Femtosecond spectroscopy of native and carotenoidless purple-bacterial LH2 clarifies functions of carotenoids

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4808-4811

  Theiss, Christoph ^a   Leupold, Dieter ^b   Moskalenko, Andrei A ^c   Razjivin, Andrei P ^d   Eichler, Hans J ^a   Lokstein, Heiko ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF BASIC BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; LIGHT; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEOBACTERIA; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; SPECTROSCOPY;

CAROTENOIDS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; KINETICS; LIGHT; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEOBACTERIA; RADIATION DOSAGE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 45849134154     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.121681     Document Type: Article

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