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Purple bacterial light-harvesting complexes: from dreams to structures

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Discoveries in Photosynthesis

Part of the book series: Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration ((AIPH,volume 20))

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This paper describes the main stages involved in the research efforts designed to try and understand the structure and function of purple bacterial antenna complexes. Wherever possible the work has been illustrated by pictures of the major people who carried it out.

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  1. Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Davidson Building, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK

    Richard J. Cogdell & Alastair T. Gardiner

  2. ‘Light and Control’, PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), Osaka, Japan

    Hideki Hashimoto

  3. Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, 3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshku, Osaka, 558-8585, Japan

    Hideki Hashimoto

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  1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA

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  2. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    J. Thomas Beatty

  3. Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

    Howard Gest

  4. Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

    John F. Allen

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Cogdell, R.J., Hashimoto, H., Gardiner, A.T. (2005). Purple bacterial light-harvesting complexes: from dreams to structures. In: Govindjee, Beatty, J.T., Gest, H., Allen, J.F. (eds) Discoveries in Photosynthesis. Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3324-9_39

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