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. 2017 Apr 11;114(15):3790-3791.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1703163114. Epub 2017 Mar 30.

Design of energy-transducing artificial cells

James P Allen  1
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Design of energy-transducing artificial cells

James P Allen. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Three-dimensional structure of the reaction center from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. The highly hydrophobic L (yellow) and M (blue) subunits, each of which contains five transmembrane helices, are largely buried within the cell membrane, whereas the hydrophilic H subunit (cyan) largely resides in the cytoplasm, except for the single transmembrane helix. Light absorption by the reaction center results in the vectorial transfer of an electron among the cofactors (red) from the periplasmic to the cytoplasmic sides of the reaction center. After absorption of a second photon, the doubly reduced secondary quinone picks up two protons from the cytoplasmic space, forming the quinol.
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