Coupling of electron transfer to proton uptake at the QB site of the bacterial reaction center: A perspective from FTIR difference spectroscopy

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics

Volumn 1777, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1229-1248

  Nabedryk, Eliane ^a   Breton, Jacques ^a  

^a CEA   (France)

Author keywords

Carboxylic acid; FTIR; Protonation event; Quinone; Reaction center; Site directed mutant

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; QUINONE DERIVATIVE;

BINDING SITE; CHANNEL GATING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HYDROGEN BOND; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PH; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STEADY STATE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BINDING SITES; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PROTONS; QUINONES; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; WATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 52949129815     PISSN: 00052728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2008.06.012     Document Type: Review

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