title: Plugging a molecular wire into photosystem I: reconstitution of the photoelectric conversion system on a gold electrode.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 807-1 Shuku-machi, Tosu, Saga 841-0052, Japan. nao-terasaki@aist.go.jp
authors.forename: Nao
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Terasaki
authors.forename: Noritaka
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hiraga
authors.forename: Yoshinori
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamanoi
authors.forename: Tetsu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yonezawa
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nishihara
authors.forename: Tsutomu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ohmori
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sakai
authors.forename: Masaaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fujii
authors.forename: Akihiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tohri
authors.forename: Masako
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Iwai
authors.forename: Yasunori
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Inoue
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yoneyama
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Minakata
authors.forename: Isao
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Enami
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D045331:Photosystem I Protein Complex; D006046:Gold; D010837:Vitamin K 1