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Comparative Study
. 1998 Aug;75(2):683-94.
doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(98)77558-7.

Model for the light-harvesting complex I (B875) of Rhodobacter sphaeroides

X Hu  1 , K Schulten
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Comparative Study

Model for the light-harvesting complex I (B875) of Rhodobacter sphaeroides

X Hu et al. Biophys J. 1998 Aug.

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.

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