New insights into the structure of the reaction centre from Blastochloris viridis: Evolution in the laboratory

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 442, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 27-37

  Roszak, Aleksander W ^a   Moulisová, Vladimíra ^a   Reksodipuro, Adhie D P ^a   Gardiner, Alastair T ^a   Fujii, Ritsuko ^b,c   Hashimoto, Hideki ^b,c   Isaacs, Neil W ^a   Cogdell, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blastochloris viridis; Evolution; Genetic drift; Integral membrane pigment protein complex; Photosynthetic reaction centre; Purple photosynthetic bacteria; Reaction centre carotenoid; Reaction centre polypeptide sequence

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; CYTOCHROME C; GLYCINE; LEUCINE; PIGMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLASTOCHLORIS VIRIDIS; CONFORMATION; COVALENT BOND; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CAROTENOIDS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GENETIC DRIFT; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; POINT MUTATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BLASTOCHLORIS VIRIDIS; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84856264711     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: 14708728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20111540     Document Type: Article

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