The Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Center II: Structure, Spectroscopy and Dynamics

Front Matter....Pages i-x
The 3-D Structure of the Reaction Center from Rhodopseudomonas Viridis ....Pages 1-11
Correlation Between the Polarized Light Absorption and the X-Ray Structure of Single Crystals of the Reaction Center from Rhodobacter Sphaeroides R-26....Pages 13-20
Symmetrical Inter-Subunit Suppressors of the Bacterial Reaction Center cd-Helix Exchange Mutants....Pages 21-23
Mutations that Affect the Donor Midpoint Potential in Reaction Centers from Rhodobacter Sphaeroides ....Pages 25-31
Suggestions for Directed Engineering of Reaction Centers: Metal, Substituent and Charge Modifications....Pages 33-42
Potential Energy Function for Photosynthetic Reaction Centre Chromophores: Energy Minimisations of a Crystalline Bacteriopheophytin a Analog....Pages 43-48
Bacterial Reaction Centers with Plant-Type Pheophytins....Pages 49-57
Trapping of a Stable Form of Reduced Bacteriopheophytin and Bacteriochlorophyll in Ectothiorhodospira SP . Photoreaction Center....Pages 59-65
Triplet-Minus-Singlet Absorbance Difference Spectroscopy of Heliobacterium Chlorum Monitored with Absorbance-Detected Magnetic Resonance....Pages 67-77
Mid- and Near-IR Electronic Transitions of P + : New Probes of Resonance Interactions and Structural Asymmetry in Reaction Centers....Pages 79-88
 15 N Endor Experiments on the Primary Donor Cation Radical D + in Bacterial Reaction Center Single Crystals of RB. Shaeroides R-26....Pages 89-97
EPR and Endor Studies of the Primary Donor Cation Radical in Native and Genetically Modified Bacterial Reaction Centers....Pages 99-108
Molecular Orbital Study of Electronic Asymmetry in Primary Donors of Bacterial Reaction Centers....Pages 109-118
Near-Infrared-Excitation Resonance Raman Studies of Bacterial Reaction Centers....Pages 119-126
Asymmetric Structural Aspects of the Primary Donor in Several Photosynthetic Bacteria: the Near-IR Fourier Transform Raman Approach....Pages 127-132
 Rhodocyclus Gelatinosus Reaction Center: Characterization of the Quinones and Structure of the Primary Donor....Pages 133-139
FTIR Characterization of Leu M160→His, Leu L131→His and His L168→Phe Mutations Near the Primary Electron Donor in RB. Sphaeroides Reaction Centers....Pages 141-145
Light-Induced Charge Separation in Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Centers Monitored by FTIR Difference Spectroscopy: the Q A Vibrations....Pages 147-153
Time-Resolved Infrared and Static FTIR Studies of Q A → Q B Electron Transfer in Rhodopseudomonas Viridis Reaction Centers....Pages 155-162
Is Dispersive Kinetics from Structural Heterogeneity Responsible for the Nonexponential Decay of P870* in Bacterial Reaction Centers?....Pages 163-172
Effect of Charge Transfer States on the Zero Phonon Line of the Special Pair in the Bacterial Reaction Center....Pages 173-181
Theoretical Studies on the Electronical Structure of the Special Pair Dimer and the Charge Separation Process for the Reaction Center Rhodopseudomonas viridis ....Pages 183-192
Recent Experimental Results for the Initial Step of Bacterial Photosynthesis....Pages 193-207
Model Calculations on the Fluorescence Kinetics of Isolated Bacterial Reaction Centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides ....Pages 209-217
Femtosecond Spectroscopy of the Primary Electron Transfer in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers....Pages 219-225
Femtosecond Optical Characterization of the Excited State of Rhodobacter Capsulatus D LL ....Pages 227-235
Electron Transfer in Rhodopseudomonas Viridis Reaction Centers with Prereduced Bacteriopheophytin BL....Pages 237-243
Fast Internal Conversion in Bacteriochlorophyll Dimers....Pages 245-251
Primary Charge Separation in Reaction Centers: Time-Resolved Spectral Features of Electric Field Induced Reduction of Quantum Yield....Pages 253-260
Electric Field Effects on the Quantum Yields and Kinetics of Fluorescence and Transient Intermediates in Bacterial Reaction Centers....Pages 261-270
Radical Pair Dynamics in the Bacterial Photosynthetic Reaction Center....Pages 271-282
The Primary Charge Separation in Bacterial Photosynthesis. What is New?....Pages 283-290
Multi—Mode Coupling of Protein Motion to Electron Transfer in the Photosynthetic Reaction Center: Spin — Boson Theory Based on a Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulation....Pages 291-300
Pulsed Electric Field Induced Reverse Electron Transfer from Ground State Bchl 2 to the Cytochrome c Hemes in Rps. viridis ....Pages 301-312
Charges Recombination Kinetics in Bacterial Photosynthetic Reaction Centers: Conformational States in Equilibrium Pre-Exist in the Dark....Pages 313-319
Protein Relaxation Following Quinone Reduction in Rhodobacter Capsulatus : Detection of Likely Protonation-Linked Optical Absorbance Changes of the Chromophores....Pages 321-330
Study of Reaction Center Function by Analysis of the Effects of Site-Specific and Compensatory Mutations....Pages 331-339
Proton Transfer Pathways in the Reaction Center of Rhodobacter Sphaeroides : A Computational Study....Pages 341-350
Electrostatic Interactions and Flash-Induced Proton Uptake in Reaction Centers from RB. Sphaeroides ....Pages 351-361
Initial Characterization of the Proton Transfer Pathway to Q B in Rhodopseudomonas Viridis : Electron Transfer Kinetics in Herbicide-Resistant Mutants....Pages 363-374
Study of Reaction Centers From RB. Capsulatus Mutants Modified in the Q B Binding Site....Pages 375-387
Calculations of Proton Uptake in Rhodobacter Sphaeroides Reaction Centers....Pages 389-394
Chlorophyll Triplet States in the CP47-D1-D2-Cytochrome b -559 Complex of Photosystem II....Pages 395-402
Light Reflections II....Pages 403-410
Back Matter....Pages 411-420
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