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Effects of granule-bound starch synthase I-defective mutation on the morphology and structure of pyrenoidal starch in Chlamydomonas.
Plant science : an international journal of experimental plant biology - 1 Feb 2011
Izumo Asako, Fujiwara Shoko, Sakurai Toshihiro, Ball Steven G, Ishii Yoshimi, Ono Hikaru, Yoshida Mayumi, Fujita Naoko, Nakamura Yasunori, Buléon Alain, Tsuzuki Mikio
Abstract excerpt
Lowering of the CO₂ concentration in the environment induces development of a pyrenoidal starch sheath, as well as that of pyrenoid and CO₂-concentrating mechanisms, in many microalgae. In the green algae Chlamydomonas and Chlorella, activity of granule-bound starch synthase (GBSS) concomitantly increases under these conditions. In this study, effects of the GBSS-defective mutation (sta2) on the development of...
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