[PDF][PDF] A dimeric chlorophyll electron acceptor differentiates type I from type II photosynthetic reaction centers

M Gorka, P Charles, V Kalendra, A Baldansuren… - Iscience, 2021 - cell.com
… The incorporation of highly coupled donors and acceptors in PS I allows for extensive …
reaction centers to the development of a new generation of highly efficient artificial photosynthetic

Cryogenic single-molecule spectroscopy of the primary electron acceptor in the photosynthetic reaction center

T Kondo, R Mutoh, H Tabe, G Kurisu… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
… The photosynthetic reaction center (RC) converts light energy … The chlorophyll serves as the
primary electron acceptor (Chl a-… The photosynthetic reaction center (RC) is a multifunctional …

[HTML][HTML] Rational design of photosynthetic reaction center protein maquettes

NM Ennist, SE Stayrook, PL Dutton… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… Spectroscopic assays demonstrate that the RC maquette binds various electron donors,
pigments, and electron acceptors with high affinity. We close with a critique of the present RC …

The Mechanisms of electrogenic reactions in bacterial photosynthetic reaction centers: studies in collaboration with Alexander Konstantinov

OP Kaminskaya, AY Semenov - Biochemistry (Moscow), 2021 - Springer
… increased in the presence of efficient electron donors and acceptors capable of reducing
or oxidizing … of the collodion membrane, were efficient acceptors of electrons from Q A – [4]. …

Ultrafast structural changes within a photosynthetic reaction centre

R Dods, P Båth, D Morozov, VA Gagnér, D Arnlund… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
photosynthetic reaction centre that are photo-oxidized by light. Electron transfer to the
menaquinone acceptor … of the electron acceptor and its surroundings if an electron is to tunnel …

[HTML][HTML] De novo protein design of photochemical reaction centers

NM Ennist, Z Zhao, SE Stayrook, BM Discher… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
photosynthetic reaction centers offers a means to test our understanding of biological electron
transport and to re-engineer photosynthesis … One chain provides an electron acceptor for …

Acquirement of water-splitting ability and alteration of the charge-separation mechanism in photosynthetic reaction centers

H Tamura, K Saito, H Ishikita - Proceedings of the National …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
… –hole Coulomb interaction, charge separation necessitates a sufficient potential offset
between electron donor and acceptor cofactors. In PbRC, the energy levels of the charge-…

Chlorophylls as primary electron acceptors in reaction centers: a blueprint for highly efficient charge separation in bio-inspired artificial photosynthetic systems

M Gorka, P Landry, E Gruszecki, A Malnati, D Kaur… - Photosynthesis, 2023 - Elsevier
… necessarily associated with any specific crystallographic label, and throughout this chapter
we will use A 0 to refer to the electron acceptor in the first metastable charge-separated state. …

Mechanism of the formation of proton transfer pathways in photosynthetic reaction centers

Y Sugo, K Saito, H Ishikita - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
… The crystal structures of photosynthetic reaction centers from purple bacteria (PbRCs) and
… However, the proposed mechanisms of proton transfer toward the terminal electron acceptor

Mimicking Functions of Native Enzymes or Photosynthetic Reaction Centers by Nucleoapzymes and Photonucleoapzymes

M Vázquez-González, Z Zhou, Y Biniuri, B Willner… - Biochemistry, 2020 - ACS Publications
… a library of supramolecular photosensitizer/electron acceptor photonucleoapzymes mimicking
the functions of photosystem I in the photosynthetic apparatus. The photonucleoapzymes …