Structural and spectroscopic consequences of hexacoordination of a bacteriochlorophyll cofactor in the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction center

Biochemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1882-1892

  Frolov, Dmitrij ^a   Marsh, May ^b,d   Crouch, Lucy I ^b   Fyfe, Paul K ^b,e   Robert, Bruno ^c   Van Grondelle, Rienk ^a   Hadfield, Andrea ^b   Jones, Michael R ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c CEA SACLAY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBANCE BANDS; ABSORBANCE SPECTRUM; ANTENNA PROTEINS; AXIAL LIGAND; BACTERIAL REACTION; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; COFACTORS; DOUBLE MUTANTS; ELECTRON TRANSFER; EXCITED ELECTRONIC STATE; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; HEXACOORDINATION; IN-PLANE GEOMETRY; LIGAND DONORS; LIGHT EXCITATION; MACROCYCLES; PENTACOORDINATED; PHOTOSYNTHETIC PROTEINS; PICOSECONDS; REACTION CENTER; RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTRA; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SIDE CHAINS; STEADY STATE SPECTROSCOPY; TIME-SCALES; WATER MOLECULE;

CHLOROPHYLL; ELECTRONIC STATES; LIGANDS; PORPHYRINS; PROTEINS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; MACROCYCLIC COMPOUND; MAGNESIUM; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN FL181R; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GEOMETRY; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPECTROSCOPY; STEADY STATE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL A; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; LIGANDS; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTATION; PHENYLALANINE; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 77749289943     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi901922t     Document Type: Article

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