LABORATORY EXPLORATION The Light-dependent Reactions of Photosynthesis

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1 LABORATORY EXPLORATION The Light-dependent Reactions of Photosynthesis Plants are autotrophs, self-feeding organisms that capture light energy (photons) and store it as chemical energy (carbohydrates). During the light reactions of photosynthesis, the light energy of photons is converted briefly to electrical energy (the flow of electrons through chlorophylls in the photosystems), and then into chemical energy (in the bonds of ATP and NADPH). During the Calvin Cycle (sometimes known as the light-independent reactions, since it can proceed either in dark or light), the chemical energy briefly stored as ATP and NADPH is transferred for long-term storage into the bonds of sugar. I. Photosystems The light-dependent reactions take place on the membranes of the thylakoids, located inside the chloroplasts. Chlorophyll and carotenoid pigments are embedded in the thylakoid membranes to form photosystems, designed to maximize the capture of photons. A photosystem consists of a few hundred molecules of chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, and carotenoid pigments. As these pigments absorb photons, their electrons are boosted to a higher energy level. In this excited state, electrons pass from one pigment molecule to another until they reach a specific chlorophyll a molecule positioned beside a Primary Electron Acceptor protein. At this Reaction Center, chlorophyll a passes the excited electron to the Primary Electron Acceptor, starting an electron transport chain that will result in the production of ATP (from ADP) and NADPH (from NADP + ). The energy that was once a photon is now stored as chemical energy in the bonds of ATP and NADPH. Note that the oxidation-reduction reaction that takes place between chlorophyll a and the Primary Electron Acceptor cannot occur unless the two molecules are in their proper positions in the thylakoid membrane. When you observed fluorescence in your isolated chlorophyll in the last lab, you were observing the re-release of light energy that would have been captured by the Primary Electron Acceptor if the chlorophyll was still normally embedded in a living thylakoid membrane. Two different photosystems--photosystem I and Photosystem II--are found on thylakoid membranes. The main difference between these two systems (named in order of their discovery) is the absorbance maximum of their respective chlorophyll a molecules. In Photosystem I, chlorophyll a (also known as P 700 ) has a maximum absorbance at 700nm, and in Photosystem II, a chlorophyll a (also known as P 680 ) associated with slightly different proteins absorbs maximally at 680nm. As perceived by the human eye and brain, what "color" are these two wavelengths?. II. Non-cyclic Photophosphorylation In both photosystems, light drives the synthesis of ATP and NADPH by triggering a flow of electrons through the photosystem pigments and associated proteins. Two possible routes for electron flow--cyclic and non-cyclic--are known. Of these, plants use primarily the non-cyclic route, and it is this pathway we will study today. Review the figure in your text illustrating non-cyclic electron flow, and be sure you understand the process before you continue. 9-1

2 A. Overview of Non-cyclic Photophosphorylation in a Live Plant Cell The essential steps in the light reactions are... water molecules are split, producing electrons, protons, and oxygen gas (O 2 ). electrons from the water molecules are passed along the electron transport system on the thylakoid membranes as electrons are passed along the chain of proteins, energy is lost at each transfer, and this is packaged in the high-energy phosphate bonds of ATP. some of the protons from the split water molecules reacts with another energy courier molecule, NADP (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate) to form NADP-H, which stores the energy of the proton. both ATP and NADP-H shuttle the energy of captured photons, now stored as chemical energy, to the stroma (the thick gel matrix of the chloroplasts) where it will be transduced yet again and stored in the covalent bonds of sugars. Heart of the Light Reactions: The Photosystems A photosystem is a light-gathering complex composed of a proteinaceous reaction center complex surrounded by several light-harvesting complexes. These are embedded in the thylakoid membranes inside the chloroplast. Each light-harvesting complex consists of various pigment molecules (chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, carotenoids) bound to proteins in the thylakoid membrane. The systems are spread out over the surface of the thylakoid, providing a large surface area for light harvesting as well as a variety of pigments with different absorbance spectra. Antenna pigments, such as carotenoids and chlorophyll b, pass their excited electrons to one another until the e - reaches the reaction center complex. The reaction center complex contains a pair of chlorophyll a molecules associated with a large protein, the primary electron acceptor. As the chlorophyll a molecules accept excited electrons from other pigments in the photosystem, they pass them along to the primary electron acceptor (a redox reaction). The primary electron acceptor passes the excited electron to a small "shuttle" protein that carries it to a cytochrome complex of proteins that form an electron transport chain. And you know what happens when an excited electron passes along such a chain: at each transfer, energy is lost. But in a live photosystem, it isn't puffed off into space. There are small, energy-courier molecules just waiting to package that energy: ADP and NADP. These are converted to energy-storing ATP and NADP-H, respectively. The ATP and NADP-H travel to the stroma, where their energy will be packaged in the covalent bonds of sugar. There are two types of photosystems (named in order of their discovery, not in order of their function) in the thylakoid membranes: Photosystem II (PS II) - o reaction center contains chlorophyll a molecules (P 680 ) that have peak absorbance (λ max ) of 680nm. 9-2

