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Dörnem D, Kotzaba K, Rich P, Breu V, Senger H. The Regulation of Chlorophyll Biosynthesis by the Action of Protochlorophyllide onglut-RNA-Ligase. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1438-8677.1989.tb00074.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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This review is concerned specifically with the structures and biosynthesis of hemes in E. coli and serovar Typhimurium. However, inasmuch as all tetrapyrroles share a common biosynthetic pathway, much of the material covered here is applicable to tetrapyrrole biosynthesis in other organisms. Conversely, much of the available information about tetrapyrrole biosynthesis has been gained from studies of other organisms, such as plants, algae, cyanobacteria, and anoxygenic phototrophs, which synthesize large quantities of these compounds. This information is applicable to E. coli and serovar Typhimurium. Hemes play important roles as enzyme prosthetic groups in mineral nutrition, redox metabolism, and gas-and redox-modulated signal transduction. The biosynthetic steps from the earliest universal precursor, 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA), to protoporphyrin IX-based hemes constitute the major, common portion of the pathway, and other steps leading to specific groups of products can be considered branches off the main axis. Porphobilinogen (PBG) synthase (PBGS; also known as ALA dehydratase) catalyzes the asymmetric condensation of two ALA molecules to form PBG, with the release of two molecules of H2O. Protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase (PPX) catalyzes the removal of six electrons from the tetrapyrrole macrocycle to form protoporphyrin IX in the last biosynthetic step that is common to hemes and chlorophylls. Several lines of evidence converge to support a regulatory model in which the cellular level of available or free protoheme controls the rate of heme synthesis at the level of the first step unique to heme synthesis, the formation of GSA by the action of GTR.
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Sood S, Gupta V, Tripathy BC. Photoregulation of the greening process of wheat seedlings grown in red light*. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2005; 59:269-87. [PMID: 16247557 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-005-8880-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2005] [Accepted: 06/16/2005] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Wheat seedling grown with their shoot bottom exposed to red light (400 micromol m(-2) s(-1)) either with constant illumination or light-dark cycles did not accumulate chlorophyll. This near-etiolation response was manifested by a critical threshold intensity of red light and did not need continuous illumination. The inhibition of the greening process resulted from reduced synthesis of glutamate-1-semialdehyde and consequent reduction in tetrapyrrole precursor 5-aminolevulinic acid. Red light perceived by the shoot bottom down regulated the protein and/or gene expression of enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of tetrapyrroles. The contents of endogenous cytokinins, i.e., isopentenyl-adenosine and dihydrozeatinriboside, were reduced in seedlings grown in red light having their shoot bottom exposed. Application of exogenous cytokinin and its analogue to roots of seedlings grown in red light reversed the down regulation of the greening process. The reversal of red-light-induced near-etiolation morphogenesis by far-red (200 micromol m(-2) s(-1)) or blue (25 mumol m(-2) s(-1)) light suggests that it could be a very high red-irradiance response of phytochrome, in the meristematic layers of the shoot bottom, that works in concert with blue light receptor(s).
