Despite recent elucidation of the three-dimensional structure of major photosynthetic complexes, our understanding of light energy conversion in plant chloroplasts and microalgae under physiological conditions requires exploring the dynamics of photosynthesis. The photosynthetic apparatus is a flexible molecular machine that can acclimate to metabolic and light fluctuations in a matter of seconds and minutes. On a longer time scale, changes in environmental cues trigger acclimation responses that elicit intracellular signaling between the nucleo-cytosol and chloroplast resulting in modification of the biogenesis of the photosynthetic machinery. Here we attempt to integrate well-established knowledge on the functional flexibility of light-harvesting and electron transfer processes, which has greatly benefited from genetic approaches, with data derived from the wealth of recent transcriptomic and proteomic studies of acclimation responses in photosynthetic eukaroytes.

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光合作用的动力学。

尽管最近阐明了主要光合复合物的三维结构，但我们对生理条件下植物叶绿体和微藻中光能转化的理解仍需要探索光合作用的动力学。光合作用设备是一种灵活的分子机器，可以在几秒钟和几分钟内适应新陈代谢和光的波动。在较长的时间尺度上，环境提示的变化会触发适应性反应，从而引起核细胞质和叶绿体之间的细胞内信号传导，从而导致光合机制的生物发生发生改变。在这里，我们尝试整合关于光收集和电子转移过程的功能灵活性的公认知识，这已从遗传方法中大大受益，