Meanings
plural plastosemiquinones
- biochemistryAny semiquinone derived from a plastoquinone
1 more example
Also, DFT calculations on the plastosemiquinone anion radical in PSII found the histidine N δ to be the stronger of the two H-bond donors. 47 Therefore, the previous assignments of the hydrogen bond proton couplings for SQ A in PSII are not unambiguous. 46 From a comparative analysis of available nqi data for several semiquinone species and for copper complexes, 17 we find that the protonated imidazole nitrogens of these systems share similar valence orbital occupancies.
2014 July 15, Patrick J. O’Malley, Colin A. Wraight, Sergei A. Dikanov, “Hyperfine and Nuclear Quadrupole Tensors of Nitrogen Donors in the QA Site of Bacterial Reaction Centers: Correlation of the Histidine Nδ Tensors with Hydrogen Bond Strength”, in The Journal of Physical Chemistry. B, volume 118, →DOI
Origin
- Englishplasto-
- Proto-Indo-European*sem-
- Proto-Indo-European*sēmi
- Latinsēmi-
- Englishsemi-
- Englishquinine
- Englishquinic
- GermanKeton
- Englishketone
- Englishquinone
- Englishsemiquinone
- Englishplastosemiquinone
From plasto- + semiquinone.
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