Ultrafast Transient Absorption Studies on Photosystem I Reaction Centers from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. 1. A New Interpretation of the Energy Trapping and Early Electron Transfer Steps in Photosystem I

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3899-3922

  Mülle, Marc G ^a   Niklas, Jens ^a   Lubitz, Wolfgang ^a   Holzwarth, Alfred R ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ENERGY CONVERSION   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADICAL;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; PHOTOSYSTEM I; REACTION ANALYSIS; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 18544404159     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(03)74804-8     Document Type: Article

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