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Bilin-Dependent Photoacclimation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
The Plant cell - 1 Nov 2017
Wittkopp Tyler M, Schmollinger Stefan, Saroussi Shai, Hu Wei, Zhang Weiqing, Fan Qiuling, Gallaher Sean D, Leonard Michael T, Soubeyrand Eric, Basset Gilles J, Merchant Sabeeha S, Grossman Arthur R, Duanmu Deqiang, Lagarias J Clark
Abstract excerpt
In land plants, linear tetrapyrrole (bilin)-based phytochrome photosensors optimize photosynthetic light capture by mediating massive reprogramming of gene expression. But, surprisingly, many green algal genomes lack phytochrome genes. Studies of the heme oxygenase mutant (hmox1) of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii suggest that bilin biosynthesis in plastids is essential for proper regulation of a nuclear...
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