Chlorophyll b and phycobilins in the common ancestor of cyanobacteria and chloroplasts

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6740, 1999, Pages 159-162

  Tomitani, Akiko ^a,b   Okada, Kiyotaka ^a   Miyashita, Hideaki ^c   Matthijs, Hans C P ^d   Ohno, Terufumi ^e   Tanaka, Ayumi ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A; CHLOROPHYLL A OXYGENASE; CHLOROPHYLL B; OXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; CYANOBACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCHLOROTHRIX; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALGAE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPLASTS; CYANOBACTERIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYGENASES; PHYCOBILINS; PHYCOCYANIN; PHYLOGENY; PROCHLORON; PROCHLOROTHRIX; PYRROLES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TETRAPYRROLES;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; PHOTOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS MARINUS; PROCHLORON; PROCHLORON DIRETONI; PROCHLOROPHYTES; PROCHLOROTHRIX; PROCHLOROTHRIX HOLLANDICA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033536171     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/22101     Document Type: Article

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