Biochemical composition of algae
Composition by major class of compound
A crude estimate of the major biochemical components found in algae would be:
| COMPONENT |
% OF TOTAL CELL |
| lipid |
20 |
| carbohydrate |
20 |
| protein |
50 |
| nucleic acids |
05 |
| chlorophyll |
<05 |
| |
|
List of the biochemical components
Below is a partial list of the biochemical components in an algal cell.
- outer cell wall
- outer cell membrane
- plasmalemma membrane
- prokaryotic cell wall
- eukaryotic cell wall
- thylakoid membrane
- phycobilisomes
- ribosomes
- RNA polymerase
- DNA strands
- glycogen
- starch
- tRNA molecules
- monosaccharides
- amino acids
- nucleotides
- fatty acids
- choloroplast
- photosystem I
- cytochrome b6/f complex
- photosystem II
- coupling factor - ATP synthetase
- chlorophyll
- phycobiliproteins
- RuBisCO
- other Calvin Cycle enzymes
- outer chloroplast membranes
- phosphofructokinase
- other glycolysis enzymes
- mitochondria
- pryruvate dehydrogenase
- citric acid cycle enzymes (8)
- NADH dehydrogenase
- Coenzyme Q
- cytochrome b-c1
- cytochrome c
- cytochrome oxidase complex
- amino acid biosynthesis pathway enzymes
- nucleotide biosynthesis pathway enzymes
- fatty acid synthesis pathway enzymes
- fatty acid degradation pathway enzymes
- RNA polymerase
- mRNA molecules
- Ribosomes
- tRNA
- set of tRNA syntetase enzymes
- nucleus
- DNA polymerase
- prokaryotic chromosome
- plasmids
- eukaryotic chromosomes
- microfilaments