Department of Chemistry

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Image from Klaus Schmidt-Rohr. Life (Basel). 2021 Nov 5;11(11):1191.
In the first step of photosynthesis, the absorbed photon energy is used mostly to generate high-energy O2, after "loosening" an electron to be taken up by pheophytin, which produces high-energy P680+..

O2 and Other High-Energy Molecules in Photosynthesis: Why Plants Need Two Photosystems. Klaus Schmidt-Rohr. Life (Basel). 2021 Nov 5;11(11):1191.

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Artificial Intracellular Filaments. Zhaoqianqi Feng, Huaimin Wang, Fengbin Wang, Younghoon Oh, Cristina Berciu, Qiang Cui, Edward H. Egelman, Bing Xu. Cell Reports Physical Science. Volume 1, Issue 7, 22 July 2020, 10008.