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Triplet state of the primary donor in reaction centers of the phototrophic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides R26 with active photoinduced electron transfer

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EPR characteristics of transient paramagnetic states photoinduced in isolated reaction centers of Rhodobacter sphaeroides R26 with intact electron transfer have been studied. It was demonstrated that the detected weak triplet state EPR signal belongs to the primary donor molecule and is populated via the conventional mechanism of radical pair S-T0 mixing. The distortion of the spectral shape of this signal is explained by the triplet quantum yield anisotropy brought about by the short lifetime of precursor radical pairs. The angular dependence of the anisotropy was evaluated. It was shown that the spectral shape of the triplet state of photosystem II reaction center observed in the case of singly-reduced primary quinone acceptor can also be described by the anisotropic quantum yield of the triplet, with practically the same angular dependence. These properties confirm the conclusions on the mechanism of photoinduced electron transfer in photosystem II, made in previous publications. The peculiarities in the functioning of photosystem II reaction centers are probably determined by strict limitations on the triplet state generation.

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    I. B. Klenina, A. N. Kuzmin, T. Yu. Fufina, N. D. Gudkov & I. I. Proskuryakov

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Original Russian Text © I.B. Klenina, A.N. Kuzmin, T.Yu. Fufina, N.D. Gudkov, I.I. Proskuryakov, 2011, published in Biofizika, 2011, Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 446–454.

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Klenina, I.B., Kuzmin, A.N., Fufina, T.Y. et al. Triplet state of the primary donor in reaction centers of the phototrophic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides R26 with active photoinduced electron transfer. BIOPHYSICS 56, 429–435 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006350911030110

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