Crystallization of photosystem I complexes from the thermophilic cyanobacterium, Synechococcus vulcanus

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 96-99

  Satoh, Kazuhiko ^a   Kamiesu, Akihisa ^a   Egashira, Hirokazu ^a   Yano, Yoshinobu ^a   Kashino, Yasuhiro ^a   Koike, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crystallization; Photosystem I complexes; psaI; psaX; Synechococcus vulcanus; Thermophilic cyanobacteria

Indexed keywords

PHOTOSYSTEM I;

SYNECHOCOCCUS VULCANUS;

EID: 0033009708     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029480     Document Type: Article

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