Single-molecule spectroscopy reveals that individual low-light LH2 complexes from Rhodopseudomonas palustris 2.1.6. Have a heterogeneous polypeptide composition

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1491-1500

  Brotosudarmo, Tatas H P ^a   Kunz, Ralf ^b   Böhm, Paul ^b   Gardiner, Alastair T ^a   Moulisová, Vladimíra ^a   Cogdell, Richard J ^a   Köhler, Jürgen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS; SPECTROSCOPY;

PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS;

ABSORPTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; LIGHT; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; LIGHTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 70349583047     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.06.034     Document Type: Article

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