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1: Photosynth Res. 2007 Jul-Sep;93(1-3):69-77. Epub 2007 Feb 6.Click here to read Links

Cyanobacterial NADPH dehydrogenase complexes.

National Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 300 Fenglin Road, Shanghai 200032, China. ogawater@xd6.so-net.ne.jp

Cyanobacteria possess functionally distinct multiple NADPH dehydrogenase (NDH-1) complexes that are essential to CO(2) uptake, photosystem-1 cyclic electron transport and respiration. The unique nature of cyanobacterial NDH-1 complexes is the presence of subunits involved in CO(2) uptake. Other than CO(2) uptake, chloroplastic NDH-1 complex has a similar role as cyanobacterial NDH-1 complexes in photosystem-1 cyclic electron transport and respiration (chlororespiration). In this mini-review we focus on the structure and function of cyanobacterial NDH-1 complexes and their phylogeny. The function of chloroplastic NDH-1 complex and characteristics of plants defective in NDH-1 are also described for comparison.

PMID: 17279442 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]