Oxygenic photosynthesis in far-red light: strategies and mechanisms

E Elias, TJ Oliver, R Croce - Annual Review of Physical …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Oxygenic photosynthesis, the process that converts light energy into chemical energy, is
traditionally associated with the absorption of visible light by chlorophyll molecules …

The structural basis for light harvesting in organisms producing phycobiliproteins

DA Bryant, CJ Gisriel - The Plant Cell, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Cyanobacteria, red algae, and cryptophytes produce two classes of proteins for light-
harvesting: water-soluble phycobiliproteins and membrane-intrinsic proteins that bind …

Structure of the antenna complex expressed during far-red light photoacclimation in Synechococcus sp. PCC 7335

CJ Gisriel, G Shen, GW Brudvig, DA Bryant - Journal of Biological …, 2024 - ASBMB
Far-red light photoacclimation, or FaRLiP, is a facultative response exhibited by some
cyanobacteria that allows them to absorb and utilize lower energy light (700–800 nm) than …

Intramolecular charge transfer and the function of vibronic excitons in photosynthetic light harvesting

WF Beck - Photosynthesis Research, 2024 - Springer
A widely discussed explanation for the prevalence of pairs or clusters of closely spaced
electronic chromophores in photosynthetic light-harvesting proteins is the presence of …

Energetic landscape and terminal emitters of phycobilisome cores from quantum chemical modeling

L Cupellini, M Gwizdala, T Kruger - 2024 - chemrxiv.org
Phycobilisomes (PBs) are giant antenna supercomplexes of cyanobacteria that use
phycobilin pigments to capture sunlight and transfer the collected energy to membrane …

Coloring Outside The Lines: Harvesting far-red photons for photosynthesis

EGM Elias - 2024 - research.vu.nl
Plants photosynthesize with light that falls within the Photosynthetically Active Radiation
(PAR, 400-700 nm) and this limits the rate of photosynthesis of leaves in the shade. In an …

The globins of cyanobacteria and green algae: An update

JTJ Lecomte, EA Johnson - Advances in microbial …, 2024 - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The globin superfamily of proteins is ancient and diverse. Regular assessments based on
the increasing number of available genome sequences have elaborated on a complex …