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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2010

Exploiting the autofluorescent properties of photosynthetic pigments for analysis of pigmentation and morphology in live Fremyella diplosiphon cells.

Juliana R Bordowitz, Beronda L Montgomery

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Juliana R BordowitzPlant Research Laboratory, Department of Energy, Michigan State University, 106 Plant Biology Building, East Lansing, MI 48824-1312, USA. jbordowitz@ucsd.edu
Beronda L Montgomery
Michigan State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fremyella diplosiphon is a freshwater, filamentous cyanobacterium that exhibits light-dependent regulation of photosynthetic pigment accumulation and cellular and filament morphologies in a well-known process known as complementary chromatic adaptation (CCA). One of the techniques used to investigate the molecular bases of distinct aspects of CCA is confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM). CLSM capitalizes on the autofluorescent properties of cyanobacterial phycobiliproteins and chlorophyll a. We employed CLSM to perform spectral scanning analyses of F. diplosiphon strains grown under distinct light conditions. We report optimized utilization of CLSM to elucidate the molecular basis of the photoregulation of pigment accumulation and morphological responses in F. diplosiphon.

Indexed as

PhotosynthesisPigments, BiologicalCyanobacteriaFluorescenceMicroscopy, ConfocalPigments, Biologicalautofluorescenceconfocal laser scanning microscopycyanobacteriafluorescence imaginglightmicroscopymorphologyphycobiliproteins

Identifiers

PMID22163584
PMCPMC3231140
OpenAlexW1977975811

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