Light-harvesting chlorophyll c-like pigment in Prochloron

A. W D Larkum; C. Scaramuzzi; G. C. Cox; R. G. Hiller; A. G. Turner

Light-harvesting chlorophyll c-like pigment in Prochloron

A. W D Larkum^*, C. Scaramuzzi, G. C. Cox, R. G. Hiller, A. G. Turner

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Abstract

A chlorophyll c-like pigment, similar to magnesium-3,8-divinyl pheoporphyrin a₅ monomethyl ester, has been isolated from Prochloron sp. obtained from five species of didemnid ascidians from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, and from Palau, Micronesia. The pigment represents 4-15% of the total chlorophyll content and is shown to function in a light-harvesting pigment protein complex of Prochloron. The observation that all of the major chlorophylls (a+b+c) function in a light-harvesting role in Prochloron and possibly in other prochlorophytes is discussed in terms of the phylogeny of the prochlorophytes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	679-683
Number of pages	5
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume	91
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - 18 Jan 1994

Keywords

endosymbiosis
phylogeny
Prochlorophyta

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Light-harvesting chlorophyll c-like pigment in Prochloron

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