Rhodobacter capsulatus forms a compact crescent-shaped LH1–RC photocomplex

Rhodobacter capsulatus is a favored model organism for studying bacterial photosynthesis. Here the authors present a structure of its light-harvesting–reaction center complex, which reveals that it forms a crescent shape containing only 10 LH1 αβ-subunits.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kazutoshi Tani, Ryo Kanno, Xuan-Cheng Ji, Itsusei Satoh, Yuki Kobayashi, Malgorzata Hall, Long-Jiang Yu, Yukihiro Kimura, Akira Mizoguchi, Bruno M. Humbel, Michael T. Madigan, Zheng-Yu Wang-Otomo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36460-w