Triplet State Energy Transfer between the Primary Donor and the Carotenoid in Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26.1 Reaction Centers Exchanged with Modified Bacteriochlorophyll Pigments and Reconstituted with Spheroidene

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 823-831

  Frank, Harry A ^a   Chynwat, Veeradej ^a   Posteraro, Anthony ^a   Hartwich, Gerhard ^b,c   Simonin, Ingrid ^c   Scheer, Hugo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRHENIUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MUS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; CAROTENOID; SPHEROIDENE;

ARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; CAROTENOIDS; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 0030294712     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1996.tb01842.x     Document Type: Article

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