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Deletion of the cytochrome bc complex from Heliobacterium modesticaldum results in viable but non-phototrophic cells.
Photosynthesis research - 1 Jun 2021
Leung Sabrina W, Baker Patricia L, Redding Kevin E
Abstract excerpt
The heliobacteria, a family of anoxygenic phototrophs, possess the simplest known photosynthetic apparatus. Although they are photoheterotrophs in the light, the heliobacteria can also grow chemotrophically via pyruvate metabolism in the dark. In the heliobacteria, the cytochrome bc complex is responsible for oxidizing menaquinol and reducing cytochrome c553 in the electron flow cycle used for phototrophy....
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