Exogenous quinones inhibit photosynthetic electron transfer in Chloroflexus aurantiacus by specific quenching of the excited bacteriochlorophyll c antenna

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics

Volumn 1413, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 108-116

  Frigaard, Niels Ulrik ^a,b   Tokita, Seiji ^a   Matsuura, Katsumi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorosome; Cytochrome c photooxidation; Fluorescence quenching; Green bacteria; Light harvesting complex; Non photochemical quenching

Indexed keywords

1,4 NAPHTHOQUINONE DERIVATIVE; 2 (1 HYDROXYETHYL) 3 METHYL 1,4 NAPHTHOQUINONE; 2 ACETYL 3 METHYL 1,4 NAPHTHOQUINONE; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; CYTOCHROME C; JUGLONE; LAWSONE; SHIKONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL SUSPENSION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHLOROBI; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; QUINONES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROBI; CHLOROFLEXUS AURANTIACUS;

EID: 0032706760     PISSN: 00052728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-2728(99)00094-8     Document Type: Article

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