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Both inorganic pyrophosphate and ATP may function as biological energy donors in chromatophores from the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum, causing energy requiring spectral changes in endogenous cytochrome(s) and carotenoid(s).
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BALTSCHEFFSKY, M. Inorganic Pyrophosphate and ATP as Energy Donors in Chromatophores from Rhodospirillum rubrum. Nature 216, 241–243 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216241a0
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