plastosemiquinone

noun

Any semiquinone derived from a plastoquinone

Scrabble 30

Meanings

nounplastosemiquinone (plural plastosemiquinones)

plural plastosemiquinones

  1. biochemistryAny semiquinone derived from a plastoquinone
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    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

  1. Englishplasto-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*sēmi
  4. Latinsēmi-
  5. Englishsemi-
  6. Englishquinine
  7. Englishquinic
  8. GermanKeton
  9. Englishketone
  10. Englishquinone
  11. Englishsemiquinone
  12. Englishplastosemiquinone

From plasto- + semiquinone.

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