Energy transfer in photosystem I of cyanobacteria Synechococcus elongatus: Model study with structure-based semi-empirical Hamiltonian and experimental spectral density

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 140-158

  Yang, Mino ^a,b   Damjanović, Ana ^a,c   Vaswani, Harsha M ^a   Fleming, Graham R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Chungbuk National University   (South Korea)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM I; REACTION ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETRY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

CYANOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS;

EID: 0038538307     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74461-0     Document Type: Article

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