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We have investigated electrostatic properties of the photosynthetic reaction center of Rhodopseudomonas viridis, the molecular structure of which has been solved recently by X-ray crystallographic analysis1,2. Our calculations involved both time-averaged electrostatic properties as can be obtained from the static X-ray structure of the protein as well as fluctuating and time-varying electrostatic properties due to thermal motion of the reaction center and structural rearrangment after electron transfer. The latter properties were derived from a molecular dynamics simulation3.
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Treutlein, H., Schulten, K., Niedermeier, C., Deisenhofer, J., Michel, H., DeVault, D. (1988). Electrostatic Control of Electron Transfer in the Photosynthetic Reaction Center of Rhodopseudomonas viridis . In: Breton, J., Verméglio, A. (eds) The Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Center. NATO ASI Series, vol 149. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0815-5_37
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