Quinone (QB) reduction by B-branch electron transfer in mutant bacterial reaction centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides: Quantum efficiency and X-ray structure

Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 6920-6928

  Paddock, M L ^a   Chang, C ^a   Xu, Q ^a,b   Abresch, E C ^a   Axelrod, H L ^a,c   Feher, G ^a   Okamura, M Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHARGE TRANSFER; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

CHEMICAL ENERGY; MUTATIONS; PROTON TRANSFER; REACTION CENTERS (RC);

PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

ALANINE; HISTIDINE; LEUCINE; PHENYLALANINE; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; BACTERIOPHEOPHYTIN; BENZOQUINONE; BENZOQUINONE DERIVATIVE; PHEOPHYTIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; LASER; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOLYSIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; BENZOQUINONES; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; KINETICS; LASERS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHEOPHYTINS; PHOTOLYSIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 18244409359     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi047559m     Document Type: Article

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