Spectroscopy of individual light-harvesting 2 complexes of Rhodopseudomonas acidophila: Diagonal disorder, intercomplex heterogeneity, spectral diffusion, and energy transfer in the B800 band

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1570-1577

  Van Oijen, A M ^a   Ketelaars, M ^a   Kohler J ^a,b   Aartsma, T J ^a   Schmidt, J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL A; PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; RHODOBLASTUS ACIDOPHILUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIA; RHODOBLASTUS ACIDOPHILUS; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS ACIDOPHILA;

EID: 0034052967     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(00)76709-9     Document Type: Article

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