Phycobilisomes of porphyridium cruentum: I. Isolation

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1972, Pages 313-324

  Gantt, E ^a   Lipschdltz, C A ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER; CHLOROPHYLL; PHOSPHATE; PIGMENT; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SURFACTANT;

ALGA; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL GRANULE; CYTOLOGY; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RED ALGA;

ALGAE; ALGAE, RED; BUFFERS; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; CHLOROPHYLL; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PHOSPHATES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PIGMENTS; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 0015385724     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 15408140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.54.2.313     Document Type: Article

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