Journal article

Authors list: JAHN, W; STEINBISS, J; ZETSCHE, K

Publication year: 1984

Pages: 536-539

Journal: Planta

Volume number: 161

Issue number: 6

ISSN: 0032-0935

eISSN: 1432-2048

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00407086

Publisher: Springer

Abstract: 
In the unicellular red algae P. cruentum and P. aerugineum the phycobiliprotein content of the plastids is regulated by the applied energy fluence rate. Cells cultured at low energy fluence rates (200 .mu.W cm-2) possess up to 3 times more phycobiliproteins than cells grown at high energy fluence rates (3200 .mu.W cm-2). These values were obtained by direct measurement of the apoprotein of the phycobiliproteins. Transfer of cells from low to high energy fluence rates and vice versa results in an adaptation of the phycobiliprotein content to the new light conditions. This process starts immediately after the transfer of the cells and requires several days. On the other hand, the amount of the enzyme ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase, which is also a prominent protein of the plastids of red algae, does not change significantly in response to differing fluence rates.

Harvard Citation style: JAHN, W., STEINBISS, J. and ZETSCHE, K. (1984) LIGHT-INTENSITY ADAPTATION OF THE PHYCOBILIPROTEIN CONTENT OF THE RED ALGA PORPHYRIDIUM, Planta, 161(6), pp. 536-539. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00407086

APA Citation style: JAHN, W., STEINBISS, J., & ZETSCHE, K. (1984). LIGHT-INTENSITY ADAPTATION OF THE PHYCOBILIPROTEIN CONTENT OF THE RED ALGA PORPHYRIDIUM. Planta. 161(6), 536-539. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00407086