Accumulation of protoporphyrin IX and Zn protoporphyrin IX in Cyanidium caldarium
- 1 March 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 78 (3) , 1700-1702
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.78.3.1700
Abstract
In vivo fluorescence studies of Cyanidium caldarium mutants grown in the dark in dextrose-containing media have shown that these organisms accumulate protoporphyrin IX. In the dark the accumulated protoporphyrin IX is gradually turned into a metalloporphyrin, Zn protoporphyrin. In the light, in the chlorophyll-lacking mutant GGB, both compounds are degraded and phycobiliproteins are formed. These results implicate protoporphyrin IX in situ as the general precursor to tetrapyrrole pigments and Zn protoporphyrin IX as a possible intermediate or regulator in the biosynthesis of phycobilins.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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