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Electron transfer in bacterial reaction centers (RCs) is determined by the three-dimensional arrangement and by the electronic structure of the reacting pigments. The primary donor D — a bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) dimer — is of particular interest due to its specialized function in the primary charge separation step.1 The structure of BChl a, the pigment constituting the dimer in all RCs investigated in this work, is shown in Figure 1.
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Rautter, J. et al. (1992). EPR and Endor Studies of the Primary Donor Cation Radical in Native and Genetically Modified Bacterial Reaction Centers. In: Breton, J., Verméglio, A. (eds) The Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Center II. Nato ASI Series, vol 237. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3050-3_12
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