title: Dielectric and photoelectric properties of photosynthetic reaction centers.
abstract: A brief review of studies of dielectric and photoelectric properties of photosynthetic reaction centers of purple bacteria as well as photosystem I and photosystem II of cyanobacteria and higher plants is given. A simple kinetic model of the primary processes of electron transfer in photosynthesis is used to discuss possible mechanisms of correlation between rate constant of charge transfer reaction, free energy of electron transition, and effective dielectric constant in the locus of corresponding carriers.
authors.affiliation: Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology and Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: C S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Chamorovsky
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Chamorovsky
authors.forename: A Yu
authors.initials: AY
authors.lastname: Semenov
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000737:chemistry; D004579:Electron Transport; D004594:Electrophysiology; D007700:Kinetics; D010777:Photochemistry; D010788:Photosynthesis; D045322:Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D045322:Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins