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Chlorophyll degradation in a Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mutant: an accumulation of pyropheophorbide a by anaerobiosis.
Plant & cell physiology - 1 May 2001
Doi M, Inage T, Shioi Y
Abstract excerpt
Chlorophyll degradation was investigated in cells of a chlorophyll b-less mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. During degradation of chlorophyll under anaerobic conditions, chlorophyll catabolite P535, an open-tetrapyrrole, was not excreted, but pyropheophorbide a was accumulated as the end product with a transient accumulation of chlorophyllide a and pheophorbide a in...
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