Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2049130 | FEBS Letters | 2008 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Dark-grown angiosperm seedlings are etiolated and devoid of chlorophyll. Deetiolation is triggered by light leading to chlorophyll dependent accumulation of the photosynthetic machinery. The transfer of chlorophyll to the chlorophyll-binding proteins is still unclear. We demonstrate here that upon illumination of dark-grown barley seedlings, two new pigment-binding protein complexes are de novo accumulated. Pigments bound to both complexes are identified as chlorophyll a and protochlorophyll a. By auto-fluorescence tracking and mass spectrometry, we show that exclusively Lil3 is the pigment-binding complex subunit in both complexes.
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Authors
Veronika Reisinger, Matthias Plöscher, Lutz A. Eichacker,