Photosynthesis is the natural process that converts solar photons into energy-rich products
that are needed to drive the biochemistry of life. Two ultrafast processes form the basis of …

▪ Abstract Recent progress in two-dimensional and three-dimensional electron and X-ray
crystallography of Photosystem II (PSII) core complexes has led to major advances in the …

Excitons are considered as the basic concept used by describing the spectral properties of
photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes and excitation dynamics in photosynthetic light …

The mechanism and kinetics of electron transfer in isolated D1/D2-cytb559 photosystem
(PS) II reaction centers (RCs) and in intact PSII cores have been studied by femtosecond …

The 4 Å structural model of photosystem I (PSI) has elucidated essential features of this
protein complex. Inter alia, it demonstrates that the core proteins of PSI, PsaA and PsaB …

We consider a model of the photosystem II (PS II) reaction center in which its spectral
properties result from weak (approximately 100 cm-1) excitonic interactions between the …

Cytochrome b559 (cyt b559) is closely associated with photosystem II (PSII) in all oxygenic
photosynthetic organisms. As PSII is biochemically resolved into complexes of decreasing …

In this Minireview, we discuss a number of issues on the primary photosynthetic reactions of
the green plant Photosystem II. We discuss the origin of the 683 and 679 nm absorption …

Based on the structural analysis of photosystem II of Thermosynechococcus elongatus, a
detailed calculation of optical properties of reaction-center (D1–D2) complexes is presented …

Charge separation is an essential step in the conversion of solar energy into chemical
energy in photosynthesis. To investigate this process, we performed transient absorption …