Tribute in Memory of Jacques Breton (1942-2018)

Overview

Journal Photosynth Res

Publisher Springer

Date 2019 Feb 4

PMID 30712213

Authors

Paul Mathis

Eliane Nabedryk

Andre Vermeglio

Affiliations

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Abstract

Jacques Breton spent his 39 years of professional life at Saclay, a center of the French Atomic Energy Commission. He studied photosynthesis with various advanced biophysical tools, often developed by himself and his numerous coworkers, obtaining a large number of new information on the structure and the functioning of antenna and of reaction centers of plants and bacteria: excitation migration in the antenna, orientation of molecules, rate of primary reactions, binding of pigments and electron transfer cofactors. Although it is much too short to illustrate his impressive work, we hope that this contribution will help maintaining the souvenir of Jacques Breton as an active and enthusiastic person, full of qualities, devoted to research and to his family as well. We include personal comments from N. E. Geacintov, A. Dobek, W. Leibl, M. Vos and W. W. Parson.

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Breton J, Boullais C, Berger G, Mioskowski C, Nabedryk E . Binding sites of quinones in photosynthetic bacterial reaction centers investigated by light-induced FTIR difference spectroscopy: symmetry of the carbonyl interactions and close equivalence of the QB vibrations in Rhodobacter sphaeroides and.... Biochemistry. 1995; 34(36):11606-16. DOI: 10.1021/bi00036a037. View

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Paillotin G, Vermeglio A, Breton J . Orientation of reaction center and antenna chromophores in the photosynthetic membrane of Rhodopseudomonas viridis. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1979; 545(2):249-64. DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(79)90204-4. View

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Breton J, Burie J, Berthomieu C, Berger G, Nabedryk E . The binding sites of quinones in photosynthetic bacterial reaction centers investigated by light-induced FTIR difference spectroscopy: assignment of the QA vibrations in Rhodobacter sphaeroides using 18O- or 13C-labeled ubiquinone and vitamin K1. Biochemistry. 1994; 33(16):4953-65. DOI: 10.1021/bi00182a026. View

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Breton J, Paillotin G . Dichroism of transient absorbance changes in the red spectral region using oriented chloroplasts. I. Field indicating absorbance changes. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1977; 459(1):58-65. DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(77)90008-1. View

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Breton J . Dichroism of transient absorbance changes in the red spectral region using oriented chloroplasts. II. P-700 absorbance changes. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1977; 459(1):66-75. DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(77)90009-3. View

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Gagliano A, Geacintov N, Breton J . Orientation and linear dichroism of chloroplasts and sub-chloroplast fragments oriented in an electric field. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1977; 461(3):460-74. DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(77)90233-x. View

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Becker J, Breton J, Geacintov N, Trentacosti F . Anisotropy of photosynthetic membranes and the degree of fluorescence polarization. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1976; 440(3):531-44. DOI: 10.1016/0005-2728(76)90040-2. View