The Reaction Center of Photosynthetic Bacteria Structure and Dynamics [Paperback]

Results of this third Feldafing Meeting can be considered as the harvest of novel techniques in spectroscopy, biochemistry and molecular biology to the bacterial photosynthetic reaction center. New information pertains to the crystallographic and electronic structure as well as to the dynamics of primary events and the role of the protein. The answer to one long-standing problem, the mechanism of primary charge separation, converges towards a sequential scheme, supported by femtosecond spectroscopy on reaction centers with selectively modified energetics.Proceedings of the Workshop on The Reaction Center of Photosynthetic Bacteria Structure and Dynamics held from March 1 - 4, 1995, in Feldafing, Bavaria (Germany)Results of this third Feldafing Meeting can be considered as the harvest of novel techniques in spectroscopy, biochemistry and molecular biology to the bacterial photosynthetic reaction center. New information pertains to the crystallographic and electronic structure as well as to the dynamics of primary events and the role of the protein. The answer to one long-standing problem, the mechanism of primary charge separation, converges towards a sequential scheme, supported by femtosecond spectroscopy on reaction centers with selectively modified energetics.1: Crystallographic and Electronic Structure.- Crystallization and Structure of the Photosynthetic Reaction Centres from Rhodobacter sphaeroides  Wild Type and Mutants.- The Crystal Structure of Allophycocyanin and its Comparison to C-Phycocyanin and b-Phycoerythrin.- New Insights into the X-Ray Structure of the Reaction Center form Rhodopseudomonas viridis.- Effect of Orbital Asymmetry in P?+ on Electron Transfer in Reaction Centers of Rb. sphaeroides.- ENDOR on the Primary Electron Donor Cation Radical of Heterodimer-Double-Mutants of Rb. sphaeroides. Effect of Hydrogen Bonding on the Electronic Structure of Bacteriochlorophyll ?-type Radicals.- Structure Information on the Bacterial Primary Donor P+?, Aclƒ*