Electronic spectra of PS I mutants: The peripheral subunits do not bind red chlorophylls in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2711-2715

  Soukoulis, Victor ^a   Savikhin, Sergei ^a   Xu, Wu ^b   Chitnis, Parag R ^b   Struve, Walter S ^a,b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CYANOBACTERIUM; FLUORESCENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM I; STEADY STATE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

SYNECHOCYSTIS;

EID: 0033037684     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(99)77423-0     Document Type: Article

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