Inorganic carbon acquisition systems in cyanobacteria

Teruo Ogawa*, Aaron Kaplan

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This minireview focuses on the mechanism of inorganic carbon uptake in cyanobacteria and in particular the two CO2-uptake systems and two bicarbonate transporters recently identified in Synechocycstis PCC 6803, and their presence in other cyanobacterial strains.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)105-115
Number of pages11
JournalPhotosynthesis Research
Volume77
Issue number2-3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2003

Keywords

  • CO uptake
  • CO-concentrating mechanism
  • Cyanobacteria
  • HCO transport
  • NADPH dehydrogenase

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