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On the structure and function of “chlorosomes” of green bacteria

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An assertion is substantiated that what is widely termed the chlorosomes of green bacteria are not bioparticles, but simply microscopic bacteriochlorophyll c crystals. Apparently, formation of a “chlorosome” represents the first, largely unsuccessful, evolutionary attempt to create a regulatory mechanism that would respond to variations in the intensity of solar light reaching the earth surface. Without bacteriochlorophyll cooperation with proteins, this was a dead end.

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Original Russian Text © A.Y. Borisov, 2012, published in Biofizika, 2012, Vol. 57, No. 4, pp. 733–736.

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Borisov, A.Y. On the structure and function of “chlorosomes” of green bacteria. BIOPHYSICS 57, 562–564 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006350912040021

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