The 2-methoxy group of ubiquinone is essential for function of the acceptor quinones in reaction centers from Rba. sphaeroides

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Primary acceptor in bacterial photosynthesis: obligatory role of ubiquinone in photoactive reaction centers of Rhodopseudomonas spheroides.

M. Y. Okamura, R. A. Isaacson, G. Fehér · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1975 · 396 citations · Full text

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Electron transfer in reaction centers of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. I. Determination of the charge recombination pathway of D+QAQ−B and free energy and kinetic relations between Q−AQB and QAQ−B

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Kinetic studies on the reaction center protein from Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides: the temperature and free energy dependence of electron transfer between various quinones in the QA site and the oxidized bacteriochlorophyll dimer

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Radical-pair energetics and decay mechanisms in reaction centers containing anthraquinones, naphthoquinones or benzoquinones in place of ubiquinone

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