Abstract
The photosynthetic membrane is the site of the primary reaction of photosynthesis. It converts light energy into chemical energy by the aid of the Chlorophyll molecules. The membrane thereby acts not only as a barrier for the Separation of the primary oxidation and reduction products, but also as a matrix for the electrochemical reaction chain (for a review see Loach, 1976; Witt, 1971). Based on the vast amount of spectroscopic and biochemical data, one elementary photoconversion process is thought to be localized within a functional and structural photosynthetic unit (Schmid and Gaffron, 1968). Such a photosynthetic unit assembles the light-harvesting and reaction center pigment-protein complexes and its associated electron transport chain. The search for the morphological equivalent of such a unit has dominated structure research in photosynthetic membranes (Mühlethaler, 1977).
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Wehrli, E., Kübler, O. (1980). The Two — Dimensional Lattice of the Photosynthetic Membrane of Rhodopseudomonas viridis . In: Baumeister, W., Vogell, W. (eds) Electron Microscopy at Molecular Dimensions. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67688-8_6
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