Cross-species investigation of the functions of the Rhodobacter PufX polypeptide and the composition of the RC-LH1 core complex

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics

Volumn 1817, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 336-352

  Crouch, Lucy I ^a   Jones, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

LH1 antenna; Light harvesting; Photosynthesis; PufX; Reaction centre; Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PUFX PROTEIN; REACTION CENTER LH1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; RHODOBACTER; RHODOBACTER AZOTOFORMANS; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOBACTER CHANGLENSIS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOBACTER VINAYKUMARII;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PEPTIDES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RHODOBACTER; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 84655163769     PISSN: 00052728     EISSN: 18792650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2011.10.009     Document Type: Article

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