Exploiting the photoactivity of bacterial reaction center to investigate liposome dynamics.

Emiliano AltamuraFrancesco MilanoPasquale StanoFabio Mavelli

Published in: Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology (2021)

Charge recombination kinetics of bacterial photosynthetic protein Reaction Center displays an exquisite sensitivity to the actual occupancy of ubiquinone-10 in its QB-binding site. Here, we have exploited such phenomenon for assessing the growth and the aggregation/fusion of phosphocholine vesicles embedding RC in their membrane, when treated with sodium oleate.

Keyphrases

dna damage
dna repair
electron transfer
protein protein
binding protein
newly diagnosed
solar cells
aqueous solution