PlumX Metrics
Embed PlumX Metrics

Structure, function and assembly of Photosystem II and its light-harvesting proteins.

Photosynthesis research, ISSN: 1573-5079, Vol: 82, Issue: 3, Page: 241-63
2004
  • 86
    Citations
  • 0
    Usage
  • 165
    Captures
  • 1
    Mentions
  • 0
    Social Media
Metric Options:   Counts1 Year3 Year

Metrics Details

  • Citations
    86
    • Citation Indexes
      85
    • Patent Family Citations
      1
      • Patent Families
        1
  • Captures
    165
  • Mentions
    1
    • References
      1
      • Wikipedia
        1

Article Description

Photosystem II (PSII) is a multisubunit chlorophyll-protein complex that drives electron transfer from water to plastoquinone using energy derived from light. In green plants, the native form of PSII is surrounded by the light-harvesting complex (LHCII complex) and thus it is called the PSII-LHCII supercomplex. Over the past several years, understanding of the structure, function, and assembly of PSII and LHCII complexes has increased considerably. The unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has been an excellent model organism to study PSII and LHCII complexes, because this organism grows heterotrophically and photoautotrophically and it is amenable to biochemical, genetic, molecular biological and recombinant DNA methodology. Here, the genes encoding and regulating components of the C. reinhardtii PSII-LHCII supercomplex have been thoroughly catalogued: they include 15 chloroplast and 20 nuclear structural genes as well as 13 nuclear genes coding for regulatory factors. This review discusses these molecular genetic data and presents an overview of the structure, function and assembly of PSII and LHCII complexes.

Provide Feedback

Have ideas for a new metric? Would you like to see something else here?Let us know