Protein structure, electron transfer and evolution of prokaryotic photosynthetic reaction centers.
Photosynthetic reaction centers from a variety of organisms have been isolated and characterized. The groups of prokaryotic photosynthetic organisms include the purple bacteria, the filamentous green bacteria, the green sulfur bacteria and the heliobacteria as anoxygenic representatives as well as the cyanobacteria and prochlorophytes as oxygenic representatives. This review focuses on structural and functional comparisons of the various groups of photosynthetic reaction centers and considers possible evolutionary scenarios to explain the diversity of existing photosynthetic organisms.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287-1604.
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004579:Electron Transport; D007501:Iron / Q000737:chemistry; D008954:Models, Biological; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015394:Molecular Structure; D045322:Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D011387:Prokaryotic Cells / Q000378:metabolism*; D011487:Protein Conformation
D045322:Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins; D007501:Iron