The native architecture of a photosynthetic membrane

Nature

Volumn 430, Issue 7003, 2004, Pages 1058-1062

  Bahatyrova, Svetlana ^a   Frese, Raoul N ^a,b   Siebert, C Alistair ^c   Olsen, John D ^c   Van Der Werf, Kees O ^a   Van Grondelle, Rlenk ^b   Nlederman, Robert A ^d   Bullough, Per A ^c   Otto, Cees ^a   Hunter, C Neil ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHLOROPHYLL; MACROMOLECULES; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PROTEINS; SEPARATION; SOLAR ENERGY; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

LIGHT HARVESTING; STABLE CHARGE SEPARATION;

PHOTOSYNTHETIC MEMBRANES;

CHLOROPHYLL;

PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHROMATOPHORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SOLAR ENERGY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DIMERIZATION; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 4344704617     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02823     Document Type: Article

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