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Like chlorophyll, bacterial biomass was also shown to be uniformly distributed horizontally throughout large areas of the Levantine Basin with the exception of mesoscale features where the pattern was usually altered. 

In the bacterial reaction center the photons are absorbed by the special pair of chlorophyll molecules on the periplasmic side of the membrane (see Figure 12.14). Spectroscopic measurements have shown that when a photon is absorbed by the special pair of chlorophylls, an electron is moved from the special pair to one of the pheophytin molecules. The close association and the parallel orientation of the chlorophyll ring systems in the special pair facilitates the excitation of an electron so that it is easily released. This process is very fast it occurs within 2 picoseconds. From the pheophytin the electron moves to a molecule of quinone, Qa, in a slower process that takes about 200 picoseconds. The electron then passes through the protein, to the second quinone molecule, Qb. This is a comparatively slow process, taking about 100 microseconds. 

Figure 12.22 Schematic diagram showing the flow of excitation energy in the bacterial photosynthetic apparatus. The energy of a photon absorbed by LH2 spreads rapidly through the periplasmic ring of bacterio-chlorophyll molecules (green). Where two complexes touch in the membrane, the energy can be transmitted to an adjacent LH2 ring. From there it passes by the same mechanism to LHl and is finally transmitted to the special chlorophyll pair in the reaction center. (Adapted from W. Kiihlbrandf, Structure 3 521-525, 1995.)...

Measured end points are photosynthesis as the incorporation of radiolabelled H C03 ( C) and bacterial activity as the incorporation of radiolabelled thymidine (thym) fluorometric measurements basal fluorescence (Fo) and photon yield (Y) chlorophyll-a concentration (chl-a) species composition (spp) and the biovolume of algae obtained after algal counting (biovolume)... 

Nonomnra, Y. et al.. Spectroscopic properties of chlorophylls and their derivatives inflnence of molecnlar stmctnre on the electronic state, Chem. Phys., 220, 155, 1997. Blairkenship, R.E., Identification of key step in the biosynthetic pathway of hacteri-ochlorophyU c and its implications for other known and nirknown green sulfur bacteria, J. Bacterial., 186, 5187, 2004. 

Ferruzzi, M.G. et al.. Antioxidant and antimutagenic activity of dietary chlorophyll derivatives determined by radical scavenging and bacterial reverse mutagenesis assays, J. Food ScL, 67, 2589, 2002. 

The automated EXAMS model consists of a set of FORTRAN programs which calculates the fate, exposure and dissipation of the chemical from input environmental data such as 1) Global parameters (rainfall, irradiance, latitude), 2) Biological parameters (biomass, bacterial counts, chlorophyll), 3) Depths and in-lows, 4) Sediment characteristics, 5) Wind, 6) Evaporation, 7) Aeration, 8) Advective and turbulent interconnections, 9) Water flow, 10) Sediment flow, 11) pH and pOH, and 12) Temperature. Also characteristics of the chemical are taken into account such as hydrolysis photolysis, oxidation, biolysis, and volatility. 

For convenience of discussion, a schematic diagram of bacterial photosynthetic RC is shown in Fig. 1 [29]. Conventionally, P is used to represent the special pair, which consists of two bacterial chlorophylls separated by 3 A, and B and H are used to denote the bacteriochlorophyll and bacteriopheophytin, respectively. The RC is embedded in a protein environment that comprise L and M branches. The initial electron transfer (ET) usually occurs from P to Hl along the L branch in 1—4 picoseconds (ps) and exhibits the inverse temperature dependence that is, the lower the temperature, the faster the ET. It should be noted that the distance between P and Hl is about 15 A [53-55]. 

The three-dimensional structures of the reaction centers of purple bacteria (Rhodopseudomonas viridis and Rhodobacter sphaeroides), deduced from x-ray crystallography, shed light on how phototransduction takes place in a pheophytin-quinone reaction center. The R. viridis reaction center (Fig. 19-48a) is a large protein complex containing four polypeptide subunits and 13 cofactors two pairs of bacterial chlorophylls, a pair of pheophytins, two quinones, a nonheme iron, and four hemes in the associated c-type cytochrome. 

The structure of the core antenna of Photosystem I (PSI) stands in striking contrast to the bacterial system. The 96 non-equivalent chlorophyll (Chi) molecules are very densely... 

The photooxidation of chlorophyll indicated in Eq. 23-31 is accompanied by bleaching in the principal light absorption band. However, since there is so much light-gathering chlorophyll for each reaction center, the effect is small. The study of the process has been aided greatly by preparation of isolated bacterial photochemical reaction centers. 

In green and purple photosynthetic bacteria, most of the bulk bacterial chlorophyll is inactive in photochemistry and does not undergo photooxidation when excited. Energy is transferred randomly between adjacent pigment molecules until trapped by the RC or lost as fluorescence... 

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