Quinones in chlorosomes of green sulfur bacteria and their role in the redox-dependent fluorescence studied in chlorosome-like bacteriochlorophyll c aggregates

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 167, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 343-349

  Frigaard, Niels Ulrik ^a,c   Takaichi, Shinichi ^b   Hirota, Masamitsu ^a   Shimada, Keizo ^a   Matsuura, Katsumi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bacteriochlorophyll c; Chlorobiumquinone; Chlorosome; Energy transfer; Fluorescence; Isoprenoid quinone; Quenching

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; QUINONE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHLOROBIUM; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030978942     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002030050453     Document Type: Article

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