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Fluorescence Recovery after Merging a Droplet to Measure the Two-dimensional Diffusion of a Phospholipid Monolayer
Published on: October 15, 2015
Photophosphorylation by monomolecular films at an air-water interface
1Department of Biology, Washington Square, New York University, New York, N.Y. 10003.
Abstract:
An acetone extract of chloroplast particles, when layered on an aqueous surface, exhibited light-dependent phosphorylation. Studies with the firefly-tail enzyme assay, as well as with (32)P-labeled inorganic phosphate, show an initial release of adenosine triphosphate (a step that is apparently only light-triggered), followed by a light-dependent uptake of the labeled inorganic phosphate into adenosine diphosphate and adenosine triphosphate.
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