Chromatophore (bacteria)

In some forms of photosynthetic bacteria, a chromatophore is a pigmented(coloured), membrane-associated vesicle used to perform photosynthesis. They contain different coloured pigments.

Chromatophores contain bacteriochlorophyll pigments and carotenoids. In purple bacteria, such as Rhodospirillum rubrum, the light-harvesting proteins are intrinsic to the chromatophore membranes. However, in green sulfur bacteria, they are arranged in specialised antenna complexes called chlorosomes.

References

1. Chromatophore (disambiguation)
2. Purple sulfur bacteria
3. Paulinella
4. Photophore
5. Blue-ringed octopus
6. Chlorosome
7. Biological pigment
8. Symbiogenesis
9. Plastid
10. Animal coloration
11. Cyanobacteria
12. Organelle
13. Squid
14. Konstantin Mereschkowski
15. Venomous fish
16. Bacterial cell structure
17. Fluorescence
18. Melanosome
19. Albinism
20. Rhodobacter sphaeroides