Monomeric RC-LH1 core complexes retard LH2 assembly and intracytoplasmic membrane formation in PufX-minus mutants of Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics

Volumn 1807, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1044-1055

  Adams, Peter G ^a   Mothersole, David J ^a   Ng, Irene W ^a   Olsen, John D ^a   Hunter, C Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Bacterial photosynthesis; Light harvesting; Membrane protein; Protein assembly; PufX

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; GENE EXPRESSION; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUCB BACTERIAL GENE; PUFX BACTERIAL GENE; PUHA BACTERIAL GENE; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOPLASM; DNA PRIMERS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 79959277653     PISSN: 00052728     EISSN: 18792650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2011.05.019     Document Type: Article

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