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Post-transcriptional Control of the Expression of Photosynthetic Complex Formation in Rhodobacter sphaeroides

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Molecular Biology of Membrane-Bound Complexes in Phototrophic Bacteria

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Rhodobacter sphaeroides is a facultative photoheterotroph, able to grow on a variety of reduced organic carbon sources either in the presence or absence of O2, in either the light or dark. When grown anaerobically in the light, the organism is a photoheterotroph utilizing light energy captured and transferred via a series of functionally interrelated spectral complexes. Energy ultimately transferred to the reaction center complex (RC) is the source of oxidation of one of a special pair of bacteriochlorophyll (Bchl) molecules (Sauer, 1986)1.

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  1. Department of Microbiology, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX, 77225, USA

    Samuel Kaplan

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  1. Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany

    Gerhart Drews

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Kaplan, S. (1990). Post-transcriptional Control of the Expression of Photosynthetic Complex Formation in Rhodobacter sphaeroides . In: Drews, G., Dawes, E.A. (eds) Molecular Biology of Membrane-Bound Complexes in Phototrophic Bacteria. FEMS Symposium. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0893-6_14

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