Chlorobium tepidum carotenoid

Takaichi S, Wang Z-Y, Umetsu M, Nozawa T, Shimada K and Madigan MT (1997a) New carotenoids from the thermophilic green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum r,2 -dihydro-y-carotene, l, 2 -dihydrochlorobactene, and OH-chlorobactene glucoside ester, and the carotenoid composition of different strains. Arch Microbiol 168 270-276... 

Bialek-Bylka GE, Fujii R, Chen C-H, Oh-oka H, Kamiesu A, Satoh K, Koike H and Koyama Y (1998b) 15-Cis-carotenoids found in the reaction center of a green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum and in the Photosystem I reaction center of a cyanobacterium Synechococcus vulcanus. Photosynth Res 58 1-8... 

Carotenoids of Chlorobaculum (previously Chlorobium) tepidum have been precisely investigated [85], and some enzymes involved in the synthesis of these carotenoids have been functionally confirmed (Fig. 106.6, Table 106.3) [31, 34, 79]. 

Frigaard N-U, Maresca JA, Yunker CE, Jraies AD, Bryant DA (2004) Genetic manipulation of carotenoid biosynthesis in the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum. J Bacteriol 186 5210-5220... 

Maresca JA, Bryant DA (2006) Two genes encoding new carotenoid-modifying enzymes in the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum. J Bacteriol 188 6217-6223 Komori M, Ghosh R, Takaichi S, Hu Y, Mizoguchi T, Koyama Y, Kuki M (1998) A null lesion in the rhodopin 3,4-desaturase of Rhoodspirillum rubrum unmasks a cryptic branch of the carotenoid biosynthetic pathway. Biochemistry 37 8987-8994... 

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