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