Aggregation of Light-Harvesting Complex II leads to formation of efficient excitation energy traps in monomeric and trimeric complexes

FEBS Letters

Volumn 581, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 3528-3532

  van Oort, Bart ^a   van Hoek, Arie ^a   Ruban, Alexander V ^b   van Amerongen, Herbert ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

LHCII; Non photochemical quenching; Photosystem II; Picosecond fluorescence; Time correlated single photon counting

Indexed keywords

MONOMER;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; ENERGY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; PHOTOCHEMICAL QUENCHING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEIN BINDING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPINACIA OLERACEA;

EID: 34447271037     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.06.070     Document Type: Article

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