Low-temperature interquinone electron transfer in photosynthetic reaction centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides and Blastochloris viridis: Characterization of QB- states by high-frequency electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and electron-nuclear double resonance (ENDOR)

Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 43, 2005, Pages 14131-14142

  Utschig, Lisa M ^a   Thurnauer, Marion C ^a   Tiede, David M ^a   Poluektov, Oleg G ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; CONFORMATIONS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; REACTION KINETICS;

ELECTRON TRANSFER; ELECTRON-NUCLEAR DOUBLE RESONANCE (ENDOR); QUINONE; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

PROTEINS;

DEUTERIUM; IRON; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCHLORIS VIRIDIS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ELECTRON NUCLEAR DOUBLE RESONANCE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ISOTOPE LABELING; KINETICS; LOW TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

BINDING SITES; COLD; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FREE RADICALS; HYPHOMICROBIACEAE; IRON; ISOTOPE LABELING; KINETICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; QUINONES; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; ZINC;

BLASTOCHLORIS VIRIDIS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 27444440095     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi051060q     Document Type: Article

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