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Towards a critical understanding of the photosystem II repair mechanism and its regulation during stress conditions

Year: 2013

Type: review

Abstract: Photosystem II (PSII) is vulnerable to high light (HL) illumination resulting in photoinhibition. In addition to photoprotection mechanisms, plants have developed an efficient PSII repair mechanism to save themselves from irreversible damage to PSII under abiotic stresses including HL illumination. The phosphorylation/dephosphorylation cycle along with subsequent degradation of photodamaged D1 protein to be replaced by the insertion of a newly synthesized copy of D1 into the PSII complex, is the core function of the PSII repair cycle. The exact mechanism of this process is still under discussion. We describe the recent progress in identifying the kinases, phosphatases and proteases, and in understanding their involvement in the maintenance of thylakoid structure and the quality control of proteins by PSII repair cycle during photoinhibition.

Source: FEBS Letters

DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2013.09.015

Authors: Krishna Nath, Anjana Jajoo, Roshan Sharma Poudyal, Rupak Timilsina, Yu Shin Park, Eva-Mari Aro, Hong Gil Nam, C.-H. Lee

Institutions: Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Pusan National University, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, University of Turku

Language: English

Topic: Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms

Subfield: Molecular Biology

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Research Foundation, National Research Foundation of Korea

OpenAlex ID: W2094949585

FWCI: 1.506

Cites: 130

Cited by: 174

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