Pigment solubilization of the chloroplast thylakoid membranes by a surfactant

Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 121-126

  Yang, Chi Ming ^a   Hsu, Jen Chieh ^a   Lu, Yih Kuang ^a   Yin, Ming Horng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Carotenoid; Chlorophyll; Neoxanthin; Pigment protein complex; Release sequence; Solubilization; Surfactant; Thylakoid membrane

Indexed keywords

EID: 9444230623     PISSN: 00068063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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