@inproceedings{df664b45fc0e418b91b5bbf87ae4418a,
title = "Effects of glucose assimilation on lutein and chlorophyll biosyntheses in the green alga chlorella pyrenoidosa",
abstract = "Glucose assimilation caused a significant decrease of lutein and chlorophyll accumulation in Chlorella pyrenoidosa cultivated in low nitrogen medium, which are in line with the previously reported glucose-bleaching effect on the green alga Chlorella protothecoides cultivated in nitrogen deficient medium. Our study showed that an excessive lipid production induced by nitrogen deficiency was expected to be responsible for the decrease of lutein and chlorophyll accumulation in C. pyrenoidosa under heterotrophic conditions. When C. pyrenoidosa was cultivated in high nitrogen medium, the lutein and chlorophyll biosyntheses acted very differently: lutein content still decreased markedly whereas chlorophyll content remained stable. In addition, when we inhibited chlorophyll biosynthesis with levulinic acid, the chlorophyll a (chl a) and chlorophyll b (chl b) contents decreased markedly, but the lutein biosynthesis was not influenced at all. It was concluded that lutein and chlorophyll biosyntheses were possibly not coordinated in C. pyrenoidosa under heterotrophic conditions.",
keywords = "Chlorella pyrenoidosa, Chlorophyll, Heterotrophic, Lutein",
author = "Tao Li and Liu, {Yi Han} and Lu, {Fu Ping} and Yue Jiang",
note = "The research was supported by Research Grant Council of Hong Kong SAR. The TEM experiment was conducted in EM unit of the University of Hong Kong. We would like to thank for their assistance. Publisher copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg; 2012 International Conference on Applied Biotechnology, ICAB 2012 ; Conference date: 18-10-2012 Through 19-10-2012",
year = "2013",
month = nov,
day = "24",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-37922-2_101",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783642379215",
volume = "2",
series = "Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering",
publisher = "Springer Berlin Heidelberg",
pages = "943--954",
editor = "Tong-Cun Zhang and Pingkai Ouyang and Samuel Kaplan and Bill Skarnes",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Applied Biotechnology, ICAB 2012",
edition = "1st",
}
