Quenching of bacteriochlorophyll fluorescence in chlorosomes from Chloroflexus aurantiacus by exogenous quinones

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 345-350

  Tokita, Seiji ^a   Frigaard, Niels Ulrik ^a,b   Hirota, Masamitsu ^a   Shimada, Keizo ^a   Matsuura, Katsumi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROBIUMQUINONE; HYDROXYL GROUP; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHLOROBIUM TEPIDUM; CHLOROFLEXUS AURANTIACUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN;

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; CHLOROBI; FLUORESCENCE; QUINONES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROBACULUM TEPIDUM; CHLOROBIUM; CHLOROFLEXUS AURANTIACUS;

EID: 0034286852     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2000)072<0345:QOBFIC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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