Ironies in photosynthetic electron transport: a personal perspective

  • William A. Cramer
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Part of the Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration book series (AIPH, volume 20)

Abstract

In this brief personal perspective, studies, mainly in my laboratory, directed toward understanding of the structure and function of the Fe-metalloprotein electron transport carriers of oxygenic photosynthesis are discussed. This level of understanding and the description of the events that led to this level are inevitably incomplete. The Fe-proteins considered are those, cytochromes b-559 (560), f, b 6, and x, and the Rieske [2Fe−2S] iron-sulfur protein, which have now been placed in a structural context as a result of X-ray diffraction analysis of crystals of Photosystem II and the cytochrome b 6 f complex and the Photosystem II reaction center.

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Jerry Babcock Derek Bendall Mick Black L. Bogorad Herbert Böhme Warren L. Butler Tony Crofts crystal structure cytochrome cytochrome b6f complex electron transfer Mike Everly Paul Furbacher Mark Girvin John Gray Reinhold Herrmann Peter Horton Deru Huang Anne and Pierre Joliot Bessel Kok Genji Kurisu Dick Malkin Daniel Picot plastoquinone Misha Ponamarev Jean-Luc Popot proton transfer Rieske iron-sulfur protein Janet Smith Glenda Soriano David Stroebel Gun-Sik Tae Achim Trebst Olivier Vallon Julian Whitelegge John Whitmarsh Bill Widger X-ray diffraction Jiusheng Yan Huamin Zhang 
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  • William A. Cramer
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  1. 1.Department of Biological Sciences, Lilly Hall of Life SciencesPurdue UniversityWest LafayetteUSA

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