3 Photosystem I (PS I) - o reaction center contains chlorophyll a molecules (P 700 ) that have λ max of 700nm. The chlorophyll a molecules of the two photosystems are nearly identical, but each is associated with different proteins in their respective reaction centers. Here's how it works... A photon is absorbed by a chlorophyll or carotenoid molecule in the thylakoid membrane. As it falls back to its ground state, its energy is transferred to the electron of an adjacent pigment, raising it to an excited state. This continues until the excited electron belongs to the famous P 680 chlorophyll of PS II. The excited P 680 electron is transferred to a primary electron acceptor protein. The oxidized P 680 is now P 680. Nearby, an enzyme splits water to yield two electrons - these replace those lost by the two P 680 molecules in the reaction center one oxygen atom - this combines with another oxygen atom from a different split water molecule to form oxygen gas (O 2 ) two protons (hydrogen ions) - some will combine with NADP (to form NADP-H) to store energy to be shuttled to the stroma for the light-independent reactions. The excited electrons from PS II travel to PS I via an electron transport chain (similar components as those found in the mitochondrial electron transport chain) consisting of a cytochrome complex known as plastoqinone (Pq) and another protein, plastocyanin (Pc). As electrons "fall" exergonically from one component of the electron-transport chain to the next, our old pal the Second Law of Thermodynamics rears its head: energy is released at each transfer, but quickly captured and packaged in the high-energy phosphate bonds of ATP. (Electrons passign through teh cyctochrome comlex results in the pumping of protons out of the membrane, and the resulting potential difference is used in chemiosmosis. Meanwhile, back at PSI, chlorophylls and carotenoids are behaving in a similar manner, doing the wave, and transferring photon energy (not converted to electrical energy--the flow of electrons) to the pair of P 700 chlorophylls at the reaction center. P 700 transfers its excited electron to its own primary electron acceptor, and becomes P (redox again!). The electron reaching the "bottom" of the electron transport chain in PSII is shuttled to PSI, where it replaces the lost electron of P 700 +, restoring it to its original P 700 configuration. PSI excited electrons travel along a different electron transport chain via the protein ferredoxin ((Fd). There is no proton pump at the PSI electron transport chain, so no ATP is produced there. A special enzyme, NADP + reductase, catalyzes the transfer of two electrons from Fd to one NADP +, reducing it to energy-storing NADP-H. An overview of the entire noncyclic photophosphorylation process can be found in Figure 2 (reproduced here from your textbook for your convenience). 9-3

