Spectroscopy on the B850 band of individual light-harvesting 2 complexes of Rhodopseudomonas acidophila II. Exciton states of an elliptically deformed ring aggregate

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 1604-1614

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

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA ANALYSIS; ENERGY TRANSFER; IONIC STRENGTH; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RHODOBLASTUS ACIDOPHILUS; SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

PHOTOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOBLASTUS ACIDOPHILUS; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS ACIDOPHILA;

EID: 0035116151     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(01)76133-4     Document Type: Article

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