“…The effect on the electronic structure caused by mutations can be measured, e.g., by transient absorption in the visible/near infrared regions [5,6,24] or via oxidation-potential changes [24,63,64] resulting in characteristic shifts of gtensor and hyperfine tensor components that are resolved by high-field EPR [43,51,65] and ENDOR [16,[66][67][68], respectively. For example, in the course of X-band ENDOR and TRIPLE (electron-nuclear-nuclear triple resonance) [69] experiments on the R-26.1 mutant and wild-type RCs [1,61,62,70], a pronounced asymmetry of 2:1 of the spin density distribution over the two dimer halves in Pff6+5 was determined, favoring the BChl axially ligated by the L subunit.…”