First-Ever Structural Revelation of Photosynthetic Bacteria’s Light-Harvesting Complex

A joint research team led by Dr. Tadashi Shimizu, who is a Group Leader in the Nano Characterization Center at the National Institute for Materials Science, succeeded in a detailed elucidation of the structure of the molecule called bacteriochlorophyll c, which is a kind of chlorophyll, in actual living bodies using the carbon and magnesium solid-state NMR and other techniques.

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