A new model of phycobilisome in Spirulina platensis

Science in China, Series C: Life Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 74-79

  Zhang, Yuzhong ^a,b   Chen, Xiulan ^b   Zhou, Baicheng ^a   Zeng, Chengkui ^a   Liu, Jie ^a   Shi, Dongxia ^a   Pang, Shijin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Phycobilisomes; Scanning tunneling microscope; Spirulina platensis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010977451     PISSN: 10069305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02881751     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Guglielmi, G., Cohen-Bazire, G., Bryant, D. A., The structure of Gloeobacter violaceus and its phycobilisomes. Arch. Microbiol., 1981, 129:181.
2. Bryant, D. A., Gluglielmi, G., Tandau de Marsae, N. et al., The structure of cyanobacterial phycobilisomes: a model, Arch. Microbiol., 1979, 123: 113.
3. Glazer, A. N., Phycobilisome: a macromolecular complex optimized for energy transfer, Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1984, 768:29.
4. Gantt, E., Structure and function of phycobilisomes: Light harvesting pigment complexes in red algae and blue-green algae, Int. Rev. Cytol., 1980, 60: 45.
5. Lange, W., Wilhelm, C., Wehrmeyer, W. et al., The supermolecular structure of photosystem II-phycobilisome-complexes of Porphyridium cruentum, Bot. Acta, 1990, 103:250.
6. Gannt, E., Lipschultz, C. A., Structure and phycibiliprotein composition of phycobilisomes from Griffithsia pacifica (Rhodophyceae), J. Phycol., 1980, 16:394.
7. Reuter, W., Nickel-Reuter, C., Molecular assembly of the phycobilisomes from the cyanobacterium Mastigocladus laminosus, J. Photobiol. Photochem. B, 1993, 18:51.
8. Wiesendanger, R., Scanning Probe Microscope and Spectroscopy. Methods and Applications, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, 525-536.
9. Zhang, Y. Z., Ma, Z. L., Zhou, B. C. et al., Investigation of C-phycocyanin from blue-green alga Spirulina platensis with scanning tunneling microscope, J. Vac. Sci. Technol., 1994, B12(3):1497.
10. Gantt, E., Lipschultz, C. A., Phycobilisomes of Porphyridium (I) - Isolation, J. Cell Biol., 1972, 54:313.
11. Rowan, K. S., Photosynthetic Pigments of Algae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, 167-188.
12. Chang, S. S., Kycia, J. H., Ledbeter, M. C. et al., Cyanobacterial phycobilisomes stoichiometry and morphology, in Molecular Biology of Photosynthetic Apparatus, New York: Cold Spring Laboratory Press, 1985, 241-247.