The reaction centre of the photounit of Rhodospirillum rubrum is anchored to the light-harvesting complex with four-fold rotational disorder

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 55, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 363-368

  Stahlberg, Henning ^a,b   Dubochet, Jacques ^a   Vogel, Horst ^b   Ghosh, Robin ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

2D crystals; Image processing; Membrane protein structure; Reaction centre; Rhodospirillum rubrum; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM;

EID: 0031830394     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1005964123955     Document Type: Conference Paper

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