Enhancing the light reactions of photosynthesis: Strategies, controversies, and perspectives

D Leister - Molecular Plant, 2023 - cell.com
Photosynthesis is central to life on Earth, employing sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to
produce chemical energy and oxygen. It is generally accepted that boosting its efficiency …

Changing color for photoprotection: the orange carotenoid protein

F Muzzopappa, D Kirilovsky - Trends in Plant Science, 2020 - cell.com
Under high irradiance, light becomes dangerous for photosynthetic organisms and they
must protect themselves. Cyanobacteria have developed a simple mechanism, involving a …

In situ cryo-ET structure of phycobilisome–photosystem II supercomplex from red alga

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 …

Revisiting cyanobacterial state transitions

PI Calzadilla, D Kirilovsky - Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Photosynthetic organisms are exposed to a fluctuating environment in which light intensity
and quality change continuously. Specific illumination of either photosystem (PSI or PSII) …

Structural framework for the understanding spectroscopic and functional signatures of the cyanobacterial Orange Carotenoid Protein families

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 …

A primordial orange carotenoid protein: structure, photoswitching activity and evolutionary aspects

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 …

On the interface of light-harvesting antenna complexes and reaction centers in oxygenic photosynthesis

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 …

Characterization of molecular diversity and organization of phycobilisomes in thermophilic cyanobacteria

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 …

Cyanobacterial phycobilisome allostery as revealed by quantitative mass spectrometry

H Liu - Biochemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
Phycobilisomes (PBSs) are the major photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes in
cyanobacteria and red algae. PBS, a multisubunit protein complex, has two major interfaces …

AlphaFold and structural mass spectrometry enable interrogations on the intrinsically disordered regions in cyanobacterial light-harvesting complex phycobilisome

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 …