Charge recombination and protein dynamics in bacterial photosynthetic reaction centers entrapped in a sol-gel matrix

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1851-1870

  Kriegl, Jan M ^a   Forster, Florian K ^a   Nienhaus, Gerd Ulrich ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILANE DERIVATIVE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; HYDROGEL; KINETICS; LASER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN IMMOBILIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOBACTER; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0041821411     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74613-X     Document Type: Article

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