Fluorescence and absorption spectroscopy of the weakly fluorescent chlorophyll a in cytochrome b6f of Synechocystis PCC6803

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 389-398

  Peterman, Erwin J G ^a,d   Wenk, Stephan Olav ^b   Pullerits, Tõnu ^c   Pålsson, Lars Olof ^a   Van Grondelle, Rienk ^a   Dekker, Jan P ^a   Rögner, Matthias ^b   Van Amerongen, Herbert ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A; CYTOCHROME B;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; FLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

SYNECHOCYSTIS;

EID: 0031863230     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(98)77523-X     Document Type: Article

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