Cooperation of charges in photosynthetic O2 evolution. II - Damping of flash yield oscillation, deactivation.

A quantitative analysis is made of a linear four-step model for photosynthetic molecular oxygen evolution in which each photochemical trapping center or an associated enzyme cycles through five oxidation states. Based on data obtained with isolated chloroplasts, a number of aspects were considered, including the two perturbations which damp the oscillation of the oxygen flash yield in a flash sequence. The kinetics and the mechanism of deactivation was another aspect investigated.