Construction of photosynthetic antenna complex using light-harvesting polypeptide-alpha from photosynthetic bacteria, R. rubrum with zinc substituted bacteriochlorophyll alpha

Nagata M; Nango M; Kashiwada A; Yamada S; Ito S; Sawa N; Ogawa M; Iida K; Kurono Y; Ohtsuka T

Chemistry Letters, Vol.32, No.3, 216-217, 2003

DOI10.1246/cl.2003.216 Export Citation

Construction of photosynthetic antenna complex using light-harvesting polypeptide-alpha from photosynthetic bacteria, R. rubrum with zinc substituted bacteriochlorophyll alpha

Nagata M, Nango M, Kashiwada A, Yamada S, Ito S, Sawa N, Ogawa M, Iida K, Kurono Y, Ohtsuka T

The light-harvesting (LH)-alpha polypeptide isolated from R. rubrum only organized zinc bacteriochlorophyll a (Zn-BChl a) complex in n-octyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside (OG) micelle, analogous to the LH1-type complex of photosynthetic bacteria.