Cloning of the gene encoding a protochlorophyllide reductase: The physiological significance of the co-existence of light-dependent and -independent protochlorophyllide reduction systems in the cyanobacterium Plectonema boryanum

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 177-185

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

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLEACHING; CHLOROPHYLL; ENZYME METABOLISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME; GENOME IMPRINTING; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; OPEN READING FRAME; PLECTONEMA BORYANUM; PROTOCHLOROPHYLLIDE REDUCTASE;

EID: 0032006920     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029355     Document Type: Article

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