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In vivo participation of red chlorophyll catabolite reductase in chlorophyll breakdown.
The Plant cell - 1 Jan 2007
Pruzinská Adriana, Anders Iwona, Aubry Sylvain, Schenk Nicole, Tapernoux-Lüthi Esther, Müller Thomas, Kräutler Bernhard, Hörtensteiner Stefan
Abstract excerpt
A central reaction of chlorophyll breakdown, porphyrin ring opening of pheophorbide a to the primary fluorescent chlorophyll catabolite (pFCC), requires pheophorbide a oxygenase (PAO) and red chlorophyll catabolite reductase (RCCR), with red chlorophyll catabolite (RCC) as a presumably PAO-bound...
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