Calculation of protonation patterns in proteins with structural relaxation and molecular ensembles - Application to the photosynthetic reaction center

European Biophysics Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 626-637

  Rabenstein, Björn ^a   Ullmann, G Matthias ^a   Knapp, Ernst Walter ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterial photosynthesis; Conformational flexibility; Electron transfer; Poisson Boltzmann equation; Protein electrostatics

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MENAQUINONE; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; UBIQUINONE;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCHLORIS VIRIDIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ENERGY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTON TRANSPORT; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BLASTOCHLORIS VIRIDIS; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0031719963     PISSN: 01757571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002490050174     Document Type: Article

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