Identification of a novel protonation pattern for carboxylic acids upon Q(B) photoreduction in Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction center mutants at Asp-L213 and Glu-L212 sites.

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In the reaction center from the photosynthetic purple bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides, light energy is rapidly converted to chemical energy through coupled electron-proton transfer to a buried quinone molecule Q(B). Involved in the proton uptake steps are carboxylic acids, which have characteristic infrared vibrations that are observable using light-induced Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) difference...

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