Medical Definition of Chlorosome
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| Elongated membranous vesicles attached to the plasma membrane of green photosynthetic bacteria, contain the light harvesting antenna complexes of bacteria in the sub Order Chlorobiineae. Pigments include bacteriochlorophylls and carotenoids.
Origin: Gr. Soma = body
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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