The peripheral light-harvesting complexes from purple sulfur bacteria have different 'ring' sizes

FEBS Letters

Volumn 582, Issue 25-26, 2008, Pages 3650-3656

  Kereïche, Sami ^a   Bourinet, Laurent ^b   Keegstra, Wilko ^a   Arteni, Ana A ^a   Verbavatz, Jean Marc ^b   Boekema, Egbert J ^a   Robert, Bruno ^b   Gall, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b DIF   (France)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Membrane protein; Photosynthesis; Single molecule analysis

Indexed keywords

APOPROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ALLOCHROMATIUM VINOSUM; ARTICLE; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SULFUR BACTERIUM;

CHROMATIACEAE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DIMERIZATION; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PARTICLE SIZE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ALLOCHROMATIUM VINOSUM; CHROMATIACEAE; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 53949090556     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.09.050     Document Type: Article

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