Chlorophyll aggregates

Structural studies related to photosynthesis a model for chlorophyll aggregates in photosynthetic organisms. C. E. Strouse, Prog. Inorg. Chem., 1976, 21,159-177 (31). 

AA Krasnovsky and Mi Bystrova (1980) Self-assembly of chlorophyll aggregated structures. BioSystems 12 181-194... 

A Model for Chlorophyll Aggregates in Photosynthetic Organisms.. Suggett, A., see Brown, S. B. 

Calvin and co-workers (Calvin, 1954 Barltrop et al., 1954) speculated that lipoic acid plays a key role in photosynthesis as a compound involved in the primary conversion into chemical energy of the light quanta absorbed by chlorophyll. They visualized a transfer of electrons from the chlorophyll aggregate to lipoic acid to produce dihydrolipoic acid, Avhich in turn reduced DPN or TPN (Bassham and Calvin, 1956). Although Calvin s hypothesis is attractive and has stimulated research in this field, there is as yet no unequivocal evidence to support it. Moreover, the finding of Arnon et al. (1959) that photoreduction of TPN accompanied by oxygen evolution and phosphorylation in a chloroplast system is not inhibited by 2 X 10 M arsenite appears to render unlikely the participation of lipoic acid, at least in its dithiol form, in the light reactions of photosynthesis. 

Katz JJ, Bowman MK, Michalski TJ, Worcester DL (1991) In Scheer H (ed) Chlorophyll Aggregation Chlorophyll/ Water Micelles as Models for in vivo Long-Wavelength Chlorophyll in Chlorophylls. CRC Press, Boca Raton,... 

Clarke and co-workers extended the triplet state double resonance spectroscopy also to chlorophyll aggregate systems in using the... 

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