Effect of alkaline treatment on bacteriochlorophyll a, quinones and energy transfer in chlorosomes from Chlorobium tepidum and Chlorobium phaeobacteroides

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 322-328

  Van Walree, Cornelis A ^c   Sakuragi, Yumiko ^a,b   Steensgaard, Dorte B ^c   Bösinger, Carola S ^c   Frigaard, Niels Ulrik ^a,b   Cox, Raymond P ^a   Holzwart, Alfred R ^c   Miller, Mette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROBACULUM TEPIDUM; CHLOROBI; CHLOROBIUM PHAEOBACTEROIDES;

EID: 0001451488     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(1999)069<0322:EOATOB>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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