Photosynthetic bacteria Light-harvesting pigment-protein complexes

Light-Harvesting Pigment-Protein Complexes of Photosynthetic Bacteria... 

Chapter 3 Light-Harvesting Pigment-Protein Complexes of Photosynthetic Bacteria si IV. Structure and Function of the Bacterial Photosynthetic Apparatus... 

Cogdell RJ, Zuber H, Thomber PJ, Drews G, Gingras G, Niederman RA, Parson WW and Feher G. Recommendations for the naming of photochemical reaction centres and light-harvesting pigment-protein complexes from purple photosynthetic bacteria. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1985 806 185-186. 

At the pre-meeting workshop in Zurich on "The Molecular Structure and Function of Light-harvesting Pigment-Protein Complexes and Photosynthetic Reaction Centres" it was decided to try and standardise the nomenclature for the reaction centres and antenna complexes from the purple photosynthetic bacteria. This was seen to be necessary as there has been some confusion in the literature and because it is now necessary to name their constituent polypeptides. The following scheme was proposed and generally accepted. 

Cogdell RJ and Thornber JP (1980) Light-harvesting pigment-protein complexes of purple photosynthetic bacteria, FEBS Lett. 122, 1-8. 

Two experimental systems will be briefly described to illustrate some of the ideas presented in the previous section. The examples span the range of system complexity from a diatomic molecule (I2) [28] to a supramolec-ular pigment-protein complex (the core light-harvesting antenna of photosynthetic bacteria, LH1 [18, 19]). 

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