Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Chloroplasts Contain a Homodimeric Pyruvate:Ferredoxin Oxidoreductase That Functions with FDX11[W][OA]
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Unité de Bioénergétique et Ingénierie des Protéines-Unité Mixte de Recherche 7281, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Aix-Marseille Université, 13402 Marseille, France (R.v.L., C.B., W.N., A.A.); Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, Institut de Recherches en Technologies et Sciences pour le Vivant, Laboratoire Biologie à Grande Echelle, 38054 Grenoble, France (Y.C.); Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, U1038, 38054 Grenoble, France (Y.C.); and Université Joseph Fourier, 38000 Grenoble cedex 09, France (Y.C.)
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Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplasts contain a homodimeric pyruvate:ferredoxin oxidoreductase that functions with FDX1.
Eukaryotic algae have long been known to live in anoxic environments, but interest in their anaerobic energy metabolism has only recently gained momentum, largely due to their utility in biofuel production. Chlamydomonas reinhardtii figures remarkably in this respect, because it efficiently produces hydrogen and its genome harbors many genes for anaerobic metabolic routes. Central to anaerobic ...
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