Copper-containing plastocyanin used for electron transport by an oceanic diatom

Nature

Volumn 441, Issue 7091, 2006, Pages 341-344

  Peers, Graham ^a   Price, Neil M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHLOROPHYLL; ECOSYSTEMS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS;

BIOCHEMICAL SWITCH; OCEANIC DIATOM; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CHLOROPHYLL B; COPPER; FERROUS ION; PLASTOCYANIN; CHLOROPHYLL; SEA WATER;

CHLOROPHYLL; COPPER; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; IRON; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PROTEIN;

ALGA; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACTIVATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; THALASSIOSIRA OCEANICA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHLOROPHYLL; COPPER; DIATOMS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLASTOCYANIN; SEAWATER;

EID: 33744966833     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04630     Document Type: Article

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