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Plastocyanin

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Photosynthesis I

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology ((PLANT,volume 5))

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Plastocyanin is a copper protein which was first discovered in the green alga, Chlorella ellipsoidea (Katoh, 1960). It is now established that the protein functions as an electron carrier between photosystems I and II of chloroplasts. The protein was designated plastocyanin because of its localization in chloroplasts and its blue color in the oxidized form (Katoh and Takamiya, 1961).

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Katoh, S. (1977). Plastocyanin. In: Trebst, A., Avron, M. (eds) Photosynthesis I. Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66505-9_17

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