Are the light-harvesting I complexes from Rhodospirillum rubrum arranged around the reaction centre in a square geometry?

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 282, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 819-831

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Image processing; Light harvesting I complex; Reaction centre; Rhodospirillum rubrum; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM;

EID: 0032475911     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1975     Document Type: Article

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