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Lutein-5,6-epoxide aycle: A new xanthophyll cycle in higher plant chloroplasts

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The published data and the general characteristics of the lutein-5,6-epoxide cycle identified recently in higher plants are reviewed. The localization of the cycle in chloroplast membranes and its light-dependent activity are compared to the corresponding parameters of the well-studied widely occurring violaxanthin cycle. It is suggested that these cycles involve either the same enzymes, violaxanthin de-epoxidase and zeaxanthin epoxidase, or non-mutated and mutated forms of the same enzyme (violaxanthin de-epoxidase and zeaxanthin epoxidase).

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Original Russian Text © V.G. Ladygin, 2008, published in Biologicheskie Membrany, 2008, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 163–172.

An erratum to this article can be found online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/S1990747809030520

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Ladygin, V.G. Lutein-5,6-epoxide aycle: A new xanthophyll cycle in higher plant chloroplasts. Biochem. Moscow Suppl. Ser. A 2, 110–118 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1990747808020037

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