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Membrane Polypeptides associated with Photochemical Systems

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WE wish to report a specific relationship between certain chloroplast membrane polypeptides and functional properties of the chloroplast usually associated with one or the other of the two photochemical systems (designated PSI and PSII). We have known this by the analysis of the chloroplast membrane polypeptides of the wild type strain of the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardi and of mutant strains derived from it which have lost the capacity to carry out normal photosynthesis. These mutants have been characterized by the loss of particular membrane-bound components of the photosynthetic electron transport chain1,2. This relationship is supported by analysis of the membrane polypeptides obtained from chloroplast fractions of wild type C. reinhardi and spinach enriched for reactions characteristic of either PSI or PSII by fractionation of the membranes either with digitonin3,4 or ‘Triton X-100’5.

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    R. P. LEVINE, WILLIAM G. BURTON & HEATHER A. DURAM

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LEVINE, R., BURTON, W. & DURAM, H. Membrane Polypeptides associated with Photochemical Systems. Nature New Biology 237, 176–177 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio237176a0

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