Phycoerythrins of the oxyphotobacterium Prochlorococcus marinus are associated to the thylakoid membrane and are encoded by a single large gene cluster

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 507-521

  Hess, Wolfgang R ^a   Steglich, Claudia ^d   Lichtlé, Christiane ^b   Partensky, Frédéric ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Immunogold labelling; Light harvesting complexes; Photosynthesis; Phycobilins; Phytoplankton

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENE; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCING; PHYCOBILIPROTEIN; PHYCOERYTHRIN III;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPLASTS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, BACTERIAL; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYCOERYTHRIN; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROCHLOROCOCCUS MARINUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 0033150324     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006252013008     Document Type: Article

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