Xantophyll-Zyklus in Chlamydomonas reinhardii
During the xanthophyll cycle, which occurs upon illumination in thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts, violaxanthin is transformed via antheraxanthin into zeaxanthin.Not all of the violaxanthin, which seems to be present in a loosely and a more tightly bound form in pigment-protein complexes, participates in the cycle.Here we study the xanthophyll cy