Alternating syn-anti bacteriochlorophylls form concentric helical nanotubes in chlorosomes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 8525-8530

  Ganapathy, Swapna ^a   Oostergetel, Gert T ^b   Wawrzyniak, Piotr K ^a   Reus, Michael ^c   Chew, Aline Gomez Maqueo ^d,e   Buda, Francesco ^a   Boekema, Egbert J ^b   Bryant, Donald A ^d   Holzwarth, Alfred R ^c   De Groot, Huub J M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ENERGY CONVERSION   (Germany)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cryoEM; Light harvesting; Photosynthesis; Solid state NMR; Supramolecular aggregates

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CHLOROBACULUM TEPIDUM; CHLOROBI; CHLOROSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; CHLOROBI; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTATION; NANOTUBES;

CHLOROBACULUM TEPIDUM; CHLOROBI;

EID: 66649113039     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903534106     Document Type: Article

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