Structural and spectroscopic properties of a reaction center complex from the chlorosome-lacking filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium Roseiflexus castenholzii

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1702-1709

  Yamada, Mitsunori ^a,c   Zhang, Hui ^b   Hanada, Satoshi ^b   Nagashima, Kenji V P ^a   Shimada, Keizo ^a   Matsuura, Katsumi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Institute for Biological Resources and Functions   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; BACTERIOPHEOPHYTIN; CYTOCHROME; HEME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHLOROFLEXUS; CHLOROFLEXUS AURANTIACUS; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHOTOOXIDATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; PUFA GENE; PUFB GENE; PUFC GENE; PUFL GENE; PUFM GENE; ROSEIFLEXUS CASTENHOLZII; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROFLEXI; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

EID: 14244263216     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.5.1702-1709.2005     Document Type: Article

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