Photosynthesis : part - The Light Reactions Amusical Lecture Glenn Wolkenfeld A music Lecture by Wolkenfeld Boys and girls tell me what think of this, Time for lesson ‘bout photosynthesis Cells use light to combine carbon dioxide. Gonna see electrons going for a wild Making making sweet O¬2. But why photosynthesis matter to you? Food on your O2 rich atmosphere. Without photosynthesis you simple wouldn’d be ( I, The Big Picture) Photosynthesis is a reaction. by light using enzymatic action. oxidized, CO2’s re duced The sugar that results you drink in orange The overall reaction has two First is the light reactions has as its basis. Light powered production ATP. O2 is the by – product and you see. of electron carrier NADPH Which reducing power needed in the second phase ‘Cause during phase 2 Provides needed for reducing CO2 NADPH ia made by a of NADP+, whose function Is to absorb electrons and pick up Gaining energy and making Phase 2 is the Calvin makes carbohydrate, Like sugar starches and fibers on your lunch plate. It’s plants make food animals eat. Photosynthesis, so sweet! (Part II: Chloroplasts, Thylakoids, and Chlorophyll) In a lesf there’s tissue And cells with key to the issue. Chloroplasts are like cells in every way, With their own ribosomes and own DNA. They even reproduce themselves, splitting half. clue for this organelle’s independent past. This has a name endosymbiosis, Developed in the 60s by Margulis. Inside the chloroplast is fluid stroma. It’s true Tokyo. It’s true in syrrounds little thylakoids. Each one has a hollow inside. The thylakoid’s membrane is loaded protein. it’s the light reactions’ scene. It’s all about using light for powering All about grabbing the in photons. The photons needed are are those from Which has the energy to the world bright. The frequency that we can see, Is violet light wavelength 380. 380 nanometers, small, But next gamma rays it’s rather tall. light shines at 750. the visible spectrum nifty? are packets of light energy, Both a wave a particle, you see. Phootins get by pigments. It’s it’s true, it ain’t no figment! Most important green chlorophylls. Orange carotenoids, and xanthophylls. Together they light, mostly red and blue. The green is not absorbed it reflects to you. chlorophyll see the porphyrin ring. See the magnesium, which makes you to sing, Magnesium, with valence two. You’ll see electrons rocketing through. the tail, a hydrocarbon chain. Which anchors chlorophyll into thylakoid membrane. A molecule with style, pretty, In the thylakoid it makes ( Part III) showed us the action spectrum. Used a prism to the sun’s Light into frequencies. it on spirogyra, filamentous algae. The O2 make will stimulate bacteria. Which will in any oxygen – rich area. Bacteria loved over blue and red, hardly grew over green, they might as well be dead! The line growth is a refection, of photosynthesis’ action spectrum. Note this won’t exactly, The absorption of chlorophyll a or b. the cartenoids and xanthophylls we’ve met, Absorb light frequencies the chlorophylls get. And in the they all cooperate, In using light to carbohydrate. Consider chlorophyll isolation, Shine some light upon (call it photoexcitation) The valence electrons magnessium Jump an excited state, it’s so fun! But once up at level, they can only fall. Back to where started, like a bouncing ball. falling alectrons, release energy, Fluorescing as red light, you can see. But in chlorophyll’s not alone, Instesd a photosystem is chlorophyll’s The photosystem’s can take photons, And use their energy to move The system’s antenna complex does the capture, Changing photon anergy electron rapture. The energized electrons like a ball, At the reaction center, they jump but not fall. primary electron acceotor grabs them from on top, And yanks them with a force reaction cannot stop. To this oxidized reaction we’ll return, But details of electron flow it now is time to learn. ( Part IV) ATP Synthesis in Non Cyclic Electron Flow. Non - cycle is the main pathway. Much confustion relates the way Hootoystm II precedes photosystem It’s a fct to memorize, just get done! PS II’s captures a photon, a flow of electrons. All around world, even n Haiti, They flow reaction center P680. There electrons do hover, Electron acceptor them over. the electron transport chain, In the thylakoid This chain’s like a bucket Each molecule has similar trade. They energized electrons, And use their energy for protons. From stroma to thylakoid space. protons into that place. This makes a gradient across the thylkoid protons want “out” or they’ll go insane. But protons can’t permeate. The membrane won’t allow There’s only one port through they travel. It’s the ATP channel. The “-ase” tells you this an enzyme. Which ATP all the time. It has binding sites ADP and Pi, And channels for protons whose knetic energy. the binding sites’ conformation. ADP with Pi which for your information. Is how thylakoids make key form of energy. From respiration this feel familiar. ATP is made way in mitochondria. is the name ATP production is the Part V: NADPH Synthesis in Non – Cyclic Elecron Flow) Back to our electons by the sun. Flowing from Photosystem II System I. They get to PS I lke a up battery. The transport chain up their energy. But when light hits PS antenna Electrons boune to reaction This one’s P700, That wavelength makes go! PS T’s acceptor grabs them away, Leaving in an oxidized way. And P700 its oxidized blues accepts the alectrons from PS II. Bak to from PS I. It now gose for a ride, having its fun. But powering proton pumps its fate. It travels to NADP+ enzyme plant cells count upon. To pass some H and To NADP+ which gets It’s how NADPH get (Part VI: Oxygen Production in Non Cycli Electron Flow) The by product of these light reactions Is oxygen here’s it happens. Back PS II, it came arise, That got oxidized To lost electrons P680 liberates. from water which dissociates. Into one and protons two, The single O will meet anoher forming protons are formed in the thylakoid space. Increasing proton concentration in place. So we see a side effect of water’s Is enhancement of creation.