Table 2.

Thylakoid Membrane Proteins in Chlamydomonas.

Protein	MW (kDa)a	Photosynthetic complex	Associated carotenoidsab	Genome	Source of protein for antiserumc
D1	32d	PS II	9	Chloroplast	Arabidopsis
Rieske Fe–S	18.6e	Cyt b6f	1	Nuclear	1. Arabidopsis2. Spinach
Cyt f	31.8e	Cyt b6f	1	Chloroplast	1. Cyanobacterium2. Chlamydomonas
CF1α	50f	ATP synthase	0	Chloroplast	Arabidopsis
CF1β	55f	ATP synthase	0	Chloroplast	Chlamydomonas
CF0-suIII	5.5f	ATP synthase	0	Chloroplast	Chlamydomonas

^ade Vitry and Vallon, 1999; Choquet and Vallon, 2000.

^bAli, K., Evans, M., and Purton, S. (2004). The requirement of carotenoids for the stable assembly of the photosynthetic complexes. 13th International Congress on Photosynthesis, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Aug. 30–Sept. 3, 2004. Poster P2A–21, abstract number 201.

^cSee Methods.

^dde Vitry et al., 1991.

^ePierre et al., 1995.

^fLemaire and Wollman, 1989.