Abstract
The nucleotide sequence was determined for the psaD gene of a thermophilic cyanobacterium, Synechococcus vulcanus, which encoded the PsaD subunit (Subunit II) of the Photosystem I reaction center complex. Except for some differences in the peripherals, the nucleotide sequence of the gene encoding PsaD was identical to that of another thermophilic cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus reported previously. Relationship between these primary structures and thermostability was also discussed.
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Abbreviations
- ORF:
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open reading frame
- PS I:
-
Photosystem I
- SDS-PAGE:
-
sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
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This paper is dedicated to commemorate the late Professor D.I. Arnon with whom the senior author (T.H.) spent five years from 1974 to 1979 as his last postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Cell Physiology, University of California, Berkeley.
The sequence data presented here have been submitted to DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank under the accession number D17355.
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Sue, S., Sugiya, K., Furuki, M. et al. Nucleotide sequence of the psaD gene from the thermophilic cyanobacterium Synechococcus vulcanus . Photosynth Res 46, 265–268 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00020439
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