| Aa | amino acid residues |
| ALA | 5-aminolevulinic acid |
| ALAD | 5-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase |
| BiFC | bimolecular fluorescence complementation |
| BLAST | Basic Local Alignment Search Tool |
| CHLG | chlorophyll synthase |
| CHLI | subunit of the Mg chelatase |
| CHLM | Mg protoporphyrin methyltransferase |
| DTT | dithiothreitol |
| GluTR | glutamyl-tRNA reductase |
| GSAAT | glutamate-1-semialdehyde aminotransferase |
| mPEG-MAL | methoxypolyethylene glycol maleimide 5000 |
| NEM | N-ethylmaleimide |
| NTRC | NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase C |
| PBG | porphobilinogen |
| POR | protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase |
| PPOX1/2 | protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase |
| ROS | reactive oxygen species |
| RuBisCo1,5 | ribulose-bisphosphate carboxylase large subunit |
| TBS | tetrapyrrole biosynthesis |
| TRX | thioredoxin |
| YFP | yellow-fluorescence protein |