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How the chlorophyll-proteins got their names

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Discoveries in Photosynthesis

Part of the book series: Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration ((AIPH,volume 20))

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This is the story of how we started studying the green bands seen on SDS-polyacrylamide gels of thylakoid membranes dissociated with the non-ionic detergent β-octyl-D-glucopyranoside. We explain some of the complications we and other workers encountered along the pathway to untangling the chlorophyll-protein complexes of higher plants, and give a concise summary of the complexes, their polypeptides and their genes.

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  1. Biology Department, University College of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada

    Edith L. Camm

  2. Botany Department, University of British Columbia, Room 1316, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4

    Beverley R. Green

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  1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA

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  2. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    J. Thomas Beatty

  3. Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

    Howard Gest

  4. Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

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Camm, E.L., Green, B.R. (2005). How the chlorophyll-proteins got their names. 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_42

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