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- Suchi Sood
- School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 110067, New Delhi, India
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Quinn JM, Merchant S. Copper-responsive gene expression during adaptation to copper deficiency. Methods Enzymol 1998; 297:263-79. [PMID: 9750208 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(98)97020-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- J M Quinn
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles 90095, USA
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Chen W, Wright L, Li S, Cosloy SD, Russell CS, Lee S. Expression of glutamyl-tRNA reductase in Escherichia coli. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1996; 1309:109-21. [PMID: 8950186 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4781(96)00117-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The biosynthesis of the hemes, chlorophylls, corrins and other tetrapyrroles begins with the synthesis of 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA). The pathway is highly conserved except for the synthesis of ALA which is derived from glycine and succinyl CoA (C4) in most eukaryotes and from glutamate (C5) in most bacteria and in green plants. In C5, glutamyl-tRNA synthetase (GTS) converts glutamate to glutamyl-tRNA (glu-tRNA), which is reduced by glutamyl-tRNA reductase (GTR) to glutamyl-1-semialdehyde (GSA), which is converted by aminotransferase (GSA-AT) to ALA. Since GTS is also involved in protein synthesis and GSA can be converted to ALA non-enzymatically, it is highly probable that control of ALA synthesis and thus of the whole pathway resides in the GTR step. In Escherichia coli, GTR is the gene product of hemA. BL21(DE3), a protease-deficient strain which contains the T7 RNA polymerase gene in front of a lac promoter, was transformed with a pET14b-based vector, pWC01, harboring hemA in front of a T7 promoter and ORF1 which is transcribed in the opposite direction. The transformed strain, WC1201, secreted ALA and porphyrins into the medium. Induction of expression of hemA by WC1201 was optimized for concentration of inducer (IPTG, 5 mM), temperature (37 degrees C), presence of betaine and sorbitol (no change) and time of induction (2h). GTR was observable as a 46 kDa band by Brilliant blue G staining of SDS-PAGE gels. Sonicates of the induction mixture exhibited strong ALA synthesis activity which was enhanced by tRNAglu. Most of the activity was in the supernatant of the sonicate indicating that GTR is a soluble enzyme. The induced strain had more GTS activity than the uninduced strain which had more GTS activity than its parent wild-type strain. Autoradiography on native gradient PAGE showed that GTR expressed in vivo by induction of WC1201 had a molecular weight of approx. 117 kDa. Gel filtration of the induced sonicate showed a peak of enzymatic activity at about 126 kDa. When pET14b- or pUC19-based plasmids harboring hemA and ORF1, or importantly, a pUC19-based plasmid harboring only hemA and not ORF1, were expressed in an in vitro transcription-translation system, native gradient PAGE showed a product with a molecular weight of approximately 175 kDA. This expression was higher in the presence of tRNAglu. When the 117 kDa and 175 kDa proteins were excised from their native gels respectively, and run on SDS PAGE, autoradiography showed bands at 46 kDa. We conclude that GTR is present in both high molecular weight species. Since overexpression of hemA from pET14b-based plasmids is associated with increased glutamyl-tRNA synthetase activity, the 175 kDa species may represent different complexes of GTR, GTS and glutamyl-tRNA as observed in Chlamydomonas and the 117-126 kDa species may be an dimer of GTR associated with glu-tRNA or a complex of GTR, GTS and glu-tRNA. These possibilities are being investigated.
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- W Chen
- Department of Biology, City College of New York, City University of New York, NY 10031, USA
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Chemical synthesis of porphobilinogen and studies of its biosynthesis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/s1521-4478(06)80004-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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van Brummelen R, Bissbort S. Chicken eggshell porphyrins and the glyoxalase pathway: its possible physiological role. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. B, COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY 1993; 104:657-62. [PMID: 8472535 DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(93)90193-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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1. The plasma 4,5-dioxovaleric acid (DOVA) levels of two different breeds of chicken were determined and found to be higher in the group with a higher porphyrin eggshell content. 2. The erythrocyte and uterus glyoxalase II activity, investigated by means of a new spectrophotometric method, was found to be significantly higher in the group with a low porphyrin eggshell content. 3. A comparative genetic study of two chicken populations, one with white and one with dark eggshells, showed different gene frequencies for the glyoxalase I polymorphism. 4. An interpretation of these data suggests that the glyoxalase pathway may be involved in the metabolism of early porphyrin precursors.
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- R van Brummelen
- Department of Chemical Pathology, University of Pretoria, South Africa
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Smith MA, Kannangara CG, Grimm B, von Wettstein D. Characterization of glutamate-1-semialdehyde aminotransferase of Synechococcus. Steady-state kinetic analysis. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1991; 202:749-57. [PMID: 1765090 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1991.tb16429.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Synechococcus glutamate-1-semialdehyde aminotransferase was expressed in large amounts in transformed cells of Escherichia coli. The resulting purified enzyme has an absorption spectrum characteristic of B6-containing enzymes and could be converted to the pyridoxal-phosphate form with excess dioxovalerate (O2Val), and back to the pyridoxamine-phosphate form with diaminovalerate (A2Val). Both enzyme forms are similarly active in the conversion of glutamate 1-semialdehyde (GSA) to 5-aminolevulinate (ALev), suggesting that A2Val and O2Val are intermediates. Initial rates of ALev synthesis at various fixed concentrations of GSA followed typical Michaelis-Menten kinetics (Km of GSA for the pyridoxamine-phosphate form of GSA aminotransferase = 12 microM, kcat = 0.23 s-1). In submicromolar amounts A2Val stimulates ALev synthesis, and in a series of concentrations with various fixed concentrations of GSA, gives a family of parallel lines in Lineweaver-Burk plots (Km for A2Val = 1.0 microM). On the other hand, O2Val gives competitive inhibition of the pyridoxamine-phosphate form of GSA-aminotransferase and mixed-type inhibition of the pyridoxal-phosphate form (Ki for O2Val = 1.4 mM). In general the kinetics were typical of ping-pong bi-bi mechanisms in which A2Val is the second substrate (intermediate) and O2Val is an alternative first substrate. There is no compelling evidence that O2Val accepts an amino group at its C5 position resulting in the direct formation of ALev, or the reverse involving the apparent formation of O2Val from ALev. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the mechanism of GSA aminotransferase mimics that of other aminotransferases and that A2Val is the intermediate.
