SANS investigation of the photosynthetic machinery of Chloroflexus aurantiacus

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2398-2407

  Tang, Kuo Hsiang ^a,b   Urban, Volker S ^c   Wen, Jianzhong ^a,b   Xin, Yueyong ^a,b,d   Blankenship, Robert E ^a,b  

^a Department of Biology ^*  (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROFLEXUS; CHLOROFLEXUS AURANTIACUS; PHOTOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 78049338676     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.07.068     Document Type: Article

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