Bioenergetics and Biological Electron Transport

Bioelectrochemistry: Fundamentals, Experimental Techniques and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-37

  Bartlett, Philip N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioenergetics and biological electron transport; Biological cells eukaryotic and prokaryotic; Chemiosmosis; Energetics redox potentials; Flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD); Franck Condon principle; Iron sulfur clusters; NADH CoQ reductase complex

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889620993     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470753842.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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