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In this brief personal perspective, studies, mainly in my laboratory, directed toward understanding of the structure and function of the Fe-metalloprotein electron transport carriers of oxygenic photosynthesis are discussed. This level of understanding and the description of the events that led to this level are inevitably incomplete. The Fe-proteins considered are those, cytochromes b-559 (560), f, b 6, and x, and the Rieske [2Fe–2S] iron—sulfur protein, which have now been placed in a structural context as a result of X-ray diffraction analysis of crystals of Photosystem II and the cytochrome b 6 f complex and the Photosystem II reaction center.
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Cramer, W.A. Ironies in Photosynthetic Electron Transport: A Personal Perspective. Photosynthesis Research 80, 293–305 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:PRES.0000030600.28313.58
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- Mike Everly
- Paul Furbacher
- Mark Girvin
- John Gray
- Reinhold Herrmann
- Peter Horton
- Deru Huang
- Anne and Pierre Joliot
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- Genji Kurisu
- Dick Malkin
- Daniel Picot
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- Jean-Luc Popot
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- Glenda Soriano
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- Julian Whitelegge
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- Bill Widger
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