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Cohen-Bazire and Kunisawa1 have reported that the chromatophores of Rhodospirillum rubrum can be separated into two fractions by centrifugation in a sucrose density gradient. From their relative positions in the gradient, they were designated ‘heavy’ and ‘light’ chromatophores.
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LANGRIDGE, R., BARRON, P. & SISTROM, W. Structure of a Chromatophore Fraction of Rhodopseudomonas spheroides. Nature 204, 97–98 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/204097a0
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