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Identification of a gene required for cis-to-trans carotene isomerization in carotenogenesis of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
Plant & cell physiology - 1 Dec 2001
Masamoto K, Wada H, Kaneko T, Takaichi S
Abstract excerpt
A disruptive mutant of the sll0033 gene of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 produced primarily cis carotenes and small amounts of all-trans carotenes, but no xanthophylls, under dark conditions. Under light conditions, however, it produced normal carotenoids, that were the same as those produced by wild-type cells grown under both light and dark conditions. When the mutant cells cultured under dark...
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