An overview on chlorophylls and quinones in the photosystem I-type reaction centers

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 305-319

  Ohashi, Shunsuke ^a   Iemura, Tatsuya ^a   Okada, Naoki ^a   Itoh, Shingo ^a   Furukawa, Hayato ^a   Okuda, Masaaki ^a   Ohnishi Kameyama, Mayumi ^b   Ogawa, Takuro ^c   Miyashita, Hideaki ^d   Watanabe, Tadashi ^e   Itoh, Shigeru ^f   Oh oka, Hirozo ^g   Inoue, Kazuhito ^c   Kobayashi, Masami ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^f NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacteriochlorophyll g; Chlorophyll a; Green sulfur bacteria; Heliobacteria; Menaquinone; Photosystem I

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; QUINONE DERIVATIVE;

BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYSTEM I; REVIEW;

BACTERIA; CHLOROPHYLL; DIMERIZATION; PHOTOSYSTEM I PROTEIN COMPLEX; QUINONES;

CHLOROBI; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 77953650722     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11120-010-9530-3     Document Type: Review

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