Biophysical Journal 2: 369-379 (1962)
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An Investigation of Electron Spin Resonance in Wild Type Chlamydomonas reinhardi and Mutant Strains Having Impaired Photosynthesis

ABSTRACT

The electron spin resonance signals of wild type Chlamydomonas reinhardi and three mutant strains having impaired photosynthesis have been investigated. The wild type strain generates two different electron spin resonance signals. Signal I is obtained without illumination (i.e., dark signal) whereas signal II is generated preferentially only by red light. Signal I is missing from wild type cells that have been cultured in the dark, but it returns after these dark-grown cells have been illuminated. Chloroplast fragments obtained from the three mutant strains cannot photoreduce TPN. Two of the strains lack the dark signal I while the third strain has both signal I and signal II. Other studies have revealed that the two mutant strains which lack signal I give no Hill reaction but that they can photoreduce TPN if supplied with an artificial reductant. The mutant strain which has both electron spin resonance signals can carry out the Hill reaction, yet it too will not photoreduce TPN unless reductant is supplied. The electron spin resonance signals generated by the wild type and mutant strains are discussed in terms of the pathway of TPN photoreduction, and it is suggested that signal I is associated with one of the two light-dependent phases of this pathway.

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