The Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Center: Structure and Dynamics

Front Matter....Pages i-x
The Crystal Structure of the Photosynthetic Reaction Center from Rhodopseudomonas viridis ....Pages 1-3
Structure of the Reaction Center from Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26 and 2.4.1....Pages 5-11
Symmetry Breaking Structures Involved in the Docking of Cytochrome c and Primary Electron Transfer in Reaction Centers of Rhodobacter sphaeroides ....Pages 13-20
Crystallographic Studies of the Photosynthetic Reaction Center from Wild Type Rhodobacter sphaeroides (Y Strain)....Pages 21-25
Single Crystals of the Photochemical Reaction Center from Rhodobacter sphaeroides Wild Type Strain 2.4.1 Analyzed by Polarized Light....Pages 27-32
Spectroscopic Studies of Crystallized Pigment-protein Complexes of R. Palustris ....Pages 33-39
Protein-prosthetic Group Interactions in Bacterial Reaction Centers....Pages 41-50
Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy of Photoreaction Centers....Pages 51-57
Low Temperature Linear Dichroism Study of the Orientation of the Pigments in Reduced and Oxidized Reaction Centers of Rps. viridis and Rb. sphaeroides ....Pages 59-69
Anisotropic Magnetic Field Effects of the Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Center of Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26, Studied by Linear Dichroic Magneto-optical Difference Spectroscopy (LD-MODS) in the Temperature Range 1.2 – 310 K....Pages 71-88
Bacterial Reaction Centers are Intrinsically Heterogeneous....Pages 89-99
Reaction Centers of Purple Bacteria with Modified Chromophores....Pages 101-111
Quantitative Analysis of Genetically Altered Reaction Centers Using an In Vitro Cytochrome Oxidation Assay....Pages 113-118
Properties of Reaction Centers from the Green Photosynthetic Bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus ....Pages 119-127
Structural and Functional Properties of the Reaction Center of Green Bacteria and Heliobacteria....Pages 129-138
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of the Primary Processes in the Photosynthetic Reaction Center of Rhodopseudomonas viridis ....Pages 139-150
The Stark Effect in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26, Rhodopseudomonas viridis and the D 1 D 2 Complex of Photosystem II from Spinach....Pages 151-164
The Nature of Excited States and Intermediates in Bacterial Photosynthesis....Pages 165-176
On the Energetics of the States 1 P*, 3 P* and P + H − in Reaction Centers of Rb. sphaeroides ....Pages 177-183
The Possible Existence of a Charge Transfer State which Preceeds the Formation of (BChl) 2 + BPh − in Rhodobacter sphaeroides Reaction Centers....Pages 185-194
The Primary Electron Transfer in Photosynthetic Purple Bacteria: Long Range Electron Transfer in the Femtosecond Domain at Low Temperature....Pages 195-203
The Problem of Primary Energy Conversion in Reaction Centers of Photosynthetic Bacteria....Pages 205-218
Temperature Effects on the Ground State Absorption Spectra and Electron Transfer Kinetics of Bacterial Reaction Centers....Pages 219-228
ENDOR of Exchangeable Protons of the Reduced Intermediate Acceptor in Reaction Centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26....Pages 229-235
FTIR Spectroscopic Investigations of the Intermediary Electron Acceptor Photoreduction in Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria and Green Plants....Pages 237-250
Charge Recombination at Low Temperature in Photosynthetic Bacteria Reaction Centers....Pages 251-258
Temperature and -ΔG° Dependence of the Electron Transfer to and from Q A in Reaction Center Protein from Rhodobacter sphaeroides ....Pages 259-269
The Effect of an Electric Field on the Charge Recombination Rate of D + Q − A → DQ A in Reaction Centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26....Pages 271-287
Pressure Effects on Electron Transfer in Bacterial Reaction Centers....Pages 289-293
The Spectral Properties of Chlorophyll and Bacteriochlorophyll Dimers; a Comparative Study....Pages 295-307
Spectroscopic Properties and Electron Transfer Dynamics of Reaction Centers....Pages 309-317
Analysis of A,LD,CD,ADMR and LD-ADMR Spectra for the Reaction Centers of Rps.viridis, Rb.sphaeroides, C.aurantiacus and Modified Rb.sphaeroides....Pages 319-329
Modified-CI Model of Protein-induced Red Shifts of Reaction Center Pigment Spectra....Pages 331-339
Temperature Dependence of the Longwavelength Absorption Band of the Reaction Center of Rhodopseudomonas viridis ....Pages 341-349
Discussion of the Large Homogeneous Width of the P-Band in Bacterial- and Plant Reaction Centers....Pages 351-354
Theoretical Models of Electrochromic and Environmental Effects on Bacterio-Chlorophylls and -Pheophytins in Reaction Centers....Pages 355-367
Electrostatic Control of Electron Transfer in the Photosynthetic Reaction Center of Rhodopseudomonas viridis ....Pages 369-377
Molecular Orbital Studies on the Primary Donor P 960 in Reaction Centers of Rps. viridis ....Pages 379-388
Early Steps in Bacterial Photosynthesis. Comparison of Three Mechanisms....Pages 389-398
Mechanism of the Primary Charge Separation in Bacterial Photosynthetic Reaction Centers....Pages 399-419
A Configuration Interaction (CI) Description of Vectorial Electron Transfer in Bacterial Reaction Centres....Pages 421-424
Charge Transfer States and the Mechanism of Charge Separation in Bacterial Reaction Centers....Pages 425-433
Light Reflections....Pages 435-440
Back Matter....Pages 441-443