Pigment-pigment interactions and energy transfer in the antenna complex of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas acidophila

Structure

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 449-462

  Freer, Andy ^a   Prince, Steve ^a   Sauer, Ken ^b   Papiz, Miroslav ^c   Hawthornthwaite Lawless, Anna ^c   McDermott, Gerry ^d   Cogdell, Richard ^a   Isaacs, Neil W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antenna pigment proteins; Bacteriochlorophyll; Energy transfer; LH2; Membrane proteins; Photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOBLASTUS ACIDOPHILUS; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

B800 850 LIGHT HARVESTING COMPLEX, BACTERIA; B800-850 LIGHT-HARVESTING COMPLEX, BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; CAROTENOID;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; CAROTENOIDS; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0030584679     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0969-2126(96)00050-0     Document Type: Article

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