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Algal lipid bodies: stress induction, purification, and biochemical characterization in wild-type and starchless Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
Eukaryotic cell - 1 Dec 2009
Wang Zi Teng, Ullrich Nico, Joo Sunjoo, Waffenschmidt Sabine, Goodenough Ursula
Abstract excerpt
When the unicellular green soil alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is deprived of nitrogen after entering stationary phase in liquid culture, the cells produce abundant cytoplasmic lipid bodies (LBs), as well as abundant starch, via a pathway that accompanies a regulated autophagy program. After 48 h of N starvation in the presence of acetate, the wild-type LB content has increased 15-fold. When starch biosynthesis...
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