Chlororespiration

Chlororespiration basics

Chlororespiration is a process in plant chloroplasts which is thought to involve a respiratory electron transport chain within the thylakoid membrane. It is thought to involve a proton pumping respiratory dehydrogenase (the Ndh complex), and Immutans, an oxidase similar to the mitochondrial alternative oxidase, which reduces the plastoquinone pool.[1] This process may function to balance ATP: reductant levels in the chloroplast at night, when cyclic electron transfer around Photosystem I cannot occur.

References

  1. ↑ Nixon, P. J. (2000). "Chlororespiration". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 355 (1402): 1541–1510. doi:10.1098/rstb.2000.0714.

See also

Chlororespiration: an adaptation to nitrogen deficiency in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. http://www.wikigenes.org/e/ref/e/11607187.html


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