclude on the basis of these results that the long-lived (nanoseconds) fluorescence generally observed with closed PS II reaction centers is prompt fluorescence and that the amount of primary radical pair formation is decreased significantly upon closing of the RC.Keywords
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