Photoprotection in a purple phototrophic bacterium mediated by oxygen-dependent alteration of carotenoid excited-state properties

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 8570-8575

  Šlouf, Václav ^a   Cháber, Pavel ^b   Olsen, John D ^c   Martin, Elizabeth C ^c   Qian, Pu ^c   Hunter, C Neil ^c   Polívka, Tomáš ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Charge transfer state; Photoprotection; Photosynthesis; Purple bacteria

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; SINGLET OXYGEN;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; CAROTENOIDS; CELL MEMBRANE; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXYGEN; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

PHOTOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 84861851909     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201413109     Document Type: Article

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