Reminiscence About'Chloropseudomonas Ethylicum' and the FMO-protein

Overview

Journal Photosynth Res

Publisher Springer

Date 2013 Dec 7

PMID 24310006

Citations 5

Authors

J M Olson

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Abstract

In 1961 the green sulfur bacterium-containing mixed culture known as'Chloropseudomonas ethylicum' was brought to Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA) from Moscow State University (USSR). The water-soluble bacteriochlorophylla-protein (FMO-protein) was extracted, purified and characterized by absorption and circular dichroism spectroscopy, by X-ray crystallography and by primary structure determination.

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