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Elements of Signal Transduction Involved in Thylakoid Membrane Dynamics

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Signal Transduction in Plants

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Photosynthesis, the most fundamental biochemical process for maintenance of life and the only renewable energy source of our planet, is a highly regulated, but also one of the most light- and heat-sensitive processes in plants and cyanobacteria (Berry and Björkman 1980, Weis and Berry 1988, Havaux and Tardy 1996). Light, obviously, is not only useful, but can also cause problems, and even exert harm to a plant. In their natural habitat, plants are exposed to light intensity and quality changes that can lead to an imbalance between the excitation rates of the two photosystems, and thus diminish photosynthetic efficiency. Light can also induce photoinactivation of electron transport and damage both photosystems (Prasil et al 1992, Aro et al 1993, Sonoike 1995). Comparably, high temperatures dramatically inhibit carbon dioxide fixation (Berry and Björkman 1980, Feller et al 1998), and the heat tolerance limits of leaves, which possess surprisingly little heat capacity, can depend on the thermal sensitivity of photochemical reactions in thylakoid membranes (Berry and Björkman 1980, Weis and Berry 1988, Havaux and Tardy 1996). Even short exposure to increasing temperatures in the range of 40°C can cause a progressive destacking of stacked thylakoids (Gounaris et al 1984), a lateral redistribution of the membrane protein complexes (Sundby et al 1986) that constitute this membrane (Herrmann et al 1991), an increase in the ionic permeability and fluidity of the membrane (Havaux et al 1996, Tardy and Havaux 1997), rapid dephosphorylation and degradation of the photosystem II core protein Dl (Rokka et al 2000), and a release of extrinsic proteins of the photosystem II oxygen-evolving complex (Enami et al 1994).

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  1. Botanisches Institut der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Menzinger Str. 67, D-80638, München, Germany

    Petra Weber, Anna Sokolenko & Reinhold G. Herrmann

  2. Botanisches Institut der Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Olshausenstr. 40, D-24098, Kiel, Germany

    Hrvoje Fulgosi

  3. Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706-1590, USA

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  4. Department of Biochemistry, Linköping University, S-58183, Linköping, Sweden

    Said Eshaghi & Bertil Andersson

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Weber, P. et al. (2001). Elements of Signal Transduction Involved in Thylakoid Membrane Dynamics. In: Sopory, S.K., Oelmüller, R., Maheshwari, S.C. (eds) Signal Transduction in Plants. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1365-0_24

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