Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

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

  • 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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36460-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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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.