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Chlorophyll a Dimers Bound in the Water-Soluble Protein BoWSCP Photosensitize the Reduction of Cytochrome c
When bound to water-soluble proteins of the WSCP family, chlorophyll molecules form dimers structurally similar to the “special pair” of chlorophylls (bacteriochlorophylls) in photosynthetic reaction centers. ...
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Water Soluble Chlorophyll-Binding Proteins of Plants: Structure, Properties and Functions
Water soluble chlorophyll-binding proteins (WSCPs) of higher plants differ from most proteins containing chlorophyll or bacteriochlorophyll in that they are soluble in watr and are neither embedded in the lipi...
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On the mechanism of photosensitized luminescence of singlet oxygen dimols in air-saturated pigment solutions
Luminescence of singlet oxygen dimols (1O2)2 was studied in aerobic solutions of a nonfluorescent photosensitizer phenalenone in CCl4 and C6F6 using a setup with a mechanical phosphoroscope and relatively low rat...
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Photoinhibition of photosystem II in vitro: Spectral and kinetic analyses
Two different preparations of photosystem II (PSII) (BBY-type membrane fragments and PSII core complexes) were isolated from 14-day-old pea seedlings (Pisum sativum L.) and used for spectral and kinetic study of ...
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Photoreduction of Molecular Oxygen in Preparations of Photosystem II under Photoinhibitory Conditions
Preparations of photosystem II (PSII) from pea (Pisum sativum L.) leaves were used to study the evolution and reduction of molecular oxygen under photoinhibitory conditions. Under these conditions, the photoinduc...
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ΔpH-Dependent Fluorescence Quenching and Its Photoprotective Role in the Unicellular Red Alga Rhodella Violacea
Plants have developed various photoprotective mechanisms to resist irradiation stress. One of the photoprotective mechanisms described in the literature for LHC2-containing organisms involves a down-regulation...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Evolutionary Aspects of Coenzyme Photobiochemistry
Photochemical processes driven by solar photons have strongly impacted prebiotic accumulation of organic molecules in outer space and on the Earth, and today photosynthesis is an ultimate source of organic mat...