A comparative flash-photolysis study of electron transfer from pea and spinach plastocyanins to spinach Photosystem 1. A reaction involving a rate-limiting conformational change

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 11-21

  Sigfridsson, Kalle ^a   He, Shiping ^b,c   Modi, Sandeep ^b,d   Bendall, Derek S ^b   Gray, John ^b   Hansson, Örjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blue copper protein; Gated electron transfer; Photosynthesis; Site directed mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030475531     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00018217     Document Type: Article

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