Many more than three groups of pigments are recognized, and each class of algae shares a common set of pigment types distinct from those of all other groups.
In comparison, the set of pigment-associated genes (see below) had average absolute differences in the number of mapped reads (as a proportion of the total number of mapped reads) of 3.80×10-3 for T. californicum (135 times that of the HK genes) and 1.86×10-3 for T. grallator (66 times the HK genes).
MITF, generally believed to play a primary role in melanocyte stem-cell proliferation and expression of a set of pigment-related genes [ 40], has been shown to be amplified in a small percentage (10 to 20%) of melanomas, and seems to confer a poor prognosis when overexpressed [ 41].
Comparative tests using the novel analytical tool and an alternative setup based on a commercial Raman probe were carried out on a set of pure pigments and oil paint layers, which allowed assessing the significantly higher efficiency and reliability of the former with respect to the latter.
As a result, the position and probability of their fluorescence transition delicately depends on the precise realization of the disorder of the set of bound pigments, which is governed by the LH protein dynamics.
To protect the eye from the high energy radiation the RPE cells are equipped with the specialised set of various pigments which absorb part of light and thus constitute a radiation filter for cells (Beatty et al. 1999, 2000, 2001).
Despite a close relationship originally indicated by comparative analyses of 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes, Prochlorococcus is distinguished from the Synechococcus among other things by a unique set of photosynthetic pigments, different light-harvesting apparatus, tiny size, and better ability to grow in oligotrophic waters (Partensky et al. 1999).
In a set of 24 pigmented lesions that were originally misdiagnosed as being either benign or malignant, the pattern of staining of these five markers correctly classified 18 of the 24 lesions (75%).
That is, each of these species utilizes the complete set of six cone pigments (RH2aα and RH2aβ pooled because of genetic and functional similarity [ 10, 19]).
