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Ironies in photosynthetic electron transport: a personal perspective

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Discoveries in Photosynthesis

Part of the book series: Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration ((AIPH,volume 20))

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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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  1. Department of Biological Sciences, Lilly Hall of Life Sciences, Purdue University, 915 West State Street, West Lafayette, IN, 47906-2054, USA

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  1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA

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  3. Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

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Cramer, W.A. (2005). Ironies in photosynthetic electron transport: a personal perspective. In: Govindjee, Beatty, J.T., Gest, H., Allen, J.F. (eds) Discoveries in Photosynthesis. Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3324-9_48

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