Photosynthesis : part A - Light Reactions Amusical Lecture by Glenn music Lecture by Glenn Wolkenfeld Boys girls tell me what you think of this, Time a lesson ‘bout photosynthesis Cells use light to water carbon dioxide. Gonna see electrons for a wild ride. sugar, making sweet O¬2. why should photosynthesis matter to you? on your table. O2 rich atmosphere. Without photosynthesis simple wouldn’d be here. ( Part I, The Big Photosynthesis is a reaction. Powered by using enzymatic action. oxidized, CO2’s re duced The that results you drink in orange juice. overall reaction has two phases. First is the light reactions which as its basis. Light powered production ATP. is the by – product and you will see. Production of electron NADPH Which provides power needed in the second phase NADPH, during phase 2 Provides what’s for reducing CO2 NADPH made by a reduction of NADP+, whose function Is to electrons and pick up H, Gaining energy making NADPH. Phase 2 is the Calvin Cycle carbohydrate, Like sugar and starches and on your lunch plate. It’s how make food animals eat. it’s so sweet! (Part II: Chloroplasts, Thylakoids, and Chlorophyll) In a lesf there’s tissue And cells chloroplasts key to the issue. Chloroplasts are almost like cells every way, With their own and their own DNA. They even themselves, splitting into half. A clue for this organelle’s past. This theory has name endosymbiosis, Developed the 60s by Lynn Margulis. Inside the chloroplast the fluid stroma. true in Tokyo. It’s in Roma. Stroma syrrounds thylakoids. Each one has hollow space inside. The thylakoid’s membrane is loaded with ‘Cause it’s light reactions’ scene. It’s all about light for powering electrons, All grabbing the power in photons. The photons needed are are those from Which has the to make the world bright. The highest frequency we can see, Is violet with wavelength 380. 380 sounds small, But next gamma rays it’s rather tall. Red light at 750. Isn’t the spectrum nifty? Photons are of light energy, Both a wave and a you see. Phootins get by pigments. It’s real, it’s true, it no figment! Most important are chlorophylls. Orange carotenoids, yellow xanthophylls. they absorb light, mostly red and blue. The green is absorbed it reflects back to you. In see the porphyrin ring. the magnesium, which makes you want to sing, metal with valence two. You’ll those electrons rocketing through. Notice the tail, hydrocarbon chain. Which anchors chlorophyll into the membrane. A molecule with style, so the thylakoid it makes electricity! ( Part III) Englemann us the action spectrum. Used a to break the sun’s Light into frequencies. Shone it on spirogyra, filamentous The algae make will stimulate bacteria. Which will grow any oxygen – rich area. Bacteria loved it over blue and But grew over green, they might as well be dead! The line of growth a refection, of photosynthesis’ action spectrum. Note won’t match, exactly, absorption spectra of chlorophyll a or b. the cartenoids and xanthophylls we’ve met, Absorb light frequencies the can’t get. And the thylakoid they all cooperate, using light to synthesize carbohydrate. Consider chlorophyll isolation, Shine some light upon (call it photoexcitation) valence electrons in magnessium Jump to an excited state, it’s fun! But once up at that level, they only fall. Back to where they started, like bouncing ball. These falling alectrons, energy, Fluorescing as red as you can see. But in thylakoids, chlorophyll’s alone, Instesd a is chlorophyll’s home. The photosystem’s parts can photons, use their energy to move electrons. The system’s complex does the first capture, Changing anergy into electron rapture. The energized electrons bounce like ball, At reaction center, they jump but do not fall. A primary electron acceotor grabs them on top, And them with a force reaction center cannot stop. To this reaction center we’ll return, But the details electron flow it now is time to learn. ( Part IV) ATP Synthesis in Non Cyclic Electron Flow. - cycle flow is the main pathway. Much relates to the way II precedes photosystem I. It’s a to memorize, just get it done! PS II’s captures a photon, a flow of electrons. All the world, even n Haiti, They flow reaction center P680. There electrons do not acceptor passes them over. the electron transport chain, In thylakoid membrane. This chain’s a bucket brigade. Each molecule has similar trade. take energized electrons, And use energy for pumping protons. From to the thylakoid space. Packing protons that place. This makes gradient across the thylkoid membrane protons want “out” or they’ll go insane. But protons can’t permeate. The membrane won’t allow There’s only one port through they travel. It’s the Synthase channel. The tells you this is an enzyme. Which makes ATP the time. It binding sites for ADP and Pi, And channels for protons whose knetic energy. Changes the sites’ conformation. Fusing with Pi which for your information. Is how make ATP. Life’s key of energy. respiration this might feel familiar. ATP made this way in mitochondria. Chemiosomosis is name ATP is the game. ( Part V: NADPH in Non – Cyclic Elecron Flow) Back to our electons moved by the Flowing from Photosystem II to System They get PS I lke a used up battery. The transport chain up their energy. when light hits PS I’s antenna Electrons boune to reaction This one’s P700, wavelength makes electrons go! PS T’s electron grabs them away, P700 in an oxidized way. And P700 with its oxidized blues accepts the alectrons from II. Bak to from PS I. It now gose for a ride, having its own But powering proton pumps ain’t its It travels to reductase. enzyme plant cells count upon. To some H and electrons. To NADP+ gets reduced. It’s how get produced. (Part VI: Oxygen Production Non – Cycli Electron Flow) The by – product of light reactions Is here’s how it happens. Back PS II, it came to P680 got oxidized To replace lost electrons P680 Electrons water which dissociates. Into one oxygen protons two, The single O meet anoher forming O2. These protons are formed in the space. Increasing proton concentration in that So we see a effect of water’s oxidation. Is enhancement ATP creation.