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Spectroscopic Investigation of the Inhibitory Effect of Fatty Acids on Photosynthetic Systems

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Fatty acids have a reversible inhibitory effect on respiration and on photo-synthetic action. Investigation of the influence of octanoic acid on the photo-synthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas spheroides R-26 indicates that a less efficient energy transfer and decoupling of the light-gathering pigment system from the energy converting reaction centre is responsible for the inhibitory effect.

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STEFFEN, H., CALVIN, M. Spectroscopic Investigation of the Inhibitory Effect of Fatty Acids on Photosynthetic Systems. Nature New Biology 234, 165–168 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio234165a0

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