Triplet excitation transfer between carotenoids in the LH2 complex from photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 83-94

  Feng, Juan ^a   Wang, Qian ^b   Wu, Yi Shi ^a   Ai, Xi Cheng ^a   Zhang, Xu Jia ^b   Huang, You Guo ^b   Zhang, Xing Kang ^a   Zhang, Jian Ping ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

bacteriochlorophyll; carotenoid; LH2 light harvesting antenna complex; time resolved spectroscopy; triplet excitation transfer

Indexed keywords

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

EID: 4544320011     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:PRES.0000040445.71124.96     Document Type: Article

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