Chlorophyll a interference in phycocyanin and allophycocyanin spectrophotometric quantification

Rosaria Lauceri; Mariano Bresciani; Andrea Lami; Giuseppe Morabito

doi:10.4081/jlimnol.2017.1691

	Chlorophyll a interference in phycocyanin and allophycocyanin spectrophotometric quantification Rosaria Lauceri, Mariano Bresciani, Andrea Lami, Giuseppe Morabito
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2017.1691
Rosaria Lauceri http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6370-3980 National Research Council of Italy, Institute for the Study of Ecosystems, Italy \| r.lauceri@ise.cnr.it Mariano Bresciani http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7185-8464 National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment, Optical Sensing Group, Italy Andrea Lami http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3627-0363 National Research Council of Italy, Institute for the Study of Ecosystems, Italy Giuseppe Morabito National Research Council of Italy, Institute for the Study of Ecosystems, Italy
Abstract The accurate quantification of cyanobacteria phycobiliproteins is an important aspect in various research topics, such as cyanobacteria ecology and physiology studies, and especially to calibrate algorithms used in remote sensing of cyanobacterial blooms. Here we present a spectroscopic approach, exploiting spectrophotometric equations, aimed at improving the phycocyanin and allophycocyanin quantification when chlorophyll a is present in the phycobiliprotein aqueous extract. Keywords Cyanobacteria; phycocyanin; allophycocyanin; chlorophyll a; spectrophotometric equation.
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