Antennas and Reaction Centers of Photosynthetic Bacteria: Structure, Interactions and Dynamics

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Structure of Antenna Polypeptides....Pages 2-14
The Crystal and Molecular Structure of C-Phycocyanin....Pages 15-16
C-Phycocyanin from Mastigocladus laminosus . Isolation and Properties of Subunits and, Small Aggregates....Pages 17-25
Picosecond Time-Resolved, Polarized Fluorescence Decay of Phycobilisomes and Constituent Biliproteins Isolated from Mastigocladus larninosus ....Pages 26-35
Fluorescence Behaviour of Crystallized C-Phycocyanin (Trimer) from Mastigocladus laminosus ....Pages 36-44
Energy-Transfer Kinetics in Phycobilisomes....Pages 45-52
Exciton State and Energy Transfer in Bacterial Membranes: The Role of Pigment-Protein Cyclic Unit Structures....Pages 53-61
Carotenoid-Bacteriochlorophyll Interactions....Pages 62-66
Bacteriochlorophyll a - and c -Protein Complexes from Chlorosomes of Green Sulfur Bacteria Compared with Bacteriochlorophyll c Aggregates in CH 2 Cl 2 -Hexane....Pages 67-73
Reverse-Phase High-Performance Liquid Chromatography of Antenna Pigment- and Chlorosomal Proteins of Chloroflexus aurantiacus ....Pages 74-77
Fluorescence-Detected Magnetic Resonance of the Antenna Bacteriochlorophyll Triplet States of Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria....Pages 78-80
High-Resolution 1 H NMR of Light-Harvesting Chlorophyll-Proteins....Pages 81-81
Crystallization and Linear Dichroism Measurements of the B800-850 Antenna Pigment-Protein Complex from Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides 2.4.1....Pages 82-84
Crystallization of the B800–850-complex from Rhodopseudomonas acidophila Strain 7750....Pages 85-87
Linear Dichroism (LD) and Absorption Spectra of Crystals of B800–850 Light-Harvesting Complexes of Rhodopseudomonas capsulata ....Pages 88-91
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
The Crystal Structure of the Photosynthetic Reaction Center from Rhodopseudomonas viridis ....Pages 94-96
Single Crystals from Reaction Centers of Rhodopseudomonas viridis Studied by Polarized Light....Pages 97-102
On the Analysis of Optical Spectra of Rhodopseudomonas viridis Reaction Centers....Pages 103-108
Orientation of the Chromophores in the Reaction Center of Rhodopseudomonas viridis . Comparison of Low-Temperature Linear Dichroism Spectra with a Model Derived from X-Ray Crystallography....Pages 109-121
Calculations of Spectroscopic Properties of Bacterial Reaction Centers....Pages 122-130
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
On the Temperature-Dependence of the Long Wavelength Fluorescence and Absorption of Rhodopseudomonas viridis Reaction Centers....Pages 131-137
Local Environments of Pigments in Reaction Centers of Photosynthetic Bacteria from Resonance Raman Data....Pages 138-145
The Spin-Polarization Pattern of the Δm = 1 Triplet EPR Spectrum of Rps. viridis Reaction Centers....Pages 146-146
Triplet State Investigation of Charge Separation and Symmetry in Single Crystals of R. viridis Reaction Centers....Pages 147-149
Triplet-minus-Singlet Absorbance Difference Spectroscopy of Photosynthetic Reaction Centers by Absorbance-Detected Magnetic Resonance....Pages 150-163
ENDOR Studies of the Primary Donor in Bacterial Reaction Centers....Pages 164-173
ENDOR of Semiquinones in RCs from Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides ....Pages 174-189
Photoinduced Charge Separation in Bacterial Reaction Centers Investigated by Triplets and Radical Pairs....Pages 190-197
Spin Dipolar Interactions of Radical Pairs in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers....Pages 198-206
Protein/Lipid Interaction of Reaction Center and Antenna Proteins....Pages 207-215
The Architecture of Photosystem II in Plant Photosynthesis Which Peptide Subunits Carry the Reaction Center of PS II?....Pages 216-224
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Application of Electron-Transfer Theory to Several Systems of Biological Interest....Pages 226-233
Effects of Distance, Energy and Molecular Structure on Long-Distance Electron-Transfer Between Molecules....Pages 234-241
Ultrafast Electron Transfer in Biomimetic Models of Photosynthetic Reaction Centers....Pages 242-249
Electron Transfer Through Aromatic Spacers in Bridged Electron-Donor-Acceptor Molecules....Pages 250-255
Electron Transfer in Rigidly Linked Donor-Acceptor Systems....Pages 256-263
Electron Conduction Along Aliphatic Chains....Pages 264-276
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
Kinetics and Mechanisms of Initial Electron-Transfer Reactions in Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides Reaction Centers....Pages 278-285
Femtosecond Studies of the Reaction Center of Rhodopseudomonas viridis : The Very First Dynamics of the Electron-Transfer Processes....Pages 286-291
Analysis of Time-resolved Fluorescence of Rhodopseudomonas viridis Reaction Centers....Pages 292-297
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
The Characterization of the Q A Binding Site of the Reaction Center of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides ....Pages 298-304
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
Structure and Energetics in Reaction Centers and Semi-synthetic Chlorophyll Protein Complexes....Pages 306-313
Small Oligomers of Bacteriochlorophylls as in vitro Models for the Primary Electron Donors and Light-Harvesting Pigments in Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria....Pages 314-323
Experimental, Structural and Theoretical Models of Bacteriochlorophylls a, d and g....Pages 324-338
ENDOR Characterization of Hydrogen-Bonding to Immobilized Quinone Anion Radicals....Pages 339-344
Concluding Remarks Some Aspects of Energy Transfer in Antennas and Electron Transfer in Reaction Centers of Photosynthetic Bacteria....Pages 345-365
Back Matter....Pages 367-367