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Ultrafast energy transfer from rhodopin glucoside in the light harvesting complexes of Rps. acidophila.

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Photosynthesis: Mechanisms and Effects

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The light-harvesting antenna of purple bacteria are ideal complexes in which to study the energy transfer function of carotenoids. Light-harvesting complexes which accumulate a single type of carotenoid can be readily isolated and the carotenoid can be selectively excited in the blue-green spectral region. Furthermore, nature assembles a variety of purple bacteria antenna complexes, with a range of energy transfer efficiencies, by packing bacteriochlorophylls into spectroscopically distinct ring-like structures in close proximity to a range of carotenoids with different conjugation lengths (1).

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  1. Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Umeå, S-901 87, Umeå, Sweden

    Alisdair N. Macpherson, Juan B. Arellano & Tomas Gillbro

  2. Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Davidson Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK

    Juan B. Arellano, Niall J. Fraser & Richard J. Cogdell

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Macpherson, A., Arellano, J.B., Fraser, N.J., Cogdell, R.J., Gillbro, T. (1998). Ultrafast energy transfer from rhodopin glucoside in the light harvesting complexes of Rps. acidophila.. In: Garab, G. (eds) Photosynthesis: Mechanisms and Effects. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3953-3_2

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