Pigments and proteins in green bacterial chlorosomes studied by matrix- assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 267, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 450-456

  Persson, Søren ^a   Sönksen, Carsten P ^a   Frigaard, Niels Ulrik ^a   Cox, Raymond P ^a   Roepstorff, Peter ^a   Miller, Mette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bacteriochlorophyll; Chlorosomes; Green bacteria; MALDI MS; Mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL;

ARTICLE; DESORPTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHLOROBI; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ORGANELLES; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROBACULUM TEPIDUM; CHLOROBIUM;

EID: 0033957006     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01019.x     Document Type: Article

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