Overall energy conversion efficiency of a photosynthetic vesicle

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Volumn 5, Issue AUGUST, 2016, Pages

  Sener, Melih ^a,b   Strumpfer, Johan ^a,c   Singharoy, Abhishek ^a   Hunter, C Neil ^d   Schulten, Klaus ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTON; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; UBIQUINOL CYTOCHROME C REDUCTASE; HYDROQUINONE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BACTERIAL CHROMATOPHORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENZYME METABOLISM; ILLUMINATION; KINETICS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT ADAPTATION; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; LIGHT INTENSITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOCHEMICAL EFFICIENCY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; QUANTUM YIELD; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SIMULATION; SPECTROSCOPY; STOICHIOMETRY; SUNLIGHT; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENERGY METABOLISM; LIGHT; METABOLISM; RADIATION RESPONSE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL CHROMATOPHORES; ENERGY METABOLISM; HYDROQUINONES; LIGHT; QUINONES; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 84985986954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.09541     Document Type: Article

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