About the Authors
- Jiro Harada
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* E-mail: jiro_harada@med.kurume-u.ac.jp (JH); tamiaki@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp (HT)
Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan
- Tadashi Mizoguchi
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Affiliation Graduate School of Life Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan
- Souichirou Satoh
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Current address: Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, Kyoto, Japan
Affiliation Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
- Yusuke Tsukatani
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Affiliations Graduate School of Life Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan, Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan
- Makio Yokono
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Current address: Molecular Photoscience Research Center, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Affiliation Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
- Masato Noguchi
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Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan
- Ayumi Tanaka
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Affiliations Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
- Hitoshi Tamiaki
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* E-mail: jiro_harada@med.kurume-u.ac.jp (JH); tamiaki@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp (HT)
Affiliation Graduate School of Life Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Edited the manuscript: HT JH TM SS YT MY MN AT. Performed the mutational analyses: JH. Contributed spectroscopic analysis of the bchU mutant cells and its extracted pigments: JH TM. Determined the compositions of BChl c homologs in the mutant: TM. Analyzed genomic DNA sequence of Cba limnaeum RK-j-1: JH YT. Performed comparative genome analysis by CCCT program using GSBs genomic data: SS MY. Conceived and designed the experiments: JH MN AT HT. Analyzed the data: JH HT. Wrote the paper: JH HT.