The Structure and Function of Chlorophyll-Proteins in Photosystem I and The Light Harvesting Complex of Photosystem Ii
The functional units of chloroplast membranes which mediate photosynthetic electron transport from water to NADP are structurally organized into integral complexes. Two of these membrane-bound complexes, Photosystem I (PS I) and Photosystem II (PS II), consist in part of chlorophyll proteins. The chlorophyll-protein function to absorb incident light energy and to transfer absorbed energy to photochemical reaction centers where charge separation occurs. The structure and function of the chlorophyll-proteins of PS I and the light harvesting complex of PS II have been analyzed to provide information concerning the organization of pigmented proteins in photosynthetic membranes.
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