Biohistory Journal, Spring, 2006

Research: Index > The meaning of the existence of predators in the natural world

Research point [The intelligence of plants as understood from the proteins involving in photosynthesis / Genji Kurisu] Are they similar or different? Photosynthesis and the aerobic respiration

In the first page of research, on the front, we press the point for enjoying research, and on the back, we carefully observe the content of that research. The final section is a clever makeshift contrivance by plants as seen from the form of the proteins.

Photosynthesis and oxygen absorption are completely reversed when comparing the substances that are the materials with the products. A more detailed look, however, shows that as in the above, a very similar reaction is cleverly employed. There are nearly identical proteins functioning here. Of these, the cytochrome b6f complex, which operates in the light reaction during photosynthesis, and the cytochrome bc1 complex, which is active in the electron transfer system during absorption, have the common in which electrons are transferred between quinones (the cofactor in the membrane) and plastocyanin (the solvable electron transfer protein). Organisms are exceptionally good at putting things to use for other objectives.

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