The Light-Harvesting Complex of Photosystem I in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: Protein Composition, Gene Structures and Phylogenic Implications

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 138-145

  Tokutsu, Ryutaro ^a   Teramoto, Haruhiko ^b   Takahashi, Yuichiro ^c   Ono, Taka Aki ^b   Minagawa, Jun ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; Light harvesting chlorophyll a b protein complex; Photosystem I

Indexed keywords

ALGAL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM I; PHYLOGENY; RED ALGA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALGAE, GREEN; ALGAE, RED; ALGAL PROTEINS; ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM I PROTEIN COMPLEX; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; GALDIERIA; GALDIERIA SULPHURARIA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 1542290924     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pch013     Document Type: Article

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