How the Chlorophyll-Proteins got their Names.

This is the story of how we started studying the green bands seen on SDS-polyacrylamide gels of thylakoid membranes dissociated with the non-ionic detergent beta-octyl-D-glucopyranoside. We explain some of the complications we and other workers encountered along the pathway to untangling the chlorophyll-protein complexes of higher plants, and give a concise summary of the complexes, their polypeptides and their genes.