Modulation of the light-harvesting chlorophyll antenna size in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by TLA1 gene over-expression and RNA interference

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1608, 2012, Pages 3430-3443

  Mitra, Mautusi ^a,b   Kirst, Henning ^a   Dewez, David ^a   Melis, Anastasios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chl antenna size; Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; RNAi; Thylakoid membrane development; TLA1 gene; VIPP1 protein

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GREEN ALGA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN; RNA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 84869238309     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0229     Document Type: Article

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