ArticlePhotosynthesis research
Atomic force microscopy of the bacterial photosynthetic apparatus: plain pictures of an elaborate machinery.
Article in Photosynthesis research. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed, 81 citations in OpenAlex.
- Priority effects inhibit the repeated evolution of phototrophy.Npj complexity · 2026Article
- Macroscale optimal size of ICM vesicles regulated by quantum design principle in LH2 structure.Biophysical journal · 2025Article
- A distinct double-ring LH1-LH2 photocomplex from an extremophilic phototroph.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Atomic force microscopic analysis of the light-harvesting complex 2 from purple photosynthetic bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum.Photosynthesis research · 2023Article
- Article
- Computational Methodologies for Real-Space Structural Refinement of Large Macromolecular Complexes.Annual review of biophysics · 2016Review
- Supramolecular organization of photosynthetic complexes in membranes of Roseiflexus castenholzii.Photosynthesis research · 2016Article
- Light harvesting by lamellar chromatophores in Rhodospirillum photometricum.Biophysical journal · 2014Article
- Lateral organization of biological membranes: role of long-range interactions.European biophysics journal : EBJ · 2013Article
- NS3 protease from hepatitis C virus: biophysical studies on an intrinsically disordered protein domain.International journal of molecular sciences · 2013Review
- Optimal fold symmetry of LH2 rings on a photosynthetic membrane.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013Article
- Ca(2+)-binding reduces conformational flexibility of RC-LH1 core complex from thermophile Thermochromatium tepidum.Photosynthesis research · 2012Article
- Lessons from nature about solar light harvesting.Nature chemistry · 2011Review
- Oligomerization state of photosynthetic core complexes is correlated with the dimerization affinity of a transmembrane helix.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2011Article
- Forces guiding assembly of light-harvesting complex 2 in native membranes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2011Article
- Drosophila photoreceptor cells exploited for the production of eukaryotic membrane proteins: receptors, transporters and channels.PloS one · 2011Article
- Förster energy transfer theory as reflected in the structures of photosynthetic light-harvesting systems.Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry · 2011Review
- Preparation of DNA and nucleoprotein samples for AFM imaging.Micron (Oxford, England : 1993) · 2011Review
- The supramolecular architecture, function, and regulation of thylakoid membranes in red algae: an overview.Photosynthesis research · 2010Review
- Energy transfer in light-adapted photosynthetic membranes: from active to saturated photosynthesis.Biophysical journal · 2009Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Photosynthesis both in the past and present provides the vast majority of the energy used on the planet. The purple photosynthetic bacteria are a group of organisms that are able to perform photosynthesis using a particularly simple system that has been much studied. The main molecular constituents required for photosynthesis in these organisms are a small number of transmembrane pigment-protein complexes. These are able to function together with a high quantum efficiency (about 95%) to convert light energy into chemical potential energy. While the structure of the various proteins have been solved for several years, direct studies of the supramolecular assembly of these complexes in native membranes needed maturity of the atomic force microscope (AFM). Here, we review the novel findings and the direct conclusions that could be drawn from high-resolution AFM analysis of photosynthetic membranes. These conclusions rely on the possibility that the AFM brings of obtaining molecular resolution images of large membrane areas and thereby bridging the resolution gap between atomic structures and cellular ultrastructure.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.