Dark States in the Light-Harvesting complex 2 Revealed by Two-dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Ferretti, Marco ^a   Hendrikx, Ruud ^a   Romero, Elisabet ^a   Southall, June ^b   Cogdell, Richard J ^b   Novoderezhkin, Vladimir I ^c   Scholes, Gregory D ^d   Van Grondelle, Rienk ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM;

CHEMISTRY; DARKNESS; ENERGY FILTERED TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYMOLOGY; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DARKNESS; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MICROSCOPY, ENERGY-FILTERING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 84957554029     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep20834     Document Type: Article

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