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- M A Smith
- Graduate School of Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
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Smith MA, Grimm B, Kannangara CG, von Wettstein D. Spectral kinetics of glutamate-1-semialdehyde aminomutase of Synechococcus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1991; 88:9775-9. [PMID: 11607231 PMCID: PMC52803 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.21.9775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Purified Synechococcus glutamate-1-semialdehyde aminotransferase (GSA-AT; EC 5.4.3.8) has absorption maxima characteristic of vitamin B6-containing enzymes and can be converted to the pyridoxamine 5'-phosphate or pyridoxal 5'-phosphate form by reaction with diaminovalerate or dioxovalerate, respectively, suggesting that these two analogues are intermediates in the conversion of glutamate 1-semialdehyde (GSA) to 5-aminolevulinate (ALA). Values for Km and kmax were calculated for GSA, diaminovalerate, ALA, and gabaculine from absorption change rates during conversion of one coenzyme form of GSA-AT to the other, upon addition of one of these compounds. The substrate specificity (kmax/Km) of diaminovalerate is about 3 orders of magnitude larger than that of dioxovalerate, making the latter an unlikely intermediate in the enzymic conversion of GSA to ALA. GSA reacts with both coenzyme forms, whereas ALA only reacts with the pyridoxamine 5'-phosphate form of the enzyme. However, ALA does form a complex with the pyridoxal 5'-phosphate form of GSA-AT and inhibits reactions between gabaculine and GSA-AT. This relatively stable complex (Ki = 8 M) may have significance in enzyme inhibition. Both L and D enantiomers of GSA react with GSA-AT. Spectral changes observed upon addition of DL-GSA are apparently due to reaction with the less reactive D-isomer. L-GSA is converted to ALA prior to major spectral changes induced by the racemic mixture.
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- M A Smith
- Department of Physiology, Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Jordan PM. Chapter 1 The biosynthesis of 5-aminolaevulinic acid and its transformation into uroporphyrinogen III. BIOSYNTHESIS OF TETRAPYRROLES 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7306(08)60108-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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McKinney CE, Ades IZ. Production of delta-aminolevulinic acid: characterization of murine liver 4,5-dioxovaleric acid: L-alanine aminotransferase. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1991; 23:803-10. [PMID: 1773884 DOI: 10.1016/0020-711x(91)90063-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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1. We report on the kinetic properties of murine liver 4,5-dioxovaleric acid:L-alanine aminotransferase (DOVA transaminase). 2. The transamination of 4,5-dioxovaleric acid (DOVA) led to the production of delta-aminolevulinic acid. 3. L-Alanine was the preferred amino group donor among the common 20 amino acids. 4. The optimum pH of the reaction was 7-8. 5. A Km of 220 microM for DOVA and a Km of 970 microM for L-alanine were obtained. 6. The reaction was inhibited by each of the following: glyoxylate, beta-chloroalanine, methylglyoxal, delta-aminolevulinate, pyruvate, heme, and gabaculine. 7. None of several xenobiotic inducers of microsomal mixed function oxidases tested had a significant effect on DOVA transaminase activity in studies performed with murine primary hepatocyte cultures.
