Distance between a native cofactor and a spin label in the reaction centre of Rhodobacter sphaeroides by a two-frequency pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance method and molecular dynamics simulations

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 178-185

  Borovykh, Igor V ^a,b   Ceola, Stefano ^b   Gajula, Prasad ^a   Gast, Peter ^b   Steinhoff, Heinz Jürgen ^a   Huber, Martina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Distance determination; Double electron electron resonance; Molecular dynamics simulations; Reaction centre Rhodobacter sphaeroides; Spin label EPR

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEGATIVE IONS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS;

DISTANCE DETERMINATION; DOUBLE-ELECTRON-ELECTRON RESONANCE (DEER); MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; REACTION CENTER RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SPIN-LABEL EPR;

PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ANION; FREE RADICAL; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SPIN LABELING;

ANIONS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FREE RADICALS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SPIN LABELS; ZINC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 33646379349     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2006.02.008     Document Type: Article

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