Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2021 Apr 28;12:663309. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.663309

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

Copyright © 2021 Solymosi and Mysliwa-Kurdziel.

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

PMC Copyright notice

The scheme of chlorophyll (Chl) biosynthesis in angiosperms. Reactions of the tetrapyrrole ring formation route (1–6) are catalyzed by: (1) Mg-chelatase, (2) protoporphyrin IX methyltransferase, (3) Mg protoporphyrin IX monomethyl ester (oxidative) cyclase, (4) light-dependent NADPH:protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase, (5) divinyl reductase, (6) chlorophyllide oxygenase, (7) chlorophyll synthase, (8) geranylgeranyl reductase. (*) Divinyl reductase (5) can also convert the indicated divinyl group to a monovinyl group in protochlorophyllide molecule. (#) Methyl group in Chl a, and formyl group in Chl b. Reactions of the isoprenoid chain formation (9–11) are catalyzed by geranyl diphosphate and geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthases. See text for further explanations.