Article
Enhanced rates of subpicosecond energy transfer in blue-shifted light harvesting LH2 mutants of Rhodobacter sphaeroides.
Biochemistry - 12 Jul 1994
Hess S, Visscher K J, Pullerits T, Sundström V, Fowler G J, Hunter C N
Abstract excerpt
Energy transfer within various LH2 antenna complexes of the photosynthetic purple bacteria Rhodobacter sphaeroides and Rhodopseudomonas acidophila has been studied at 77 K using tunable femtosecond and subpicosecond infrared pulses. The complexes examined include the wild-type B800-850 as well as...
Topics
- Circular Dichroism
- Energy Transfer
- Fluorescence Polarization
- Kinetics
- Light
- Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Mutation
- Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins
- Rhodobacter sphaeroides
- Spectrophotometry
- Structure-Activity Relationship
