Redox effects on the excited-state lifetime in chlorosomes and bacteriachlorophyll c oligomers

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 316-325

  Van Noort, Paula I ^b   Zhu, Yinwen ^a   LoBrutto, Russell ^a   Blankenship, Robert E ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; OLIGOMER;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CHLOROBIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; EXCITATION; FLUORESCENCE; MEMBRANE VESICLE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

CHLOROBACULUM TEPIDUM; CHLOROBIUM;

EID: 0031030756     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(97)78670-3     Document Type: Article

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