Energy transfer in reconstituted peridinin-chlorophyll-protein complexes: Ensemble and single-molecule spectroscopy studies

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3249-3258

  Mackowski, Sebastian ^a   Wörmke, Stephan ^a   Brotosudarmo, Tatas H P ^a   Jung, Christophe ^a   Hiller, Roger G ^b   Scheer, Hugo ^a   Bräuchle, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL A; CHLOROPHYLL B; PERIDININ; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DINOFLAGELLATE; ENERGY TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 36049052096     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.112094     Document Type: Article

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