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Electrogenic Reactions Associated with Electron Transfer in Photosystem I

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Photosystem I

Part of the book series: Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration ((AIPH,volume 24))

Abstract

Photoelectric methods to study charge transfer processes in photosynthetic organisms are reviewed along with comparative analyses of photoelectric reactions in Photosystem I, Photosystem II, and the reaction center of purple bacteria. Particular emphasis is placed on a comparison of dielectrically weighted photoelectric signal amplitudes with local structural parameters obtained from the X-ray diffraction data.

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  1. A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    Alexey Yu. Semenov & Mahir D. Mamedov

  2. Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

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Semenov, A.Y., Mamedov, M.D., Chamorovsky, S.K. (2006). Electrogenic Reactions Associated with Electron Transfer in Photosystem I. In: Golbeck, J.H. (eds) Photosystem I. Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4256-0_21

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