Purple bacterial light-harvesting complexes: From dreams to structures

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 80, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 173-179

  Cogdell, Richard J ^a   Hashimoto, Hideki ^b,c   Gardiner, Alastair T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

bacteriochlorophyll; Brunisholz; Clayton; Cogdell; crystallography; Drews; Fleming; Ghosh; Gillbro; Hunter; Isaacs; light harvesting complexes; Loach; Michel; Niederman; photosynthetic bacteria; Robert; Sauer; Scheer; Schulten; Sundstrom; Thornber; van Grondelle; Zuber

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HYMENOPHYSA CURTA; PHOTOBACTERIA;

EID: 3042803518     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:PRES.0000030452.60890.f1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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