Open AccessA structural basis of light energy and electron transfer in biology
Author(s) -
HUBER Robert
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
european journal of biochemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1432-1033
pISSN - 0014-2956
DOI - 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1990.tb15305.x
Subject(s) - phycobilisome , intramolecular force , electron transfer , light energy , energy transfer , electron , blue light , chemistry , biophysics , photochemistry , chemical physics , materials science , physics , biology , cyanobacteria , optics , stereochemistry , genetics , quantum mechanics , bacteria
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 allow specific correlations between structure and function, and general conclusions about light energy and electron transfer in biological materials to be made.