Pigment—protein interactions in the photosynthetic reaction centre from Rhodopseudomonas viridis

H Michel, O Epp, J Deisenhofer - The EMBO journal, 1986 - embopress.org
… In addition to apolar interactions, the bacteriochlorophylls of the primary electron donor ('…
primary electron donor, and which mark possible electron pathways across the photosynthetic

Dispersed polaron simulations of electron transfer in photosynthetic reaction centers

A Warshel, ZT Chu, WW Parson - Science, 1989 - science.org
electron donor in the reaction center (a bacteriochlorophyll dimer), H is a bacterio… an
electron from P when the reaction center is excited, and Q is the secondary electron acceptor (…

Evolution of photochemical reaction centres: more twists?

T Cardona, AW Rutherford - Trends in plant science, 2019 - cell.com
… Evolution of photosynthetic reaction centers: insights from the structure of the heliobacterial
… domain interacting with the electron donor site of the reaction centre, as it is the case in the …

Efficient energy transfer and electron transfer in an artificial photosynthetic antenna− reaction center complex

G Kodis, PA Liddell, L De la Garza… - The Journal of …, 2002 - ACS Publications
photosynthesis naturally focused on the photoinduced electron-transfer processes, and many
reaction center … chromophores covalently linked to electron donor or acceptor moieties, or …

The birth of the photosynthetic reaction center: the story of Lou Duysens

R van Grondelle, H van Gorkom - Photosynthesis research, 2014 - Springer
… functions as a reaction center where the electronic excitation is converted into a
photochemical product. Based on the effect of oxygen and depletion of the electron donor, it was …

Excited state energy transfer pathways in photosynthetic reaction centers. 1. Structural symmetry effects

RJ Stanley, B King, SG Boxer - The Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1996 - ACS Publications
… Ultrafast excited state energy transfer to the primary electron donor or special pair in
photosynthetic reaction centers has been measured following excitation of the lowest electronic

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. …

Biomolecular electronics: vectorial arrays of photosynthetic reaction centers

I Lee, JW Lee, E Greenbaum - Physical Review Letters, 1997 - APS
… by means of molecular electronic complexes, the reaction centers, that are embedded in …
, the PSI reaction center has an oxidizing potential of about 10.4 V at the electron donor side …

A stepwise electron-transfer relay mimicking the primary charge separation in bacterial photosynthetic reaction center

A Osuka, S Marumo, N Mataga… - Journal of the …, 1996 - ACS Publications
electron acceptor is quite useful for analysis of electron transfer kinetics because of the
characteristic absorption spectrum of its anion radical 11 and a pertinent one-electron reduction …

Relevance of the photosynthetic reaction center from purple bacteria to the structure of photosystem II

H Michel, J Deisenhofer - Biochemistry, 1988 - ACS Publications
… in the reaction center of photosystem II. This reaction center is a complex consisting of …
Upon absorption of light the primary electron donor, which is a chlorophyll A molecule or a pair of …