From light-harvesting to photoprotection: Structural basis of the dynamic switch of the major antenna complex of plants (LHCII)

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Liguori, Nicoletta ^a   Periole, Xavier ^b   Marrink, Siewert J ^b   Croce, Roberta ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM;

CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; MOLECULAR MODEL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY;

LIGHT; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 84945250616     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep15661     Document Type: Article

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