The primary photosynthetic energy conversion in bacterial reaction centers—stepwise electron transfer and the effect of elevated exposure levels

Springer Proceedings in Physics

Volumn 162, Issue , 2015, Pages 580-583

  Dominguez, Pablo Nahuel ^a   Himmelstoss, Matthias ^a   Michelmann, Jeff ^a   Lehner, Florian ^a   Gardiner, A ^b   Cogdell, R ^b   Zinth, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOSYNTHESIS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

BACTERIAL REACTION; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; ELECTRON TRANSFER; EXCITATION RATE; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER; PRIMARY REACTION; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS;

EID: 84961289320     PISSN: 09308989     EISSN: 18674941     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-13242-6_142     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

1. W. Zinth and J. Wachtveitl, The First Picoseconds in Bacterial Photosynthesis-Ultrafast Electron Transfer for the Efficient Conversion of Light Energy, Chem. Phys. Chem. 6, 871–880 (2005).
2. W. Holzapfel, U. Finkele, W. Kaiser, D. Oesterhelt, H. Scheer, H. U. Stilz and W. Zinth, Initial electron-transfer in the reaction center from Rhodobacter sphaeroides, PNAS 87, 5168-5172 (1990).
3. B. P. Fingerhut, W. Zinth and R. de Vivie-Riedle, Design criteria for optimal photosynthetic energy conversion, Chem. Phys. Lett. 466, 209-213 (2008).
4. Y. Kakitani, A. Hou, Y. Miyasako, Y. Koyama and H. Nagae, Rates of the initial two steps of electron transfer in reaction centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides as determined by singularvalue decomposition followed by global fitting, Chem. Phys. Lett. 492, 142-149 (2010).
5. J. Zhu, I. H. M. van Stokkum, L. Paparelli, M. R. Jones and M. L. Groot, Early Bacteriopheophytin Reduction in Charge Separation in Reaction Centers of Rhodobacter sphaeroides, Biophysical Journal 104, 2493–2502 (2013).
6. P. N. Dominguez, M. Himmelstoss, J. Michelmann, F. T. Lehner, A. T. Gardiner, R. J. Cogdell and W. Zinth, Primary reactions in photosynthetic reaction centers of Rhodobacter sphaeroides–Time constants of the initial electron transfer, Chem. Phys. Lett. 601, 103–109 (2014).
7. P. Hamm, K. A. Gray, D. Oesterhelt, R. Feick, H. Scheer and W. Zinth, Subpicosecond emission studies of bacterial reaction centers, BBA 1142, 99-105 (1993).
8. Y. Koyama, Y. Kakitani and H. Nagae, Mechanisms of Cis-Trans Isomerization around theCarbon–Carbon Double Bonds via the Triplet State, in cis-trans Isomerization in Biochemistry (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2006), pp. 15-51.