Chlorophyll c1 is a form of chlorophyll. It makes a golden or brownish color and is an accessory pigment. It helps the organism gather light and passes a quanta of excitation energy through the light harvesting antennae to the photosynthetic reaction centre. Chlorophyll c is unusual because it does not have an isoprenoid tail, and ring D is not reduced (these features are typical of the other chlorophylls commonly found in algae and plants. Chlorophyll c is found in certain marine algae, such as diatoms and dinoflagellates. (Blankenship, 2002, Molecular Mechanisms of Photosynthesis)
See Also Chlorophyll
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Types of tetrapyrroles
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Bilanes
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- Bilirubin
- Biliverdin
- Stercobilinogen
- Stercobilin
- Urobilinogen
- Urobilin
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Phytobilins
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Phycobilins
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- Phycoerythrobilin
- Phycocyanobilin
- Phycourobilin
- Phycoviolobilin
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Corrinoids
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- Methylcobalamin
- Adenosylcobalamin
- Cyanocobalamin
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Porphyrins
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Protoporphyrins
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- Protoporphyrin IX
- Heme (b, c, a, o)
- Zinc protoporphyrin
- Magnesium protoporphyrin
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Phytoporphyrins
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- Chlorophyll c1
- Chlorophyll c2
- Protochlorophyllide
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Reduced
porphyrins
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Porphyrinogens
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- Uroporphyrinogen (I, III)
- Coproporphyrinogen (I, III)
- Protoporphyrinogen IX
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Chlorins
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- Chlorophyllide (a, b)
- Chlorophyll (a, b)
- Phaeophytin (a, b)
- Bacteriochlorophyll c
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Bacteriochlorins
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Isobacteriochlorins
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- Siroheme
- Sirohydrochlorin
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Corphins
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- biochemical families: carbohydrates
- alcohols
- glycoproteins
- glycosides
- lipids
- eicosanoids
- fatty acids / intermediates
- phospholipids
- sphingolipids
- steroids
- nucleic acids
- constituents / intermediates
- proteins
- amino acids / intermediates
- tetrapyrroles / intermediates
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Types of plant pigments
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| Flavonoids |
- Anthocyanins
- Anthocyanidins
- Anthoxanthins
- Condensed tannins
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| Betalains |
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| Carotenoids |
- Carotenes
- Retinoids
- Xanthophylls
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| Other |
- Chlorophyll (a, b, c1, c2, d, f)
- Allophycocyanin
- Phycocyanin
- Phycoerythrin
- Phycoerythrocyanin
- Quinones
- Xanthonoids
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