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Spectrophotometric Determination of Phycobiliprotein Content in Cyanobacterium Synechocystis
Published on: September 11, 2018
Proteomic approaches in research of cyanobacterial photosynthesis
Natalia Battchikova1, Martina Angeleri2, Eva-Mari Aro2
1Laboratory of Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland. natbat@utu.fi.
Abstract:
Oxygenic photosynthesis in cyanobacteria, algae, and plants is carried out by a fabulous pigment-protein machinery that is amazingly complicated in structure and function. Many different approaches have been undertaken to characterize the most important aspects of photosynthesis, and proteomics has become the essential component in this research. Here we describe various methods which have been used in proteomic research of cyanobacteria, and demonstrate how proteomics is implemented into on-going studies of photosynthesis in cyanobacterial cells.
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