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Carotenoids are essential for normal levels of dimerisation of the RC-LH1-PufX core complex of Rhodobacter sphaeroides: characterisation of R-26 as a crtB (phytoene synthase) mutant.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 1 Sept 2011
Ng Irene W, Adams Peter G, Mothersole David J, Vasilev Cvetelin, Martin Elizabeth C, Lang Helen P, Tucker Jaimey D, Neil Hunter C
Abstract excerpt
Carotenoids play important roles in photosynthesis where they are involved in light-harvesting, in photo-protection and in the assembly and structural stability of light-harvesting and reaction centre complexes. In order to examine the effects of carotenoids on the oligomeric state of the reaction centre-light-harvesting 1 -PufX (RC-LH1-PufX) core complex of Rhodobacter sphaeroides two carotenoid-less mutants,...
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