Light-induced linear dichroism in photoreversibly photochromic sensor pigments. - VI. Relation between the two pigments of the mycochrome system in Alternaria cichorii.

Conidiation in Alternaria cichorii Nattras is reversibly stimulated by near ultraviolet radiation (NUV, ca 313 nm) and inhibited by blue light (ca 450 nm) and seems to be a mycochrome-mediated process. After induction with plane-polarized NUV, blue light polarized perpendicularly to the NUV was more effective in counteracting the induction than was blue light polarized parallel to the NUV. From this the conclusions arc drawn that (a) both the blue-absorbing component (presumably a flavo-protein) and the PNUV of the mycochrome system are membrane-bound and that (b) the transition moment associated with blue light absorption in the presumed flavoprotein forms an angle of at least 53° with the transition moment associated with NUV absorption in PNUV. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]