Linear Dichroism of Chloroplasts and Subchloroplast Fractions Oriented by Flow
Journal article, 1977

Chloroplasts as well as subchloroplast vesicles show linear dichroism (LD) when subjected to a hydrodynamic gradient. LD is positive for the ππ in-plane polarized bands indicating that the chlorophyll porphyrin ring is in average oriented parallel1 to the elongated membrane surfaces. The vesicle fraction enriched inphotosystem I1 shows lower LD/A at 660 nm indicating lower average orientation of chlorophyll and the fraction enriched in photosystem I shows higher LD/A at 700 nm indicating that P700 is more oriented than the bulk chlorophyll.

Author

F. Tjerneld

H. E. Akerlund

Bengt Andersson

P. A. Albertsson

Spectroscopy Letters

0038-7010 (ISSN) 1532-2289 (eISSN)

Vol. 10 6 489-493

Subject Categories

Physical Chemistry

DOI

10.1080/00387017708065504

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10/10/2017