title: Nobel lecture. A structural basis of light energy and electron transfer in biology.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Huber
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D004579:Electron Transport / Q000502:physiology*; D004735:Energy Transfer / Q000502:physiology*; D008027:Light; D045342:Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009613:Nobel Prize; D045322:Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins; D045524:Phycobilisomes; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D010970:Plastocyanin / Q000502:physiology; D011487:Protein Conformation; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D045342:Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes; D045322:Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins; D045524:Phycobilisomes; D010940:Plant Proteins; D010970:Plastocyanin