Reactive oxygen species: Re-evaluation of generation, monitoring and role in stress-signaling in phototrophic organisms

Franz Josef Schmitt, Gernot Renger, Thomas Friedrich, Vladimir D. Kreslavski, Sergei K. Zharmukhamedov, Dmitry A. Los, Vladimir V. Kuznetsov, Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev

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    Abstract

    This review provides an overview about recent developments and current knowledge about monitoring, generation and the functional role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) - H2O2, HO2, HO, OH -, 1O2 and O2- - in both oxidative degradation and signal transduction in photosynthetic organisms including microscopic techniques for ROS detection and controlled generation. Reaction schemes elucidating formation, decay and signaling of ROS in cyanobacteria as well as from chloroplasts to the nuclear genome in eukaryotes during exposure of oxygen-evolving photosynthetic organisms to oxidative stress are discussed that target the rapidly growing field of regulatory effects of ROS on nuclear gene expression.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)835-848
    Number of pages14
    JournalBiochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics
    Volume1837
    Issue number6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jun 2014

    Keywords

    • Chloroplast
    • Oxidative stress
    • Photosynthesis
    • Plant cells
    • Reactive oxygen species
    • Signaling systems

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Biophysics
    • Biochemistry
    • Cell Biology

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