Structure of a monomeric photosystem II core complex from a cyanobacterium acclimated to far-red light reveals the functions of chlorophylls d and f

CJ Gisriel, G Shen, MY Ho, V Kurashov… - Journal of Biological …, 2022 - ASBMB
Far-red light (FRL) photoacclimation in cyanobacteria provides a selective growth
advantage for some terrestrial cyanobacteria by expanding the range of photosynthetically …

Phycobilisomes and phycobiliproteins in the pigment apparatus of oxygenic photosynthetics: from cyanobacteria to tertiary endosymbiosis

IN Stadnichuk, VV Kusnetsov - International Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Eukaryotic photosynthesis originated in the course of evolution as a result of the uptake of
some unstored cyanobacterium and its transformation to chloroplasts by an ancestral …

Structure of a dimeric photosystem II complex from a cyanobacterium acclimated to far-red light

CJ Gisriel, G Shen, DA Flesher, V Kurashov… - Journal of Biological …, 2023 - ASBMB
Photosystem II (PSII) is the water-splitting enzyme central to oxygenic photosynthesis. To
drive water oxidation, light is harvested by accessory pigments, mostly chlorophyll (Chl) a …

How nature designs light-harvesting antenna systems: design principles and functional realization in chlorophototrophic prokaryotes

DA Bryant, DP Canniffe - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Chlorophyll-based phototrophs, or chlorophototrophs, convert light energy into stored
chemical potential energy using two types of photochemical reaction center (RC), denoted …

How can Phycobilisome, the unique light harvesting system in certain algae working highly efficiently: The connection in between structures and functions

R Liu, ZH Zhen, W Li, B Ge, S Qin - Progress in Biophysics and Molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
Algae, which are ubiquitous in ecosystems, have evolved a variety of light-harvesting
complexes to better adapt to diverse habitats. Phycobilisomes/phycobiliproteins, unique to …

Extensive remodeling of the photosynthetic apparatus alters energy transfer among photosynthetic complexes when cyanobacteria acclimate to far-red light

MY Ho, DM Niedzwiedzki… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2020 - Elsevier
Some cyanobacteria remodel their photosynthetic apparatus by a process known as Far-
Red Light Photoacclimation (FaRLiP). Specific subunits of the phycobilisome (PBS) …

Structure of cyanobacterial phycobilisome core revealed by structural modeling and chemical cross-linking

H Liu, MM Zhang, DA Weisz, M Cheng, HB Pakrasi… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
In cyanobacteria and red algae, the structural basis dictating efficient excitation energy
transfer from the phycobilisome (PBS) antenna complex to the reaction centers remains …

Complementary chromatic and far-red photoacclimations in Synechococcus ATCC 29403 (PCC 7335). I: The phycobilisomes, a proteomic approach

P Herrera-Salgado, LE Leyva-Castillo… - Photosynthesis …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Synechococcus ATCC 29403 (PCC 7335) is a unicellular cyanobacterium isolated
from Puerto Peñasco, Sonora Mexico. This cyanobacterium performs complementary …

Features of protein− protein interactions in the cyanobacterial photoprotection mechanism

NN Sluchanko, YB Slonimskiy, EG Maksimov - Biochemistry (Moscow), 2017 - Springer
Photoprotective mechanisms of cyanobacteria are characterized by several features
associated with the structure of their water-soluble antenna complexes–the phycobilisomes …

Biological advantage of the arrangements of C-phycocyanin chromophores in phycobilisome from the electronic energy transfer viewpoint

K Mishima, M Shoji, Y Umena… - Bulletin of the Chemical …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In the present study, we report the electronic energy transfer (EET) rate and the EET
dynamics in the hexamer of C-phycocyanin (C-PC). The EET rate for the Förster theory was …