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- C E McKinney
- Department of Zoology, University of Maryland, College Park 20742
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Beale SI, Weinstein JD. Chapter 5 Biochemistry and regulation of photosynthetic pigment formation in plants and algae. BIOSYNTHESIS OF TETRAPYRROLES 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7306(08)60112-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- G P O'Neill
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511
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Jahn D, Chen MW, Söll D. Purification and functional characterization of glutamate-1-semialdehyde aminotransferase from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)52416-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Elliott T, Avissar YJ, Rhie GE, Beale SI. Cloning and sequence of the Salmonella typhimurium hemL gene and identification of the missing enzyme in hemL mutants as glutamate-1-semialdehyde aminotransferase. J Bacteriol 1990; 172:7071-84. [PMID: 2254275 PMCID: PMC210830 DOI: 10.1128/jb.172.12.7071-7084.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Salmonella typhimurium forms the heme precursor delta-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) exclusively from glutamate via the five-carbon pathway, which also occurs in plants and some bacteria including Escherichia coli, rather than by ALA synthase-catalyzed condensation of glycine and succinyl-coenzyme A, which occurs in yeasts, fungi, animal cells, and some bacteria including Bradyrhizobium japonicum and Rhodobacter capsulatus. ALA-auxotrophic hemL mutant S. typhimurium cells are deficient in glutamate-1-semialdehyde (GSA) aminotransferase, the enzyme that catalyzes the last step of ALA synthesis via the five-carbon pathway. hemL cells transformed with a plasmid containing the S. typhimurium hemL gene did not require ALA for growth and had GSA aminotransferase activity. Growth in the presence of ALA did not appreciably affect the level of extractable GSA aminotransferase activity in wild-type cells or in hemL cells transformed with the hemL plasmid. These results indicate that GSA aminotransferase activity is required for in vivo ALA biosynthesis from glutamate. In contrast, extracts of both wild-type and hemL cells had gamma,delta-dioxovalerate aminotransferase activity, which indicates that this reaction is not catalyzed by GSA aminotransferase and that the enzyme is not encoded by the hemL gene. The S. typhimurium hemL gene was sequenced and determined to contain an open reading frame of 426 codons encoding a 45.3-kDa polypeptide. The sequence of the hemL gene bears no recognizable similarity to the hemA gene of S. typhimurium or E. coli, which encodes glutamyl-tRNA reductase, or to the hemA genes of B. japonicum or R. capsulatus, which encode ALA synthase. The predicted hemL gene product does show greater than 50% identity to barley GSA aminotransferase over its entire length. Sequence similarity to other aminotransferases was also detected.
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- T Elliott
- Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35294
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Brown SB, Houghton JD, Vernon DI. Biosynthesis of phycobilins. Formation of the chromophore of phytochrome, phycocyanin and phycoerythrin. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY. B, BIOLOGY 1990; 5:3-23. [PMID: 2111391 DOI: 10.1016/1011-1344(90)85002-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Phycobiliproteins play important roles in photomorphogenesis and photosynthesis. The light-absorbing chromophores of the phycobiliproteins are linear tetrapyrroles (bilins) very similar in structure to the mammalian bile pigments. 5-Aminolaevulinate (5-ALA) is the first committed intermediate in phycobilin synthesis. The biosynthesis of 5-ALA, destined for phycobilins, occurs via the five-carbon pathway, now well established for tetrapyrrole synthesis in plants and distinct from the mammalian pathway. The phycobilins are formed by reduction of biliverdin which results from the synthesis and degradation of haem. This haem is an essential intermediate in the biosynthesis of phycobilins. Phycocyanobilin, the blue-green pigment found in certain algae and cyanobacteria, is formed from biliverdin via phytochromobilin, the chromophore of phytochrome. This leads to the likelihood that phytochromobilin is formed as an end product, or intermediate, in the synthesis of all phycobilins.
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- S B Brown
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Leeds, U.K
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Ades IZ. Heme production in animal tissues: the regulation of biogenesis of delta-aminolevulinate synthase. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1990; 22:565-78. [PMID: 2199251 DOI: 10.1016/0020-711x(90)90032-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- I Z Ades
- Department of Zoology, University of Maryland, College Park 20742
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Kotzabasis K, Breu V, Dörnemann D. The inhibitory effect of 4,5-dioxovalerate on 5-aminolevulinate dehydratase and its implication in the regulation of light-dependent chlorophyll formation in pigment mutant C-2A′ of Scenedesmus obliquus. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(89)80085-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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