Comparison of the structural requirements for bacteriochlorophyll binding in the core light-harvesting complexes of Rhodospirillum rubrum and Rhodobacter sphaeroides using reconstitution methodology with bacteriochlorophyll analogs

Biochemistry

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 3072-3084

  Davis, Christine M ^a   Parkes Loach, Pamela S ^a   Cook, Christopher K ^a   Meadows, Kelley A ^a   Bandilla, Michael ^b   Scheer, Hugo ^b   Loach, Paul A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RHODOBACTER; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; BINDING SITES; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0029866405     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi951777l     Document Type: Review

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