Discovery and characterization of a new zinc-bacteriochlorophyll biosynthetic pathway and photosystem in a magnesium-chelatase mutant
Porphyrins, for example heme and chlorophyll, are vital to biological processes such as respiration and photosynthesis. Both cofactors are synthesized through a common pathway to protoporphyrin IX (PPIX) which then branches: Fe²⁺ chelation into the macrocycle by ferrochelatase results in heme format...
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University of British Columbia
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27234 |