In our lectures we first describe the history and methods of membrane protein crystallization,
before we show how the structure of the photosynthetic reaction centre from the purple …

The fundamental photochemical reaction of photosynthetic energy conversion, which
transforms the photon energy of light in chemical free energy, takes places in a membrane …

Excitons are considered as the basic concept used by describing the spectral properties of
photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes and excitation dynamics in photosynthetic light …

The history and methods of membrane protein crystallization are described. The solution of
the structure of the photosynthetic reaction center from the bacterium Rhodopseudomonas …

In 1961, two concepts of energy coupling were published, one by Mitchell I and the other by
Williams z, both dealing with the transfer of charges (electrons, H÷, OH-) in biological energy …

Our concept of biological membranes has markedly changed, from the fluid mosaic model to
the current model that lipids and proteins have the ability to separate into microdomains …

Photosynthetic organisms transform the energy of sunlight into chemical potential in a
specialized membrane-bound pigment-protein complex called the reaction center. Following …

An X‐ray structure analysis of the photosynthetic reaction centre from the purple bacterium
Rhodopseudomonas viridis provides structural details of the pigment‐binding sites. The …

The invention of the laser in 1960 gave us the ruby laser, which generally produced chaotic
pulses of light. Six years later, in 1966, a concept called passive mode-locking applied to …

We consider a model of the photosystem II (PS II) reaction center in which its spectral
properties result from weak (approximately 100 cm-1) excitonic interactions between the …