Mutation of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii analogue of residue M210 of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction center slows primary electron transfer in Photosystem II

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 205-217

  Andronis, Christos ^a,b   Merry, Stephen A P ^a   Durrant, James R ^a   Klug, David R ^a   Barber, James ^a   Nixon, Peter J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloroplast transformation; D1D2 cytochrome b 559 complex; D2 polypeptide; Mutagenesis; Photochemistry; Reaction centre

Indexed keywords

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 0033499781     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1006331714914     Document Type: Article

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