Functional assembly of the foreign carotenoid lycopene into the photosynthetic apparatus of Rhodobacter sphaeroides, achieved by replacement of the native 3-step phytoene desaturase with its 4-step counterpart from Erwinia herbicola.

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Published in Mol Microbiol on April 01, 2002

Authors

Guillermo Garcia-Asua1, Richard J Cogdell, C Neil Hunter

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

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