Rhodobacter capsulatus forms a compact crescent-shaped LH1–RC photocomplex
oleh: 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
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2023-02-01 |
Deskripsi
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.