A method to probe the cytoplasmic osmolality and osmotic water and solute fluxes across the cell membrane of cyanobacteria with chlorophyll a fluorescence: Experiments with Synechococcus sp. PCC7942

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 215-224

  Papageorgiou, George C ^a   Alygizaki Zorba, Aikaterini ^a   Ladas, Nectaries ^a   Murata, Norio ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll a fluorescence; Cyanobacteria; Cytoplasmic osmolality; Osmotic fluorescence quenching; Osmotic solute water permeability; Synechococcus sp. PCC7942

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BETAINE; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CHLOROPHYLL; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; OSMOLALITY; PHOTOSYSTEM II; POTASSIUM; PROBE; SODIUM; SORBITOL; WATER FLOW;

SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 0031847574     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1998.1030209.x     Document Type: Article

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