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Nobel lecture. A structural basis of light energy and electron transfer in biology.
Author(s) -
Huber R.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
the embo journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.484
H-Index - 392
eISSN - 1460-2075
pISSN - 0261-4189
DOI - 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1989.tb08337.x
Subject(s) - biology , basis (linear algebra) , energy transfer , energy (signal processing) , biophysics , engineering physics , physics , quantum mechanics , geometry , mathematics
Aspects of intramolecular light energy and electron transfer will be discussed for three protein‐‐cofactor complexes, whose three‐dimensional structures have been elucidated by X‐ray crystallography: components of light‐harvesting cyanobacterial phycobilisomes; the purple bacterial reaction centre; and the blue multi‐copper oxidases. A wealth of functional data is available for these systems which allows specific correlations between structure and function and general conclusions about light energy and electron transfer in biological materials to be made.