High localization of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase in the pyrenoids of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Chlorophyta), as revealed by cryofixation and immunogold electron microscopy

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 68-72

  Morita, Eiko ^a   Kuroiwa, Haruko ^b   Kuroiwa, Tsuneyoshi ^a   Nozaki, Hisayoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYORITSU WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas; Cryofixation; Immnnofluorescence microscopy; Immunogold electron microscopy; Pyrenoid; Ribulose 1,5 bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA;

EID: 0030943037     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3646.1997.00068.x     Document Type: Article

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