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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 4.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Struct Biol. 2015 Apr 4;31:64–74. doi: 10.1016/j.sbi.2015.03.007

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Photosynthetic membrane studied by molecular dynamics simulations. MD simulations provide insight into local and global mechanisms of light harvesting and energy conversion. The photosynthetic membrane pictured consists of three types of protein complexes, light harvesting complex 1 (light blue) and 2 (green) and photosynthetic reaction center (dark blue) as well as quinone molecules (red), which are surrounded by a phospholipid membrane (translucent gray). The full system simulated contains ~23 million million atoms [71]*.