Under high irradiance, light becomes dangerous for photosynthetic organisms and they must protect themselves. Cyanobacteria have developed a simple mechanism, involving a …
M Li, J Ma, X Li, SF Sui - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Phycobilisome (PBS) is the main light-harvesting antenna in cyanobacteria and red algae. How PBS transfers the light energy to photosystem II (PSII) remains to be elucidated. Here …
Photosynthetic organisms are exposed to a fluctuating environment in which light intensity and quality change continuously. Specific illumination of either photosystem (PSI or PSII) …
NN Sluchanko, EG Maksimov, YB Slonimskiy… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Orange Carotenoid Protein (OCP) is a unique photoreceptor crucial for cyanobacterial photoprotection. Best studied Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 OCP belongs to …
YB Slonimskiy, AO Zupnik, LA Varfolomeeva… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cyanobacteria are photosynthesizing prokaryotes responsible for the Great Oxygenation Event on Earth~ 2.5 Ga years ago. They use a specific photoprotective mechanism based on …
H Liu, RE Blankenship - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2019 - Elsevier
Photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes (PPCs) accomplish light-energy capture and photochemistry in natural photosynthesis. In this review, we examine three pigment protein …
J Tang, H Zhou, D Yao, L Du, M Daroch - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Thermophilic cyanobacteria are cosmopolitan and abundant in the thermal environment. Their light-harvesting complexes, phycobilisomes (PBS), are highly important in …
Phycobilisomes (PBSs) are the major photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes in cyanobacteria and red algae. PBS, a multisubunit protein complex, has two major interfaces …
H Liu - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Intrinsically disordered proteins/regions (IDPRs) are a very large and functionally important class of proteins that participate in weak multivalent interactions in protein complexes. They …