Reaction Centers of Photosynthetic Bacteria Feldafing-II-Meeting
Reaction Centers of Photosynthetic Bacteria is an updated record on the most recent insight into the struc- ture/function relationship of reaction centers from photosynthetic bacteria. It addresses in particular, interactions and dynamics which determine
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M.-E. Michel-Beyerle (Editor)
Reaction Centers of Photosynthetic Bacteria Fe1dafing -II -Meeting
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Professor Dr. MARIA-ELISABETH MICHEL-BEYERLE institut fUr Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie Technische Universitat Miinchen Lichtenbergstraf3e 4 W 8046 Garching, FRG
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Preface
The workshop on "Structure and Function of Bacterial Reaction Centers"
was held from
March 24-26, 1990, to a day five years after the first meeting, at the Hotel "Kaiserin Elisabeth" in Feldafing, Bavaria (F.R.G.). The '85 workshop, on international stage quoted as the "Feldafing-Meeting" (VoI.42, Springer Series in Chemical Physics), had been dominated by the fresh impression of the three-dimensional structure of the reaction center from the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas viridis.
The main emphasis in the follow-up
meetings, 1987 at Cadarache (VoI.l49, NATO AS! Series A: Life Sciences, Plenum Press 1988) and this year's "Feldafing-II", was put on the central issue of reaction center functioll.
The
reaction center is not only a paradigm for one of the most important light-transforming machineries in biology. Due to its detailed structural characterization, it has also become the best-defined
supramolecular electron
donor/acceptor-system
and
offers
unprecedented
opportunities for the study of basic questi