@article{78999db4e84f422f92ec9019b6eb61c1,
title = "Light harvesting by lamellar chromatophores in Rhodospirillum photometricum",
abstract = "Purple photosynthetic bacteria harvest light using pigment-protein complexes which are often arranged in pseudo-organelles called chromatophores. A model of a chromatophore from Rhodospirillum photometricum was constructed based on atomic force microscopy data. Molecular-dynamics simulations and quantum-dynamics calculations were performed to characterize the intercomplex excitation transfer network and explore the interplay between close-packing and light-harvesting efficiency.",
author = "Chandler, {Danielle E.} and Johan Str{\"u}mpfer and Melih Sener and Simon Scheuring and Klaus Schulten",
note = "Funding Information: Funding was provided by National Science Foundation grants No. PHY-0822613 and MCB-1157615, and National Institutes of Health grant No. 9P41GM104601. This study used computer resources provided in the framework of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), which is supported by National Science Foundation grant No. OCI-1053575, and also received computer time from the Tsubame supercomputer (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan). The research used resources of the Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is supported by the Office of Science of the Department of Energy under grant No. DE-AC05-00OR22725. Furthermore, the investigation is also part of the Blue Waters Sustained-Petascale Computing Project, which is supported by the National Science Foundation (grant No. OCI 07-25070) and the State of Illinois. Blue Waters is a joint effort of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The study was also made possible by the Petascale Computational Resource grant “The Computational Microscope,” which is supported by the National Science Foundation (grant No. OCI-0832673). All molecular graphics images were produced using the QUICKSURF ( 30 ) representation in the software VMD ( 31 ). ",
year = "2014",
month = jun,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1016/j.bpj.2014.04.030",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "106",
pages = "2503--2510",
journal = "Biophysical Journal",
issn = "0006-3495",
publisher = "Biophysical Society",
number = "11",
}