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This minireview focuses on the physical separation of chlorophyll-protein complexes and particles from the two photosystems by sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS)-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) or differential/sucrose density-gradient centrifugation during the decade of 1960s.
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Ogawa, T. (2005). Physical separation of chlorophyll-protein complexes. In: Govindjee, Beatty, J.T., Gest, H., Allen, J.F. (eds) Discoveries in Photosynthesis. Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3324-9_41
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