Model for the light-harvesting complex I (B875) of Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 683-694

  Hu, Xiche ^a   Schulten, Klaus ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHAEOSPIRILLUM MOLISCHIANUM; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOBLASTUS ACIDOPHILUS; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS; RHODOSPIRILLUM; RHODOSPIRILLUM MOLISCHIANUM;

EID: 0031824352     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(98)77558-7     Document Type: Article

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