Does different orientation of the methoxy groups of ubiquinone-10 in the reaction centre of Rhodobacter sphaeroides cause different binding at Q A and QB?

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 270, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 3603-3609

  Remy, André ^a   Boers, Rutger B ^b   Egorova Zachernyuk, Tatiana ^b   Gast, Peter ^c   Lugtenburg, Johan ^b   Gerwert, Klaus ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Electron transfer; Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; Isotopic labelling; Photosynthetic reaction centre; Ubiquinone

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; UBIDECARENONE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING KINETICS; BINDING SITE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HYDROGEN BOND; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ISOTOPE LABELING; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIBRATION;

BINDING SITES; CARBON ISOTOPES; FERROUS COMPOUNDS; HISTIDINE; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; UBIQUINONE;

RHODOBACTER; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0042825639     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03746.x     Document Type: Article

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