organellar chromatophore

id: GO:0070111
name: organellar chromatophore
namespace: cellular_component
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: A bacteroid-containing symbiosome in which the bacterial component is a genetically highly reduced cyanobacterium that is photosynthetically active and incapable of an independent existence outside its host. The chromatophore functions as a photosynthetic organelle, and has been found and characterized in the amoeba Paulinella chromatophora.

Parent Functions