TY - JOUR
T1 - The complex architecture of oxygenic photosynthesis
AU - Nelson, Nathan
AU - Ben-Shem, Adam
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank W. Frasch for the use of his structural model of F-ATPase (figure 6). A.B.-S. is a recipient of a Charles Clore Foundation Ph.D. student scholarship. The work of N.N. is supported by the Israel Science Foundation.
PY - 2004/12
Y1 - 2004/12
N2 - Oxygenic photosynthesis is the principal producer of both oxygen and organic matter on earth. The primary step in this process - the conversion of sunlight into chemical energy - is driven by four, multisubunit, membrane-protein complexes that are known as photosystem I, photosystem II, cytochrome b6f and F-ATPase. Structural insights into these complexes are now providing a framework for the exploration not only of energy and electron transfer, but also of the evolutionary forces that shaped the photosynthetic apparatus.
AB - Oxygenic photosynthesis is the principal producer of both oxygen and organic matter on earth. The primary step in this process - the conversion of sunlight into chemical energy - is driven by four, multisubunit, membrane-protein complexes that are known as photosystem I, photosystem II, cytochrome b6f and F-ATPase. Structural insights into these complexes are now providing a framework for the exploration not only of energy and electron transfer, but also of the evolutionary forces that shaped the photosynthetic apparatus.
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U2 - 10.1038/nrm1525
DO - 10.1038/nrm1525
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AN - SCOPUS:10044254637
SN - 1471-0072
VL - 5
SP - 971
EP - 982
JO - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
JF - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
IS - 12
ER -