Intermediates of reversible photochemistry of phycoerythrocyanin α-subunit from Mastigocladus laminosus probed by low temperature absorption and circular dichroism spectroscopy

International Journal of Photoenergy

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-6

  Zhao, Kai Hong ^a,b   Scheer, Hugo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHROMOPHORES; CIRCULAR DICHROISM SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE;

LOW-TEMPERATURE ABSORPTION; SPECTRAL CHANGE;

DICHROISM;

EID: 53149084102     PISSN: 1110662X     EISSN: 1110662X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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