Highly ordered two-dimensional crystals of photosystem I reaction center from Synechococcus sp.: Functional and structural analyses

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 262, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 336-348

  Karrasch, Simone ^a   Typke, Dieter ^b   Walz, Thomas ^a   Miller, Mette ^c   Tsiotis, Georgios ^a   Engel, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Electron crystallography; Photosystem I reaction center; Two dimensional crystals

Indexed keywords

SYNECHOCOCCUS SP.; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP. PCC 6301;

LIPID;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FREEZING; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SOLUBILITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYANOBACTERIA; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FREEZING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIPID BILAYERS; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPIDS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 0030603918     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0517     Document Type: Article

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