Characteristics of the photosynthetic apparatus of the purple bacterium Thiocapsa sp. BM3 containing okenone as a major carotenoid

Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 158-164

  Sidorova, T N ^a   Makhneva, Z K ^a   Puchkova, N N ^b   Gorlenko, V M ^b   Erokhin, Yu E ^a   Moskalenko, A A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BASIC BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Carotenoids; Light harvesting complex; Okenone; Photosynthesis; Purple sulfur bacterium; Reaction center

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344562315     PISSN: 00262617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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