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Genes and Polypeptides of Photosystem II

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Photosystem II catalyses the light-driven transfer of electrons from water to plastoquinone, producing oxygen and generating a proton gradient across the thylakoid membrane. The complex may be regarded as made up of three assemblies of polypeptides: a light-harvesting complex (LHCH), a core complex containing the reaction centre and two antenna chlorophyll proteins, and an extrinsic complex concerned with oxygen evolution. Photosystem II is structually the most complex of the supramolecular assemblies of the thylakoid membrane and is currently recognised to be composed of at least 20 different polypeptides.1

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Gray, J.C., Hird, S.M., Wales, R., Webber, A.N., Willey, D.L. (1989). Genes and Polypeptides of Photosystem II. In: Barber, J., Malkin, R. (eds) Techniques and New Developments in Photosynthesis Research. NATO ASI Series, vol 168. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8571-4_50

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