4 Figure 1. Non-cyclic photophosphorylation. (c) 2008 Pearson Education B. The Hill Reaction As described above, the first event in photosynthesis is the light-activated transfer of an electron from one molecule to another against an electro-chemical potential. This reduction results in the conversion of light energy into chemical energy. 2H 2 O + 2NADP > O 2 + 2NADPH + 2H + In 1939, Dr. Robin Hill discovered that isolated, illuminated chloroplasts will produce oxygen when in the presence of a suitable electron acceptor. Hill used iron salts in the place of NADP, generating the following chemical reduction: 2H Fe > O 2 + 4H + + 4Fe ++ Hill's experiment was a landmark in the elucidation of photosynthetic processes, as it was the first to demonstrate that (1) Oxygen evolution during photosynthesis occurs without carbon dioxide reduction. (2) Oxygen evolved during photosynthesis comes from water, not carbon dioxide (as previously believed), since no CO 2 was used in Hill's experiment. (In the 1940's, another experiment using water labeled with heavy oxygen ( 18 O) confirmed this result.) (3) Isolated (and in Hill's reaction, fragmented) chloroplasts could perform a significant partial reaction of photosynthesis. In our last laboratory, you disrupted the thylakoid membranes of spinach plants to extract chlorophyll and carotenoid pigments and study their physical properties. This 9-4

5 week, you will extract living chloroplasts from spinach cells without disrupting their membranes or their thylakoids, and perform a variation of Hill's reaction. Your isolated "photosynthesis factories" may be experimentally manipulated to study the effects of environmental variables on this first stage of photosynthesis, the photolysis of water. You will use an artificial electron acceptor--a blue dye known as indophenol--to mimic the NADP found in a live cell. (In Hill's reaction, what is the chemical equivalent of indophenol? ). As shown below, when indophenol (the R in the chemical formula indicates a variable functional group) accepts electrons and is reduced, it changes from blue to colorless. This property of our artificial electron acceptor makes it a simple matter to monitor the rate of the light reactions via colorimetry. You will use a spectrophotometer (Figure 9-1) to monitor the rate at which your indophenol changes from blue to colorless as it is reduced, mimicking the role of NADP in a live plant cell. You will follow a procedure that will enable you to extract living chloroplasts from plant cells, alloquating your sample into a series of small colorimetry tubes (test tubes made from optical quality glass, also known as cuvettes) which you should separate into equal numbers of treatment and control tubes. These must be kept on ice to prevent degeneration of the chloroplasts, but this should not interfere with your manipulating your choice of environmental variable that you suspect might have an effect on the light reactions. III. The Light Reactions: Identifying Problems Work in groups of four. Before you begin your chloroplast extraction and manipulation, you must decide what scientific problem you hope to address. Consider what you know about chlorophyll absorption spectra, the activity of proteins and enzymes in different environmental conditions. Consider which wavelengths of light drive photosynthesis. Your laboratory instructor will tell you what supplies are available in the lab for your experiments. Consider one of your observations about photosynthesis, ask questions, formulate hypotheses. By now, you should be familiar with the scientific process and be able to formulate interesting, relevant hypotheses about some aspect of the light reactions. Restrict your question to the environmental variable of LIGHT: presence vs. absence; source, illumination period, intensity, or wavelength. Your hypotheses should be informed by your knowledge of photosynthesis. We recommend that you compare no more than 2 variables, since more than that will complicate any statistical analysis you might do. Have your TA approve your design and give helpful suggestions. 9-5

6 A. Experimental Design What is your question/problem? List as many hypotheses as possible that might explain the above. If you plan to use statistical methods (e.g., comparing rates of fermentation of two different sugars), then what are your null and alternative hypotheses for the particular experimental protocol you will be using? H o : H a : rationale for H a : 1. List the materials your group will use 2. Briefly describe your experimental set-up and procedure. (Remember: you need not give a detailed explanation of equipment here, unless it is unique to your experiment and really requires an explanation for the educated reader to understand what you will be doing. Simply refer to the lab manual as a literature cited for equipment specifics.) 3. Do you think it is sufficient to run only one experimental run with each variable? Or should you run multiple trials? Explain your answer: 9-6

