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X Hu1, K Schulten.
Abstract
The light-harvesting complex I (LH-I) of Rhodobacter sphaeroides has been modeled computationally as a hexadecamer of alphabeta-heterodimers, based on a close homology of the heterodimer to that of light-harvesting complex II (LH-II) of Rhodospirillum molischianum. The resulting LH-I structure yields an electron density projection map that is in agreement with an 8.5-A resolution electron microscopic projection map for the highly homologous LH-I of Rs. rubrum. A complex of the modeled LH-I with the photosynthetic reaction center of the same species has been obtained by a constrained conformational search. This complex and the available structures of LH-II from Rs. molischianum and Rhodopseudomonas acidophila furnish a complete model of the pigment organization in the photosynthetic membrane of purple bacteria.Entities:
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Year: 1998 PMID: 9675170 PMCID: PMC1299743 DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(98)77558-7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biophys J ISSN: 0006-3495 Impact factor: 4.033