The Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Center

1. Front Matter

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2. The Crystal Structure of the Photosynthetic Reaction Center from Rhodopseudomonas viridis

   • Johann Deisenhofer, Hartmut Michel

   Pages 1-3

3. Structure of the Reaction Center from Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26 and 2.4.1

   • J. P. Allen, G. Feher, T. O. Yeates, H. Komiya, D. C. Rees

   Pages 5-11

4. Symmetry Breaking Structures Involved in the Docking of Cytochrome c and Primary Electron Transfer in Reaction Centers of Rhodobacter sphaeroides

   • D. M. Tiede, D. E. Budil, J. Tang, O. El-Kabbani, J. R. Norris, C.-H. Chang et al.

   Pages 13-20

5. Crystallographic Studies of the Photosynthetic Reaction Center from Wild Type Rhodobacter sphaeroides (Y Strain)

   • Arnaud Ducruix, Bernadette Arnoux, Françoise Reiss-Husson

   Pages 21-25

6. Single Crystals of the Photochemical Reaction Center from Rhodobacter sphaeroides Wild Type Strain 2.4.1 Analyzed by Polarized Light

   • Harry A. Frank, Shahriar S. Taremi, James R. Knox, Werner Mäntele

   Pages 27-32

7. Spectroscopic Studies of Crystallized Pigment-protein Complexes of R. Palustris

   • W. Mäntele, K. Steck, A. Becker, T. Wacker, W. Welte, N. Gad’on et al.

   Pages 33-39

8. Protein-prosthetic Group Interactions in Bacterial Reaction Centers

   • Marc Lutz, Bruno Robert, Qing Zhou, Jean-Michel Neumann, Wojciech Szponarski, Gérard Berger

   Pages 41-50

9. Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy of Photoreaction Centers

   • Ted Mar, Gabriel Gingras

   Pages 51-57

10. Low Temperature Linear Dichroism Study of the Orientation of the Pigments in Reduced and Oxidized Reaction Centers of Rps. viridis and Rb. sphaeroides

    • J. Breton

    Pages 59-69

11. 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

    • E. J. Lous, A. J. Hoff

    Pages 71-88

12. Bacterial Reaction Centers are Intrinsically Heterogeneous

    • A. J. Hoff

    Pages 89-99

13. Reaction Centers of Purple Bacteria with Modified Chromophores

    • H. Scheer, D. Beese, R. Steiner, A. Angerhofer

    Pages 101-111

14. Quantitative Analysis of Genetically Altered Reaction Centers Using an In Vitro Cytochrome Oxidation Assay

    • Edward J. Bylina, Raffael Jovine, Douglas C. Youvan

    Pages 113-118

15. Properties of Reaction Centers from the Green Photosynthetic Bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus

    • Robert E. Blankenship, Jeffrey T. Trost, L. J. Mancino

    Pages 119-127

16. Structural and Functional Properties of the Reaction Center of Green Bacteria and Heliobacteria

    • J. Amesz

    Pages 129-138

17. Molecular Dynamics Simulation of the Primary Processes in the Photosynthetic Reaction Center of Rhodopseudomonas viridis

    • H. Treutlein, K. Schulten, J. Deisenhofer, H. Michel, A. Brünger, M. Karplus

    Pages 139-150

18. The Stark Effect in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26, Rhodopseudomonas viridis and the D₁D₂ Complex of Photosystem II from Spinach

    • M. Lösche, G. Feher, M. Y. Okamura

    Pages 151-164

19. The Nature of Excited States and Intermediates in Bacterial Photosynthesis

    • Steven G. Boxer, Richard A. Goldstein, David J. Lockhart, Thomas R. Middendorf, Larry Takiff

    Pages 165-176

20. On the Energetics of the States ¹P*, ³P* and P⁺H⁻ in Reaction Centers of Rb. sphaeroides

    • A. Ogrodnik, M. Volk, M. E. Michel-Beyerle

    Pages 177-183

This volume contains the contributions from the speakers at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Structure of the Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Center X-ray Crystallography and Optical Spectroscopy with Polarized Light" which was held at the "Maison d'Hotes" of the Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Cadarache in the South of France, 20-25 September, 1987. This meeting continued in the spirit of a previous workshop which took place in Feldafing (FRG), March 1985. Photosynthetic reaction centers are intrinsic membrane proteins which, by performing a photoinduced transmembrane charge separation, are responsible for the conversion and storage of solar energy. Since the pioneering work of Reed and Clayton (1968) on the isolation of the reaction center from photosynthetic bacteria, optical spectroscopy with polarized light has been one of the main tools used to investigate the geometrical arrangement of the various chromophores in these systems. The recent elucidation by X-ray crystallography of the structure of several bacterial reaction centers, a breakthrough initiated by Michel and Deisenhofer, has provided us with the atomic coordinates of the pigments and some details about their interactions with neighboring aminoacid residues. This essential step has given a large impetus both to experimentalists and to theoreticians who are now attempting to relate the X-ray structural model to the optical properties of the reaction center and ultimately to its primary biological function.

• ENDOR
• FTIR
• Oxidation
• Protein
• X-ray
• bacteria
• life sciences
• low temperature
• photosynthesis
• photosystem
• pigment-protein
• proteins
• spectroscopy
• temperature
• temperature effects

• CEN Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

  Jacques Breton

• ARBS, CEN Cadarache, Saint Paul lez Durance, France

  André Verméglio

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