“…Under heterotrophic culture conditions when CO2 is replaced by acetate, 02 evolution is abolished and only PSI activity is necessary for acetate metabolism (26,27). In the photoheterophic cells, the membrane structure of the chloroplasts is almost grana free (28) and the amount of LHCPb2 is diminished (7,8 2 Abbreviations: LHCPb, light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b protein complex related to PSII; LHCPa, light-harvesting chlorophyll a protein complex related to PSI; DCPIP, 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol; CPI, chlorophyll a protein complex associated with PSI; MV, methylviologen; P700, reaction center chlorophyll of PSI; PA, photoauthe loss of LHCPb, which supplies both PSII and PSI with energy in autotrophically grown C. stellata cells, is greatly overcompensated for by the synthesis of the Chl a protein complex of PSI, CPI, and by de novo formation of LHCPa (7). These changes in the composition of choroplast membranes during transition from autotrophic to photoheterotrophic cultivation should be reflected in the functional characteristics of the photosynthetic apparatus.…”