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Exploring the ability of chlorophyll b to bind to the CP43' protein induced under iron deprivation in a mutant of Synechocystis PCC 6803 containing the cao gene.
FEBS letters - 24 Apr 2003
Duncan James, Bibby Thomas, Tanaka Ayumi, Barber James
Abstract excerpt
Cyanobacteria, unlike plants and green algae, do not contain chlorophyll (Chl) b. This is because of the absence of the cao gene which encodes the enzyme that catalyses a two step oxygenation of chlorophyllide a to chlorophyllide b. Recently, however, the cao gene of higher plants was engineered into Synechocystis PCC 6803 leading to Chl b synthesis in this cyanobacterium [Satoh et al., J. Biol. Chem. 276 (2001)...
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