Identification of the chlB gene and the gene product essential for the light-independent chlorophyll biosynthesis in the cyanobacterium Plectonema boryanum

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 313-323

  Fujita, Yuichi ^a   Takagi, Hidenori ^a   Hase, Toshiharu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

chlB; Chlorophyll biosynthesis; Cyanobacterium; Plectonema boryanum; Protochlorophyllide reductase

Indexed keywords

ALGAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CHLB PROTEIN, CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYLL; NITROGENASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PRIMER DNA; PROTOCHLOROPHYLLIDE; PROTOCHLOROPHYLLIDE REDUCTASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALGAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPHYLL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGENASE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON CH-CH GROUP DONORS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTOCHLOROPHYLLIDE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0030116924     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a028948     Document Type: Article

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