Two-photon excited fluorescence from higher electronic states of chlorophylls in photosynthetic antenna complexes: A new approach to detect strong excitonic chlorophyll a/b coupling

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1580-1585

  Leupold, Dieter ^a   Teuchner, Klaus ^a   Ehlert, Jürgen ^a   Irrgang, Klaus Dieter ^b   Renger, Gernot ^b   Lokstein, Heiko ^c  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL A; CHLOROPHYLL B; DIMER; GENE PRODUCT; PIGMENT; PROTEIN; PROTEIN CP47; PROTEIN THCB4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EXCITATION; FLUORESCENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; PHOTON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0036197883     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(02)75509-4     Document Type: Article

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