Plants require sunlight, water, CO 2, and essential nutrients to drive photosynthesis and
fulfill their life cycle. The photosynthetic apparatus resides in chloroplasts and fundamentally …

Plastocyanin is one of the best characterized of the photosynthetic electron transfer proteins.
Since the determination of the structure of poplar plastocyanin in 1978, the structure of algal …

Background: The reduction of plastocyanin by cytochrome f is part of the chain of
photosynthetic electron transfer reactions that links photosystems II and I. The reaction is …

Metallothioneins are small cysteine-rich proteins capable of binding heavy metal ions such
as Zn2+ and Cd2+. They are ubiquitous tissue components in higher organisms, which …

Recent advances in multidimensional NMR methodology have permitted solution structures
of proteins in excess of 250 residues to be solved. In this paper, we discuss several methods …

Raphanus sativus Antifungal Protein 1 (Rs-AFP1) is a 51 amino acid residue plant defensin
isolated from radish (Raphanus sativusL.) seeds. The three-dimensional structure in …

The ability of photosynthetic organisms to use sunlight as a sole source of energy is
endowed by two large membrane complexes—photosystem I (PSI) and photosystem II …

Copper is widely used in nature to promote electron transfer in a variety of processes. The
metal is usually found as a mononuclear type 1 copper site protected by a protein envelope …

Blue copper proteins are type-I copper-containing redox proteins whose role is to shuttle
electrons from an electron donor to an electron acceptor in bacteria and plants. A large …

Recently, we developed a simple analytical model based on local residue packing densities
and the distribution of tertiary contacts for describing the conformational fluctuations of …