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Reviews on structure and function of light­harvesting complex II of purple bacteria

  1. Antson, A.A., Dodson, E.J. and Dodson, G.G. (1996) Circular assemblies. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 6, 142-150.
  2. Blankenship, R.E. (1996) Photosynthetic antennas and reaction centers: Current understanding and prospects for improvement. In Nozik, A.J., Ed. Research Opportunities in Photochemical Sciences. Also published online at http://photoscience.la.asu.edu/photosyn/education/antenna.html.
  3. Brunisholz, R.A. and Zuber, H. (1992) Structure, function and organization of antenna polypeptides and antenna complexes from the three families of Rhodospirillaneae. J. Photochem. Photobiol. B15, 113-140.
  4. Cogdell, R.J. and Hawthornthwaite, A.M. (1993) Preparation, purification, and crystallization of purple bacteria antenna complexes. In Deisenhofer, J. and Norris, J.R., Eds. The Photosynthetic Reaction Center, vol. I. Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 23-42.
  5. Cogdell, R.J., Isaacs, N.W., Freer, A.A., Arrelano, J., Howard, T.D., Papiz, M.Z., Hawthornthwaite­Lawless, A.M. and Prince, S. (1997) The structure and function of the LH2 (B800-850) complex from the purple photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas acidophila strain 10050. Prog. Biophys. Mol. Biol. 68, 1-27.
  6. Drews, G., Peters, J. and Dierstein, R. (1983) Molecular­organization and biosynthesis of pigment-protein complexes of Rhodopseudomonas capsulata. Ann. Microbiol. (Paris) 134B, 151-158.
  7. Fyfe, P.K. and Cogdell, R.J. (1996) Purple bacterial antenna complexes. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 6, 467-472.
  8. Hu, X., Ritz, T., Damjanovic, A. and Schulten, K. (1997) Pigment organization and transfer of electronic excitation in the photosynthetic unit of purple bacteria. J. Phys. Chem. B101, 3854-3871.
  9. Hu, X., Damjanovic, A., Ritz, T. and Schulten, K. (1998) Architecture and mechanism of the light­harvesting apparatus of purple bacteria. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 5935-5941.
  10. Hunter, C.N. (1995) Light­harvesting complex. Rings of light. Curr. Biol. 5, 826-828.
  11. Hunter, C.N., van Grondelle, R. and Olsen, J.D. (1989) Photosynthetic antenna proteins: 100 ps before photochemistry starts. Trends Biochem. Sci. 14, 72-76.
  12. Hunter, C.N., Fowler, G.J.S., Grief, G.G., Olsen, J.D. and Jones, M.R. (1993) Protein engineering of bacterial light­harvesting complexes. Biochem. Soc. Trans. 21, 41-43.
  13. Isaacs, N.W., Cogdell, R.J., Freer, A.A. and Prince, S.M. (1995) Light­harvesting mechanisms in purple photosynthetic bacteria. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 5, 794-797.
  14. Kühlbrandt, W. (1995) Structure and function of bacterial light­harvesting complexes. Structure 3, 521-525.
  15. Ostermeier, C. and Michel, H. (1997) Crystallization of membrane proteins. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 7, 697-701.
  16. Pullerits, T. and Sundström, V. (1996) Photosynthetic light­harvesting pigment-protein complexes: Toward understanding how and why. Acc. Chem. Res. 29, 381-389.
  17. Sundström, V., Pullerits, T. and van Grondelle, R. (1999) Photosynthetic light­harvesting: Reconciling dynamics and structure of purple bacterial LH2 reveals function of photosynthetic unit. J. Phys. Chem. B103, 2327-2346.
  18. van Grondelle, R., Dekker, J.P., Gillbro, T. and Sundström, V. (1994) Energy transfer and trapping in photosynthesis. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1187, 1-65.
  19. Zuber, H. (1993) Structural features of photosynthetic light­harvesting systems. In Deisenhofer, J. and Norris, J.R., Eds. The Photosynthetic Reaction Center, vol. I. Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 43-100.
  20. Zuber, H., Brunisholz, R. and Sidler, W. (1987) Structure and function of light­harvesting pigment­protein complexes. In Amesz, J., Ed. Photosynthesis. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 233-271.
Bibliography on structural studies of light­harvesting complex II of purple bacteria