Some new structural aspects and old controversies concerning the cytochrome b6f complex of oxygenic photosynthesis

Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 477-508

  Cramer, W A ^a   Soriano, G M ^a   Ponomarev, M ^a   Huang, D ^a   Zhang, H ^a   Martinez, S E ^a   Smith, J L ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloroplast; Cytochrome f; Electron transfer; Energy transducing membrane; Proton translocation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MUS;

EID: 0000724864     PISSN: 10402519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.47.1.477     Document Type: Article

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