Spectral trends in the fluorescence of single bacterial light-harvesting complexes: Experiments and modified redfield simulations

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2475-2485

  Rutkauskas, Danielis ^a   Novoderezhkin, Vladimir ^b   Gall, Andrew ^c   Olsen, John ^d   Cogdell, Richard J ^c   Hunter, C Neil ^d   Van Grondelle, Rienk ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENERGY; EXCITATION; FLAME PHOTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PHONON; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOBLASTUS ACIDOPHILUS; RHODOSPIRILLUM; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; SPECTRUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHAEOSPIRILLUM MOLISCHIANUM; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOBLASTUS ACIDOPHILUS; RHODOSPIRILLUM;

EID: 33646190879     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.105.075903     Document Type: Article

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