A seventh bacterial chlorophyll driving a large light-harvesting antenna

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Harada, Jiro ^a   Mizoguchi, Tadashi ^b   Tsukatani, Yusuke ^b   Noguchi, Masato ^a   Tamiaki, Hitoshi ^b  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PHYCOBILIPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROBI; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; CHLOROBI; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENES, BACTERIAL; METHYLTRANSFERASES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYCOBILIPROTEINS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

EID: 84867019403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00671     Document Type: Article

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