… Conversion of light energy to chemical potential takes place in membrane-spanning reaction
center (RC) proteins of photosynthetic bacteria, algae, and plants. Two transmembrane …

… geometric and electronic structures of an array of RCs. In this chapter, we review the electronic
and geometric structures of the (B)Chl and (B)Pheo primary electron acceptors from five …

… electron donor in this step is the nearest haem of the four-haem cytochrome that is bound
tightly to the reaction centre; … A possible explanation is that reaction centre preparations contain …

… In bacterial photosynthesis, purple bacteria employ two types of light harvesting antennae,
ie, the core light-harvesting complex (LH1) encircling a photoelectrochemical reaction center (…

… type II RC of purple photosynthetic bacteria have a heterodimeric structure composed of two
different subunits, (1−3) while only the type I RC of heliobacteria, green sulfur bacteria, and …

… purple bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum. It was found that reduction of the secondary quinone
electron acceptor Q … proteins and reaction centers in photosynthetic bacteria using direct …

… energy to 6 a reaction centre (RC) complex … electron passes along a series of redox- 8 active
carriers until it reaches a quinone or an iron-sulphur centre that acts as an electron acceptor …

… In the absence of a soluble electron acceptor, the electron on F A and F B will recombine
with P 700 + through a process of thermal repopulation. The quasi-equilibrium model (…

… a ferredoxin electron acceptor [23] rather than as the bound F A and F B terminal electron
acceptors of … of the energy and electron transfer steps catalyzed by this photosynthetic system. …

… Preparation of RC Reaction Centers were purified from the purple … ), supplemented with
FcMeOH 300 µM as electron donor and dQ 100 µM as electron acceptor together with the PDA@…