Flash induced transient changes of the chlorophyll a fluorescence and Mössbauer spectroscopy were used to analyse modifications of the non-heme iron centre induced by treatment of trypsinised PSII membrane fragments with LiClO4 and o-phenanthroline based on a procedure described in with modifications as in. EPR spectroscopy reveals that the magnetic interaction of the non-heme iron with the semiquinone anion radical disappears in these preparations. Kinetic measurements of the flash induced fluorescence yield in the presence and absence of K3[Fe(CN)6] show that in these samples i) the electron transfer between the primary and secondary plastoquinone acceptors (QA and QB) is suppressed (already as a result of trypsination), and ii) the extent of a fast QA− reoxidation by preoxidised non heme-iron (Fe3+) is largely eliminated.