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A Few Notes on Prochloron
















Genome Sequence of Prochloron didemni: an obligate cyanobacterial symbiont of the marine ascidian Lissoclinum patella [The Ravel Laboratory for Microbial Genomics]

Procholoron [CyanoDB.cz]

Photosynthetic unit size, carotenoids, and chlorophyll-protein composition of Prochloron sp., a prokaryotic green alga [1978]





I became interested in Prochloron in 1983/4. I was working in Bob Hoshaw's Algal Research Laboratory at the time, primarily maintaining his extensive collection of Spirogyra isolates. Robert W. Hoshaw Scholarship [1993]. Here's a photomicrograph I took of Prochloron at the time, which I'd collected at Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico:

Prochloron


Genotypic relationships between Prochloron samples from different localities and hosts as determined by DNA-DNA reassociations [1985]

Nomenclature of Prochloron didernni (Lewin 1977) sp. nov., norn. rev. ? Prochloron (Lewin 1976) gen. nov. , norn. rev.? Prochloraceae fam. nov., Prochlorales ord. nov., norn. rev. in the class Photobacteria Gibbons and Murray 1978 [1986]

Sequence of Prochloron didemni atpBE and the inference of chloroplast origins [1991]

Light-harvesting chlorophyll c-like pigment in Prochloron [1993]

Isolation and characterisation of oxygen evolving thylakoids from the marine prokaryote Prochloron didemni [1999]

Structure of a photosystem II supercomplex isolated from Prochloron didemni retaining its chlorophyll a/b light-harvesting system [2003]

Patellamide A and C biosynthesis by a microcin-like pathway in Prochloron didemni, the cyanobacterial symbiont of Lissoclinum patella [2005]


1 comment:

  1. Funny, just the other day I read in the Transhumanist Magazine that cyanobacteria could be used in future attempts to colonize Mars or the Moon as filters, air-purifiers if you will. Interesting stuff. And now enter prochloron which, as I understand, is closely related to these beneficient bacteria. I always had a verve for the scientific but I turned out a mad humanist. You are a rare and lucky man to have made the best of both hemispheres.

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