ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Photoinhibition: Nature of the process and Influence on primary productivity Across Scales
Photosynthetic microbes contribute over 50% of carbon fixation on Earth. Inhabiting extremely diverse environments, they always have to cope with a friend that is simultaneously their enemy: sunlight. Photon energy is necessary for photosynthesis, but it continuously damages the photosynthetic apparatus, primarily the first enzyme in oxygenic photosynthesis – Photosystem II (PSII) – in the process of photoinhibition. Upon photodamage, PSII becomes irreversibly inactivated, unable to do electron transfer, and requires costly repair involving protein translation. Photoinhibition represents a major limiting factor to terrestrial and aquatic photosynthesis. Despite decades of research on PSII…
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