Photosynthetic electrogenic events in native membranes of Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Flash-induced charge displacements in the acceptor quinone complex of the photosynthetic reaction center

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 75-82

  Mulkidjanian, Armen Y ^a,b   Hochkoeppler, Alejandro ^c   Zannoni, Davide ^c   Drachev, Lei A ^b   Melandri, Bruno Andrea ^c   Venturoli, Giovanni ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electrometry; Electron transfer; Membrane; Menaquinone; Photosynthesis; Potential; Proton transfer; Rhodobacter sphaeroides; Rhodopseudomonas viridis

Indexed keywords

CHLOROFLEXUS AURANTIACUS;

EID: 0031872663     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005962401859     Document Type: Article

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