Cyanobacterial protein with similarity to the chlorophyll a/b binding proteins of higher plants: evolution and regulation.
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SUBMITTER: Dolganov NA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC42797 | biostudies-other | 1995 Jan
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Cyanobacterial protein with similarity to the chlorophyll a/b binding proteins of higher plants: evolution and regulation.
Dolganov N A NA Bhaya D D Grossman A R AR
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19950101 2
We have isolated, from the prokaryotic cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942, a gene encoding a protein of 72 amino acids [designated high light inducible protein (HLIP)] with similarity to the extended family of eukaryotic chlorophyll a/b binding proteins (CABs). HLIP has a single membrane-spanning alpha-helix, whereas both the CABs and the related early light inducible proteins have three membrane-spanning helices. Hence, HLIP may represent an evolutionary progenitor of the eukaryot ...[more]
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