Determination of the amount and the type of quinones present in single crystals from reaction center protein from the photosynthetic bacterium <i>Rhodopseudomonas viridis</i>
FEBS LettersPublished 7 January 1985Open access
Peter Gast, T. J. Michalski, J.E. Hunt, James R. Norris
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Observing the identity and amount of quinone in single crystals from reaction center protein from Rhodopseudomonas viridis shows that about half of the ubiquinone‐9 can be lost during crystallization.
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The identity and amount of quinone in single crystals from reaction center protein from Rhodopseudomonas viridis have been determined using HPLC, optical spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. The ratio menaquinone‐9/ubiquinone‐9 for solutions of reaction center protein of Rps. viridis was 0.93 ± 0.05. After crystallization of the reaction center solution, the quinone ratio was 1.6 ± 0.1. These observations show that about half of the ubiquinone‐9 can be lost during crystallization.
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