Shedding light on photosynthesis
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 08:30
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine being able to monitor protein expression levels in a cell as they change over time and in response to external stimuli. That is just what researchers did when they studied the photosynthetic blue-green algae, Cyanothece 51142, as part of the Membrane Biology Scientific Grand Challenge at EMSL. The Challenge's team members from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Washington University in St. Louis measured dynamic changes in protein expression within Cyanothece when it performed photosynthesis.