Carotenoids are essential for normal levels of dimerisation of the RC-LH1-PufX core complex of Rhodobacter sphaeroides: Characterisation of R-26 as a crtB (phytoene synthase) mutant

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics

Volumn 1807, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1056-1063

  Ng, Irene W ^a   Adams, Peter G ^a   Mothersole, David J ^a   Vasilev, Cvetelin ^a   Martin, Elizabeth C ^a   Lang, Helen P ^a   Tucker, Jaimey D ^a   Neil Hunter, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Bacterial photosynthesis; Carotenoid; Light harvesting; Membrane protein; Photosynthetic membrane

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; DETERGENT; PHYTOENE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; DIMERIZATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CAROTENOIDS; DIMERIZATION; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MUTATION; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 79959609358     PISSN: 00052728     EISSN: 18792650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2011.05.020     Document Type: Article

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