Rhodobacter capsulatus forms a compact crescent-shaped LH1–RC photocomplex

Autor: Kazutoshi Tani, Ryo Kanno, Xuan-Cheng Ji, Itsusei Satoh, Yuki Kobayashi, Malgorzata Hall, Long-Jiang Yu, Yukihiro Kimura, Akira Mizoguchi, Bruno M. Humbel, Michael T. Madigan, Zheng-Yu Wang-Otomo
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36460-w
Popis: Rhodobacter capsulatus is a favored model organism for studying bacterial photosynthesis. Here the authors present a structure of its light-harvesting–reaction center complex, which reveals that it forms a crescent shape containing only 10 LH1 αβ-subunits.
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