Functional type 2
photosynthetic reaction centers found in the rare bacterial phylum Gemmatimonadetes.
«Having a better understanding of where the energy levels are will be very helpful for establishing the structure - function relationships of
these photosynthetic reaction centers.»
Photons excite the pigments, which triggers energy transfer in
the photosynthetic reaction centers.
Jennifer Ogilvie, U-M professor of physics and biophysics, studied
photosynthetic reaction centers in purple bacteria.
From there, the energy is shuttled to
a photosynthetic reaction center protein that starts to channel energy from light through the photosynthetic process.
The photosynthetic reaction center is a membrane protein as well — the very first membrane protein whose structure could be elucidated.
Not exact matches
Meyer, a chemist at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of its Energy Frontier Research
Center in Solar Fuels, noticed that two separate groups of researchers working on two separate parts of the
photosynthetic reaction happened to be using the same class of catalyst — ones with an atom of the metal ruthenium surrounded by organic molecules.
A microscopic method for simulating quantum mechanical, nuclear tunneling effects in biological electron transfer
reactions is presented and applied to several electron transfer steps in
photosynthetic bacterial
reaction centers.