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A Synechococcus PCC7942 _ccmM (Cyanophyceae) mutant pseudoreverts to air growth without regaining carboxysomes

Date

Authors

Emlyn-Jones, Daniel

Woodger, Fiona

Andrews, Thomas

Price, Graeme (Dean)

Whitney, Spencer

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

In the cyanobacteria, intracellular structures called carboxysomes function to concentrate CO2 around the relatively inefficient CO2-fixing enzyme RUBISCO. Mutants devoid of carboxysomes, such as the Synechococcus PCC7942 ΔccmM mutant, are able to grow a

Keywords

Keywords: accumulation; bicarbonate; carbon dioxide; cyanobacterium; enzyme; genomics; growth; inorganic carbon; mutation; phenotype; RNA; Cyanobacteria; Synechococcus Bicarbonate; Carbon-concentrating-mechanism (CCM); Carboxysome; Cyanobacteria; Mutant; Photosynthesis; Pseudorevertant; RUBISCO

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/30524

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Journal of Phycology

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1111/j.1529-8817.2006.00236.x

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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