Dear Group,
Please find two new cool papers by Blankeship on FMO. It turns out it has
8x3 = 24 chromophores, and not 'one shared amongst the three'. This is
useful for Jacob Sanders who is modeling the trimer, and of course of
general interest.
The conference in Q Bio in CUNY was great.
Alán Aspuru-Guzik | Associate Professor
Harvard University | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
12 Oxford Street, Room M113 | Cambridge, MA 02138
(617)-384-8188 |
http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Robert Blankenship <blankenship(a)wustl.edu>
Date: Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: Nomination for Greg Engel (Technology Review 35 Innovators
under 35)
To: Alan Aspuru-Guzik <aspuru(a)chemistry.harvard.edu>
Dear Alan,
Here is a proof of the new FMO paper about the eighth pigment. I also
attach a recent paper that has the homology model of the FMO that suggests
where the baseplate and RC binding take place. We have some other evidence
on the baseplate from H/D exchange mass spec that supports the baseplate
binding prediction.
It was great to finally meet you. I really enjoyed your talk. It gave me
several things to think about. It would be great if you could visit us maybe
this fall. I will work on organizing a seminar visit.
best regards,
Bob