7 4. How many times will you replicate your experiment for each variable? If you plan to run multiple trials at each value of your variable a wise choice then you will need to calculate the mean rate of reaction of the runs. (For example, if you ran your experiment three times with a particular variable, then you must calculate the mean reaction rate for each variable from your three runs with that variable. Create an appropriate table to record your raw data. You should be able to do this on your own by now. B. Parameters and Data Analysis What type of data are you collecting? Is it attribute, discrete numerical, or continuous numerical data, as described in Appendix What parameter will you measure? 2. How will you analyze your data? C. Predictions and Interpretations In the spaces below, list all possible outcomes of your experimental trials. (As before, we have given you more spaces than you might need for this.) Each outcome should be accompanied by an explanation of how it supports or refutes each hypothesis and its companion predictions. Remember that the result is not the same as the interpretation. The outcome is the summary of the results themselves, whereas the interpretation is the logical, reasoned explanation for the observed results. The explanation of your outcome can serve as the basis for the next level of posing hypotheses, so be prepared to go to that next level. Outcome 1: Explanation: Outcome 2: 9-7

8 Explanation: Outcome 3: Explanation: Outcome 4: Explanation: IV. Laboratory Techniques for Chloroplast Extraction To obtain a usable isolate of live chloroplasts, follow these directions carefully. A. Preparation of Chloroplast suspension THIS EXPERIMENT WILL WORK ONLY IF YOUR EXTRACTED CHLOROPLASTS ARE KEPT COLD AND ARE PREPARED QUICKLY. READ AHEAD, AND BE SURE TO ICE DOWN OR REFRIGERATE ALL GLASSWARE YOU WILL USE. KEEP YOUR CHLOROPLASTS ON ICE (AND AWAY FROM HOT HANDS) AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. 1. In a blender, macerate about 25g of spinach leaves in 100ml of ice cold 0.35M NaCl for about 30 seconds (or until obvious leaf fragments have disappeared, giving way to a delicious-looking spinach smoothie). 2. Filter the homogenate through two layers of cheesecloth into a cooled 250ml beaker. You will get plenty of extract by pouring your suspension through the cheesecloth; don t squeeze for more. (Don't waste cheesecloth! A section about 6" square should be more than sufficient for your needs.) 3. Divide the extract between two chilled centrifuge tubes. Fill each tube to 1cm from the top no more. You will probably not need the rest of the extract, but save the excess extract in case of any errors that might require you to do a procedure over again. (This is simply good lab procedure: never throw anything away until you are absolutely sure you don t need it any more. Always label well to reduce the chance of human error. ) 4. Insert each tube into a metal centrifuge sleeve. Balance the tubes with their metal sleeves carefully, and then insert them on opposite sides of the centrifuge rotor. 4a. To balance your tubes, use the double-pan balance available on the back table: 9-8

9 a. Place each plastic centrifuge tube into a stainless steel centrifuge sleeve. b. Make sure there is a 250ml beacker on each balance pan, and that the balance is zeroed. To zero the balance, use the sliding weight on the balance to effectively make the two beakers weigh the same. When the balance is zeroed, the pointer on the small scale in the middle of the balance will rest exactly in the center of the scale. You are now ready to add your samples and balance them. c. place one sleeved centrifuge tube in each beaker. d. If the two tubes do not weigh the same, use the water droppers at the balance at the station to carefully add water BETWEEN THE PLASTIC CENTRIFUGE TUBE AND THE STAINLESS STEEL SLEEVE. DO NOT add water to your chloroplast suspension. Add it only to the space between the tube and sleeve. e. Once your two tubes are balanced, insert them into the centrifuge exactly opposite each other in the centrifuge. (Don't run the centrifuge with only two tubes. Wait for another team to load additional tubes, and always try to run a full load. This will save time for everyone.) 5. Set the centrifuge at 1/2 speed (dial setting 6), and spin your filtrate for two minutes. Time the spin with a watch or clock, as the centrifuge timers may be less accurate. 6. Pour the supernatant (liquid) from both the tubes into a chilled 250ml beaker. Discard the precipitate (solid pellet at the bottom of the tube) in the trashcan (NOT THE SINKS!). Rinse your centrifuge tube well with distilled water. (Distilled water is available at the brushed aluminum tap at the back of the lab. It s the tap you must manually hold in the on position to keep the water flowing.) 7. Pour the supernatant from the beaker back into your rinsed centrifuge tubes. Rebalance the tubes, and centrifuge at full speed for 8 minutes. This time, discard the supernatant and SAVE THE PRECIPITATE/PELLET. The pellet is composed of isolated chloroplasts. 8. To each of your centrifuge tubes, add 0.4mL of ice-cold NaCl solution. Mix the contents with a clean, glass stirring rod to re-suspend the pellet. Then gently draw the pellet into a Pasteur pipet and expel against the wall of the tube. Repeat 5 times, or until the chloroplass are very evenbly suspended (i.e., no clumps are visible). 9. Combine the chloroplast suspension from your tubes into a chilled 30mL beaker. Keep on ice. 10. Place 1mL of this chloroplast suspension into a new chilled 30mL beaker. Make a 1/10 dilution by adding 9mL of chilled 0.35M NaCL. Keep on ice. 11. Obtain the number of colorimetry tubes your team has decided to use. Label each tube carefully, placing tape labels near the top of the tube, where they will not obstruct the spectrophotometer s light path. Chill the tubes. 12. In a chilled 50 or 100mL beaker, make sufficient phosphate buffer for your experiment. To maek 20mL of 0.05M sodium phosphate buffer (ph 6.9), mix 9mL of 0.05M sodium phosphate monobasic (acid) with 11mL of 0.05M sodium phosphate dibasic (base). Check the ph and adjust (titrate) as necessary. Make 10mL of buffer for each tube you plan to use. Multiply the recipe proportionally if you have more than two tubes. Do not make more buffer than you need! 9-9

