title: Oxygenic photosynthesis. Electron transfer in photosystem I and photosystem II.
abstract: Photosystems I and II drive oxygenic photosynthesis. This requires biochemical systems with remarkable properties, allowing these membrane-bound pigment-protein complexes to oxidise water and produce NAD(P)H. The protein environment provides a scaffold in the membrane on which cofactors are placed at optimum distance and orientation, ensuring a rapid, efficient trapping and conversion of light energy. The polypeptide core also tunes the redox potentials of cofactors and provides for unidirectional progress of various reaction steps. The electron transfer pathways use a variety of inorganic and organic cofactors, including amino acids. This review sets out some of the current ideas and data on the cofactors and polypeptides of photosystems I and II.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University College London, UK.
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Nugent
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D004579:Electron Transport; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010100:Oxygen / Q000378:metabolism*; D010777:Photochemistry; D010788:Photosynthesis / Q000502:physiology*; D045322:Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D045331:Photosystem I Protein Complex; D045332:Photosystem II Protein Complex; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D045322:Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins; D045331:Photosystem I Protein Complex; D045332:Photosystem II Protein Complex; D010940:Plant Proteins; D010100:Oxygen