Linear dichroism of membrane-bound reaction centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides: Alterations of the B band induced by site-specific mutations

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 55, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 181-187

  Vos, Marten H ^a   Rischel, Christian ^a,d   Breton, Jacques ^b   Martin, Jean Louis ^a   Ridge, Justin P ^c   Jones, Michael R ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d 35 HC Andersens Boulevard   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bacteriochlorophyll; Optical spectroscopy; Site directed mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 0031878022     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1005951717594     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (21)

1. Beekman LMP, van Stokkum IHM, Monshouwer R, Rijnders AJ, McGlynn P, Visschers RW, Jones MR and van Grondelle R (1996) Primary electron transfer in membrane-bound reaction centers with mutations at the M210 position. J Phys Chem 100: 7256-7268
2. Breton J (1985) Orientation of chromophores in the reaction center of Rhodopseudomonas viridis. Comparison of low-temperature linear dichroism spectra with a model derived from X-ray crystallography. Biochim Biophys Acta 810: 235-245
3. Breton J (1988) Low temperature linear dichroism study of the ori entation of the pigments in reduced and oxidized reaction centers of Rps. viridis and Rb. sphaeroides. In Breton J and Verméglio A (eds) The Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Center, Structure and Dynamics, pp 59-69. Plenum, New York
4. Breton J, Bylina EJ and Youvan DC (1989) Pigment organization in geneticaly modified reaction centers of Rhodobacter capsulatus. Biochemistry 26: 6423-6430
5. Breton J, Martin JL, Lambry JC, Robles SJ and Youvan DC (1990) Ground state and femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy of a mutant of Rhodobacter capsulatus which lacks the initial electron acceptor bacteriopheophytin. In: Michel-Beyerle ME (ed) Reaction Centers of Photosynthetic Bacteria, pp 293-302. Springer, Berlin
6. Deisenhofer J and Michel H (1989) The photosynthetic reacion center from the purple bacterium Rhodopseudomonas viridis. Science 245: 1463-1473
7. Ermler U, Fritzsch G, Buchanan SK and Michel H (1994) Structure of the photosynthetic reaction centre from Rhodobacter sphaeroides at 2.65 Å resolution: Cofactors and protein-cofactor interactions. Structure 2: 925-936
8. Feher G, Allen JP, Okamura MY and Rees DC (1989) Structure and function of bacterial photosynthetic reaction centers. Nature 339: 111-116
9. Hanson LK (1988) Theoretical calculations of photosynthetic pigments. Photochem Photobiol 47: 903-921
10. Jones MR, Visschers RW, van Grondelle R and Hunter CN (1992) Construction and characterization of a mutant of Rhodobacter sphaeroides with the reaction center as the sole pigment-protein complex. Biochemistry 31: 4458-4465
11. Jones MR, Heer-Dawson M, Mattioli TA, Hunter, CN and Robert B (1994) Site-specific mutagenesis of the reaction centre from Rhodobacter sphaeroides studied by Fourier-transform Raman spectroscopy: Mutations at tyrosine M210 do not affect the electronic structure of the primary donor. FEBS Lett 339: 18-24
12. Kirmaier C and Holten D (1987) Primary photochemistry of reaction centers from the photosynthetic purple bacteria. Photosynth Res 13: 225-260
13. Mattioli TA, Lin X, Allen JP and Williams JC (1995) Correlation between multiple hydrogen bonding and alteration of the oxidation potential of the bacteriochlorophyll dimer of reaction centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Biochemistry 34: 6142-6152
14. McAuley-Hecht KE, Fyfe PK, Ridge JP, Prince SM, Hunter CN, Isaacs NW, Cogdell RJ and Jones MR (1998) Structural studies of wild type and mutant reaction centres from an antenna-deficient strain of Rhodobacter sphaeroides: Monitoring the optical properties of the complex from cell to crystal. Biochemistry (in press)
15. Scherer POJ and Fischer SF (1991) Interpretation of optical reaction center spectra, in Scheer H (ed) Chlorophylls, pp 1079-1093. CRC, Boca Raton, FL
16. Vos MH, Lambry JC, Robles SJ, Youvan DG, Breton J and Martin JL (1992) Femtosecond spectral evolution of the excited state of bacterial reaction centers at 10 K. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 88: 8885-8889
17. Vos MH, Jones, MR, McGlynn P, Hunter CN, Breton J. and Martin JL (1994) Influence of the membrane environment on vibrational motions in reaction centers of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Biochim Biophys Acta 1186: 117-122
18. Vos MH, Jones MR, Breton J, Lambry JC and Martin JL (1996) Vibrational dephasing in long- and short-lived primary donor excited states in mutant reaction centers of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Biochemistry 35: 2687-2692
19. Vos MH, Breton J and Martin JL (1997) Electronic energy transfer within the hexamer cofactor system of bacterial reaction centers. J Phys Chem: 101: 9820-9832
20. Williams JC, Alden RG, Murchison HA, Peloquin JM, Woodbury NW and Allen JP (1992) Effects of mutations near the bacteriochlorophylls in reaction centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Biochemistry 31: 11029-11037
21. Woodbury NW, Peloquin JM, Alden RG, Lin X, Lin S, Taguchi AKW, Williams JC and Allen JP (1994) Relationship between thermodynamics and mechanism during photoinduced charge separation in reaction centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Biochemistry 33: 8101-8112