Pathways and timescales of primary charge separation in the photosystem II reaction center as revealed by a simultaneous fit of time-resolved fluorescence and transient absorption

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1464-1481

  Novoderezhkin, Vladimir I ^a   Andrizhiyevskaya, Elena G ^b   Dekker, Jan P ^b   Van Grondelle, Rienk ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; PHEOPHYTIN;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; LINEAR DICHROISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHONON; PHOTOSYSTEM II; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TIME RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE; VIBRATION;

EID: 24144455262     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.105.060020     Document Type: Article

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