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ReviewPlants (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Excitonic Structure and Primary Charge Separation in Purple Bacterial and Heliobacterial Reaction Centers.

Chenhui Wang, Yin Song

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Review in Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Chenhui WangBeijing Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optoelectronic Sensing Technology and Instruments, School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.
Yin SongBeijing Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optoelectronic Sensing Technology and Instruments, School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8978-2958

Funding

Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China SQ2024YFA1500002National Natural Science Foundation of China 62575024
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Photosynthetic reaction centers (RCs) are highly optimized pigment-protein complexes that drive the primary charge separation essential for solar energy conversion. Despite deep evolutionary divergence, many RCs share a conserved two-branch structural architecture, raising fundamental questions about how physical symmetry, excitonic interactions, and protein environments dictate electron-transfer directionality and efficiency. This review provides a comparative analysis of primary charge separation in two paradigmatic systems-the pseudo-symmetric purple bacterial reaction center (PbRC, Type II) and the homodimeric heliobacterial reaction center (HbRC, Type I). We first examine their structural and excitonic properties and discuss how protein-induced energetic asymmetry in PbRC favors electron transfer along a single active branch, whereas the symmetric HbRC supports charge separation through two equivalent branches, involving an A

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charge separationcoherenceexcited-state dynamicsphotosynthesisreaction centers

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PMID42796869
PMCPMC13610645

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