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The electron transfer process in bacterial reaction centers is investigated. It is found that the side indole group Trp M252 in Rb sphaeroides (Trp M250 in Rps viridis) assists tunneling electron transfer by a distance of ∼14Å from pheophytin to quinone.
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Reported at the VIIIth International Conference on Spectroscopy of Porphyrins and Their Analogs, Minsk, September 22–26, 1998.
Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 66, No. 4, pp. 496–500, July–August, 1999.
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Larsson, S., Ivashin, N.V. Porphyrin analogs in bacterial photosynthesis. J Appl Spectrosc 66, 539–543 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02675382
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