How to verify experimentally the validity of a polaron model of excitationtrapping in reaction centers of photosynthesis

Citation
Ay. Borisov et Mv. Fok, How to verify experimentally the validity of a polaron model of excitationtrapping in reaction centers of photosynthesis, BIOFIZIKA, 44(6), 1999, pp. 1031-1036
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Biochemistry & Biophysics
Journal title
BIOFIZIKA
ISSN journal
00063029 → ACNP
Volume
44
Issue
6
Year of publication
1999
Pages
1031 - 1036
Database
ISI
SICI code
0006-3029(199911/12)44:6<1031:HTVETV>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
The widely accepted <<classical>> model of reaction center functioning seem s to come into contradiction with some recent data [1]. Therefore we sugges ted to modernize this model by involving a new femtosecond state in the rea ction center special pairs. This state must precede the primary e-transfer reaction due to the reorientation and shift of mobile hydrogen atoms in the electric field of the excited special pair of the reaction center. During the last years, this hypothetical mechanism received support from some expe rimental studies and now it claims to fit all reliable experimental data at least in bacterial photosynthesis. In this article the problem is analyzed how to verify whether the above metioned femtosecond state, with shifted h ydrogens around the reaction center special pair does exist in vivo.