Plugging a molecular wire into photosystem I: reconstitution of the photoelectric conversion system on a gold electrode.
Plug and play: Photoinduced electron transfer occurs from photoexcited P700 in photosystem I (PSI) to a gold surface (see picture). A novel molecular connector system is used, in which an artificial molecular wire, which is assembled on the gold surface, was plugged into PSI by reconstitution. Analysis of the photoelectron transfer kinetics proved both the output of electrons from PSI and the effectiveness of the molecular wire.
Terasaki
Nao
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National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 807-1 Shuku-machi, Tosu, Saga 841-0052, Japan. nao-terasaki@aist.go.jp
Yamamoto
Noritaka
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Hiraga
Takashi
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Yamanoi
Yoshinori
Y
Yonezawa
Tetsu
T
Nishihara
Hiroshi
H
Ohmori
Tsutomu
T
Sakai
Makoto
M
Fujii
Masaaki
M
Tohri
Akihiko
A
Iwai
Masako
M
Inoue
Yasunori
Y
Yoneyama
Satoshi
S
Minakata
Makoto
M
Enami
Isao
I
D004566:Electrodes; D004579:Electron Transport; D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry*; D007700:Kinetics; D053768:Metal Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry; D045331:Photosystem I Protein Complex / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D010837:Vitamin K 1 / Q000737:chemistry
D045331:Photosystem I Protein Complex; D006046:Gold; D010837:Vitamin K 1