Characterization of light-harvesting bacteriochlorophyll-protein complexes from photosynthetic bacteria

Technical Report · Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1976

OSTI ID:7131099

Austin, L A

Bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) is the primary light absorbing pigment in the photosynthetic bacteria. While all of the bacteriochlorophyll present in the membranes of a given species of photosynthetic bacteria is structurally homogeneous, it serves two distinctly different functions. The majority of the BChl present in the membranes serves as an antenna or light-harvesting system which transfers excitation energy to a group of specialized BChl molecules called a reaction center. At the reaction center the excitation energy is converted to a charge separation which initiates the process of photosynthesis. Biochemical reactions are described.

• Research Organization: California Univ., Berkeley (USA). Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 7131099
• Report Number(s): LBL-5512
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Thesis
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
BACTERIA
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
BIOCHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS
CELL MEMBRANES
CHLOROPHYLL
PHOTOCHEMISTRY
CARBOXYLIC ACIDS
CELL CONSTITUENTS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CHEMISTRY
HETEROCYCLIC ACIDS
HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
KINETICS
MEMBRANES
MICROORGANISMS
ORGANIC ACIDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS
PHYTOCHROMES
PIGMENTS
PORPHYRINS
REACTION KINETICS
SYNTHESIS
550200* - Biochemistry