Exciton delocalization in the B808-866 antenna of the green bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus as revealed by ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 424-430

  Novoderezhkin, Vladimir ^a   Fetisova, Zoya ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; PIGMENT;

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CHLOROFLEXUS AURANTIACUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0033012623     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(99)76900-6     Document Type: Article

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