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Soichiro Seki1,2, Tomoko Miyata3,4, Naoko Norioka2

  • 1Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, 3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka 558-8585, Japan.

PNAS nexus
|September 30, 2024
PubMed
概括

这项研究使用冷电子显微镜来确定重建的光采集复合体II (rLHCII) 的3D结构. 结果显示rLHCII密切模仿本地LHCII结构,验证了体外复制技术.

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