Connecting photosynthetic light harvesting and charge separation at higher detail

27.06.2014

Einsle O

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2014;53(31):7988-90

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl      online article

Beside the unique reaction center, efficient organismic photosynthesis requires additional arrays of chromophores to harvest photons and direct them by resonance energy transfer to the interspersed sites of charge separation. A crystal structure of the complex of a bacterial reaction center with light harvesting complex I now reveals new details on how the storage ring interacts with and connects to the site of charge separation.