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Reminiscence about‘Chloropseudomonas ethylicum’ and the FMO-protein

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In 1961 the green sulfur bacterium-containing mixed culture known as‘Chloropseudomonas ethylicum’ was brought to Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA) from Moscow State University (USSR). The water-soluble bacteriochlorophylla-protein (FMO-protein) was extracted, purified and characterized by absorption and circular dichroism spectroscopy, by X-ray crystallography and by primary structure determination.

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Abbreviations

BChl:

bacteriochlorophyll

CD:

circular dichroism

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Olson, J.M. Reminiscence about‘Chloropseudomonas ethylicum’ and the FMO-protein. Photosynth Res 41, 3–5 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02184138

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