Spectral heterogeneity in single light-harvesting chlorosomes from green sulfur photosynthetic bacterium Chlorobium tepidum

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 433-436

  Saga, Yoshitaka ^a   Wazawa, Tetsuichi ^b   Mizoguchi, Tadashi ^a   Ishii, Yoshiharu ^b   Yanagida, Toshio ^b,c   Tamiaki, Hitoshi ^a,b  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL C; METHYL GROUP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHLOROBIUM; CHLOROBIUM TEPIDUM; CHLOROFLEXUS; CHLOROFLEXUS AURANTIACUS; CHLOROPLAST; CHLOROSOME; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; REFLECTION FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; REFLECTOMETRY; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; CELL ORGANELLE; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROBI; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

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

CHLOROBI; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; ORGANELLES; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0036550969     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2002)075<0433:SHISLH>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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