BI110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 39: Photosystem Ii, Plastoquinone, Photosystem I

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Photosystems are composed of an antenna complex and a reaction center. The antenna complex is found on the outer part of the photosystem, made of chlorophyll b and beta-carotene, with the function of capture photons and channels them to the reaction center via inductive resonance. The reaction center is found in the central part of the photosystem, made of chlorophyll a and a primary electron acceptor. The photons are channeled to the chlorophyll a which will have an electron in the excited state; this electron will later be moved to the primary electron acceptor, thus oxidizing the chlorophyll a. Photosystem ii contains the molecule p680, which gets oxidized and reduced to fuel the electron carriers of the light reaction. See fig 7. 10 on p. 145 for a better illustration of the following explanation. At first the photon is channeled to p680 making it excited.

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