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Photosystem stoichiometry and state transitions in a mutant of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 lacking phycocyanin.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 1 Jun 2001
Zhao J, Shen G, Bryant D A
Abstract excerpt
Phycobilisomes (PBS) function as light-harvesting antenna complexes in cyanobacteria, red algae and cyanelles. They are composed of two substructures: the core and peripheral rods. Interposon mutagenesis of the cpcBA genes of Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 resulted in a strain (PR6008) lacking phycocyanin and thus the ability to form peripheral rods. Difference absorption spectroscopy of whole cells showed that...
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