Computational determination of the pigment binding motif in the chlorosome protein a of green sulfur bacteria

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 231-247

  Kovács, Sándor Á ^a   Bricker, William P ^a   Niedzwiedzki, Dariusz M ^b   Colletti, Peter F ^a   Lo, Cynthia S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteriochlorophyll a; Baseplate; Chlorosome; CsmA; Docking; Excited states; Protein ligand interactions; Quantum chemistry; Structure prediction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL A; CSMA PROTEIN, CHLOROBIUM TEPIDUM; PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CELL ORGANELLE; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROBIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL A; CHLOROBIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; ORGANELLES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

EID: 84892731712     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11120-013-9920-4     Document Type: Article

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