Calcium ions are required for the enhanced thermal stability of the light-harvesting-reaction center core complex from thermophilic purple sulfur bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum.
Kimura Y, Yu LJ, Hirano Y, Suzuki H, Wang ZY.
Kimura Y, et al.
J Biol Chem. 2009 Jan 2;284(1):93-99. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M806840200. Epub 2008 Oct 31.
J Biol Chem. 2009.
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A previous study showed that the light-harvesting-reaction center core complex (LH1-RC) purified from this bacterium is highly stable at room temperature (Suzuki, H., Hirano, Y., Kimura, Y., Takaichi, S., Kobayashi, M., Miki, K., and Wang, Z.-Y. (2007) …
A previous study showed that the light-harvesting-reaction center core complex (LH1-RC) purified from this bacterium is highly stable at roo …