title: Fermentative Metabolism of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: II. Role of Plastoquinone.
abstract: Evidence is presented to substantiate a chloroplastic respiratory pathway in the green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, whereby reducing equivalents generated during the degradation of starch enter the thylakoidal chain at the plastoquinone site catalyzed by NADH-plastoquinone reductase. In this formulation, the reduced plastoquinone is oxidized either by the photoevolution (photosystem I) of H(2) under anaerobic conditions or by O(2) during dark respiration.
authors: Institute for Photobiology of Cells and Organelles, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02254.
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authors: RP
authors: Gfeller
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authors: Gibbs