The purple bacterial photosynthetic unit |
| |
Authors: | Richard J Cogdell Paul K Fyfe Stuart J Barrett Stephen M Prince Andrew A Freer Neil W Isaacs Peter McGlynn C Neil Hunter |
| |
Institution: | (1) Department of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ Glasgow, UK;(2) Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, S10 2TN Sheffield, UK |
| |
Abstract: | Now is a very exciting time for researchers in the area of the primary reactions of purple bacterial photosynthesis. Detailed structural information is now available for not only the reaction center (Lancaster et al. 1995, in: Blankenship RE et al. (eds) Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria, pp 503–526), but also LH2 from Rhodopseudomonas acidophila (McDermott et al. 1995, Nature 374: 517–521) and LH1 from Rhodospirillum rubrum (Karrasch et al. 1995. EMBO J 14: 631–638). These structures can now be integrated to produce models of the complete photosynthetic unit (PSU) (Papiz et al., 1996, Trends Plant Sci, in press), which opens the door to a much more detailed understanding of the energy transfer events occurring within the PSU.Abbreviations Bchl
bacteriochlorophyll
- LH
light-harvesting
- PSU
photosynthetic unit
Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences |
| |
Keywords: | bacteriochlorophyll energy transfer light-harvesting complexes membrane proteins photosynthetic bacteria reaction centres |
本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录! |
|