Oxygen uncouples light absorption by the chlorosome antenna and photosynthetic electron transfer in the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics

Volumn 1412, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 108-117

  Frigaard, Niels Ulrik ^a   Matsuura, Katsumi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chlorosome; Cytochrome c photooxidation; Excitation energy transfer; Fluorescence quenching; Green bacterium; Reactive oxygen species

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C;

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; CHLOROBIUM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PHOTOOXIDATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SULFUR BACTERIUM;

CHLOROBIUM TEPIDUM; CHLOROFLEXUS AURANTIACUS;

EID: 0032967969     PISSN: 00052728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-2728(99)00060-2     Document Type: Article

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