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Permeabilized Cyanobacteria: A Model System for Photosynthetic and Biotechnological Studies

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Techniques and New Developments in Photosynthesis Research

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The cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) is the largest group of phototrophs in the superkingdom Prokaryotae (Stanier and Cohen Bazire, 1977). Micropalaeontology places their origin in the middle of the Precambrian Eon, some 2.8–3.5 billion years ago, but it has not been able to decide yet whether filamentous or unicellular varieties appeared first (Schopf and Walter, 1982). Those archaeic cyanobacteria were the first photoautotrophs on our planet that were endowed with an oxygenic photosynthetic machine, and so they are credited with the enrichment of Earth’s atmosphere in oxygen.

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Papageorgiou, G.C. (1989). Permeabilized Cyanobacteria: A Model System for Photosynthetic and Biotechnological Studies. In: Barber, J., Malkin, R. (eds) Techniques and New Developments in Photosynthesis Research. NATO ASI Series, vol 168. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8571-4_52

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