The Organization of Photosynthetic Enzymes on the Chloroplast Membrane

Photoinduced Self-Organization in “Semiconductor World”: Part I. from Protophotosynthesis to Protomembranes

“…Accordingly, the active membrane model should include sources and sinks, as well as mechanisms for accumulating charge (capacitor-containing circuit). In addition, due to membrane localization of the catalysis, which involves the use of functionally different enzymes in chloroplasts or in the whole cells of photosynthetic organisms [659][660][661][662][663], it is necessary to ensure that the design of the active surface simulating the membrane is compatible with the requirements for the implementation of the catalytic act corresponding to the same act of its living prototype (in the case of artificial photosynthesis it should be photocatalysis). Therefore, in the definitions of "active surfaces" and "active interfaces" we can choose precisely those descriptors and criteria that favor their functional activation in a form that supports the physiological and biophysical progress of photosynthesis (coupled membrane functions) and accompanying biocatalysis or biophotocatalysis (which, despite the differences in methods, is almost synonymous [664][665][666][667], although not all forms of biophotocatalysis / photobiocatalysis can occur in native biological systems and become the products of biological evolution).…”