Proton uptake of Rhodobacter capsulatus reaction center mutants modified in the primary quinone environment

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 126-133

  Tandori, Julia ^a,c   Miksovska, Jaroslava ^a   Valerio Lepiniec, Marielle ^a   Schiffer, Marianne ^b   Maróti, Peter ^c   Hanson, Deborah K ^b   Sebban, Pierre ^a  

^a CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,4 BENZOQUINONE; ALANINE; ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; DIMER; GLUTAMIC ACID; PROTON;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PH; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTON TRANSPORT; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS CAPSULATA; STOICHIOMETRY; TITRIMETRY; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BENZOQUINONES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTATION; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PROTONS; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS;

RHODOBACTER; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0012374883     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2002)075<0126:PUORCR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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