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Involvement of carotenoids in the synthesis and assembly of protein subunits of photosynthetic reaction centers of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.
Plant & cell physiology - 1 May 2010
Sozer Ozge, Komenda Josef, Ughy Bettina, Domonkos Ildikó, Laczkó-Dobos Hajnalka, Malec Przemyslaw, Gombos Zoltán, Kis Mihály
Abstract excerpt
The crtB gene of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, encoding phytoene synthase, was inactivated in the Delta crtH mutant to generate a carotenoidless Delta crtH/B double mutant. Delta crtH mutant cells were used because they had better transformability than wild-type cells, most probably due to their adaptation to partial carotenoid deficiency. Cells of the Delta crtH/B mutant were light sensitive and could grow only...
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