10 13. Into your tubes, aliquot (to aliquot is to divide a total amount of a solution or suspension into multiple portions of the same size) 8.0mL of ph 6.9 phosphate buffer solution and 0.2ml of the 1/10 dilution of the chloroplast suspension. Show the first tube to your TA before preparing the others. 14. Make a mini ice water bath for each treatment by filling 100mL beakers 2/3 with ice and water. Place each colorimetry tube into its own mini ice water bath. 15. Your samples are now ready for the experiment you designed in Part II. Set up your treatments so that you can keep the tubes in their mini ice-water baths during the experiment, and remove them only to take spectrophotometer readings. B. Measuring Rate of Reaction via Colorimetry 1. Spectrophotometer (Figure 2) instructions are available at each machine. Read them carefully before you begin. 2. Be sure the spectrophotometer is set at 610nm, as transmission of this wavelength (red) will increase as indophenol blue fades to colorless. (Why does this make sense? Why do we not use blue or green light?) 3. When you are ready to begin taking readings, bring your iced sample tubes and bottle of indophenol to the spectrophotometer. Add 0.15ml of the indophenol dye solution to each test tube in turn, mix very well, and immediately take a colorimetry reading. This will be your "zero" data point. (IMPORTANT: Be sure to mix the contents of the tubes thoroughly, and wipe dry before each reading. Mixing procedure should be standardized.) 4. After taking readings, immediately put the tubes back in their treatment conditions (and mini ice water baths). 5. Measure the color change in your tubes at set intervals (two minutes works well). Record your data in the grid provided. Label the grid appropriately. 6. For your presentation, make two graphs using Excel or similar software: a. a raw data graph showing rate curves for each treatment. Obtain the rate of reaction for each treatment as the slope of the best-fit line for the linear portion of the rate curve only. b. a results graph comparing the rates of reaction for all treatments. 9-10

11 Grid for data collection:

12 Figure 2. The Spectronic 20D+ spectrophotometer. 1-sample compartment. 2-digital readout. 3-mode indicators. 4-mode selector button. 5-decrease. 6- increase. 7-print. 8-wavelength control. 9-transmittance/absorbance control (100%T/OA). 10-power switch/zero control. 11-filter lever. V. Presenting Your Data You should now be able to analyze your data and present your findings in such a way that further hypotheses about the mechanism of the light reactions can readily be proposed. Remember to present this next step of your research in next week s symposium, and to propose further experiments that would allow you to address the multiple, competing hypotheses that might be supported by any given outcome of those experiments. 9-12

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