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WE have shown that both carbon atoms of glycine were incorporated into chlorophyll a when Chlorella vulgaris was incubated with 14C-glycine for a period of 1 hr. During this period no carbon-14 from the carboxyl group could be detected in chlorophyll b, whereas the incorporation of the carbon from the methylene group was several times higher than in the case of chlorophyll a. Only after longer periods of incubation with l-14C-glycine was the isotope found in chlorophyll b as well.
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BRZESKI, W., RÜCKER, W. Biosynthesis of Chlorophylls a and b in Chlorella vulgaris . Nature 185, 922–923 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185922a0
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