STRUCTURAL ROLE OF CAROTENOIDS IN PHOTOSYNTHETIC MEMBRANES

Authors
MOSKALENKO AA KARAPETYAN NV
Citation
Aa. Moskalenko et Nv. Karapetyan, STRUCTURAL ROLE OF CAROTENOIDS IN PHOTOSYNTHETIC MEMBRANES, Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung. C, A journal of biosciences, 51(11-12), 1996, pp. 763-771
Citations number
42
Categorie Soggetti
Biology
Journal title
Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung. C, A journal of biosciences → ACNP
ISSN journal
09395075
Volume
51
Issue
11-12
Year of publication
1996
Pages
763 - 771
Database
ISI
SICI code
0939-5075(1996)51:11-12<763:SROCIP>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
Besides the light-harvesting and protecting role, carotenoids are also instrumental as structural components for the assembly of light-harve sting complexes in purple bacteria and green plants, as well as for th e formation of photosystem II complex. Carotenoids stabilize those pig ment-protein complexes, but have no effect on the formation of the rea ction centers of purple bacteria and photosystem I of plants.