Low-temperature pulsed EPR study at 34 GHz of the triplet states of the primary electron donor P865 and the carotenoid in native and mutant bacterial reaction centers of Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 51, 2007, Pages 14782-14794

  Marchanka, Aliaksandr ^a   Paddock, Mark ^b   Lubitz, Wolfgang ^a   Van Gastel, Maurice ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ENERGY CONVERSION   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID PIGMENTS; ELECTRON DONOR; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

BACTERIA; ELECTRONS; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHOTOSYNTHETIC MEMBRANES; REACTION KINETICS;

MUTAGENESIS;

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; BACTERIOPHYTIN; CAROTENOID; CHLOROPHYLL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LOW TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAROTENOIDS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRONS; MUTATION; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 37349051388     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi701593r     Document Type: Article

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