Spectroscopic characterization of quinone-site mutants of the bacterial photosynthetic reaction center

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 93-103

  Laible, Philip D ^a,b   Zhang, Yuenian ^a   Morris, Andrea L ^a   Snyder, Seth W ^a   Ainsworth, Clint ^b   Greenfield, Scott R ^a   Wasielewski, Michael R ^a,c   Parot, Pierre ^d   Schoepp, Barbara ^d   Schiffer, Marianne ^b   Hanson, Deborah K ^b,d   Thurnauer, Marion C ^a,d  

^a Chemistry   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IRFM   (France)

Author keywords

Electron paramagnetic resonance; Electron spin polarization; Electrostatics; Quinone binding; Revertant isolation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS;

EID: 8544219694     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005806700335     Document Type: Article

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