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Biosynthesis of open-chain tetrapyrroles in Prochlorococcus marinus.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Jun 2007
Dammeyer Thorben, Michaelsen Kristin, Frankenberg-Dinkel Nicole
Abstract excerpt
Members of the genus Prochlorococcus belong to the most abundant phytoplankton on earth. In contrast to other cyanobacteria, Prochlorococcus is characterized by divinyl-chlorophyll containing light-harvesting complexes and the lack of phycobilisomes. Despite the lack of phycobilisomes, all sequenced genomes of Prochlorococcus possess genes that putatively encode enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of open-chain...
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