Pump-probe anisotropies of Fenna-Matthews-Olson protein trimers from Chlorobium tepidum: A diagnostic for exciton localization?

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 2090-2096

  Savikhin, Sergei ^a   Buck, Daniel R ^a   Struve, Walter S ^a,b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHLOROBIUM; ENERGY TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROBACULUM TEPIDUM; CHLOROBIUM; TRIXIS;

EID: 0030830134     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(97)78239-0     Document Type: Article

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