A red-shifted chlorophyll

Science

Volumn 329, Issue 5997, 2010, Pages 1318-1319

  Chen, Min ^a   Schliep, Martin ^a   Willows, Robert D ^b   Cai, Zheng Li ^c   Neilan, Brett A ^d   Scheer, Hugo ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL;

ABSORPTION; BIOENERGY; CHLOROPHYLL; ENERGY USE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; FLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; INFRARED RADIATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOTROPH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; CYANOBACTERIA; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77956529458     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1191127     Document Type: Article

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16. M.C. and B.A.N. hold Australian Research Council (ARC) fellowships and associated financial support. M.C. thanks K. Donohoe (University of Sydney) for assistance with polymerase chain reactions. M.C. and M.S. thank B. Crossett (University of Sydney) for mass spectral analysis. M.C. and H.S. thank A. Kwan and J. Mackay (University of Sydney) for NMR spectral analysis and A. W. D. Larkum (University of Sydney) for valuable discussions and continued support. R.D.W. acknowledges support from Macquarie University Strategic Infrastructure Scheme and Research and Development Scheme grants and the ARC and National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) fluorescent applications for biotechnology in life sciences network for use of the Leica confocal imaging system. R.D.W. and M.C. thank D. Birch (Macquarie University) for help with the Olympus confocal imaging. Z.-L.C. thanks J. Reimers (University of Sydney) for supercomputer access. The 16S rRNA sequence has been deposited in GenBank under accession number 1370306.