Phycobiliproteins: Molecular structure, production, applications, and prospects

W Li, HN Su, Y Pu, J Chen, LN Liu, Q Liu, S Qin - Biotechnology Advances, 2019 - Elsevier
Phycobiliproteins (PBPs) are the main component of light-harvesting complexes in
cyanobacteria and red algae. In addition to their important role in photosynthesis, PBPs …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in production, purification and applications of phycobiliproteins

RR Sonani, RP Rastogi, R Patel… - World journal of …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
An obligatory sunlight requirement for photosynthesis has exposed cyanobacteria to
different quantity and quality of light. Cyanobacteria can exhibit efficient photosynthesis over …

Structural and photophysical characterization of the small ultra-red fluorescent protein

A Maiti, CZ Buffalo, S Saurabh… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The small Ultra-Red Fluorescent Protein (smURFP) represents a new class of
fluorescent protein with exceptional photostability and brightness derived from …

Helical allophycocyanin nanotubes absorb far-red light in a thermophilic cyanobacterium

CJ Gisriel, E Elias, G Shen, NT Soulier, DA Flesher… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
To compete in certain low-light environments, some cyanobacteria express a paralog of the
light-harvesting phycobiliprotein, allophycocyanin (AP), that strongly absorbs far-red light …

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 …

Structure of phycobilisomes

SF Sui - Annual Review of Biophysics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Phycobilisomes (PBSs) are extremely large chromophore–protein complexes on the stromal
side of the thylakoid membrane in cyanobacteria and red algae. The main function of PBSs …

Structural comparison of allophycocyanin variants reveals the molecular basis for their spectral differences

CJ Gisriel, E Elias, G Shen, NT Soulier… - Photosynthesis …, 2023 - Springer
Allophycocyanins are phycobiliproteins that absorb red light and transfer the energy to the
reaction centers of oxygenic photosynthesis in cyanobacteria and red algae. Recently, it was …

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 …

Bacterial phytochromes, cyanobacteriochromes and allophycocyanins as a source of near-infrared fluorescent probes

OS Oliinyk, KG Chernov, VV Verkhusha - International Journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Bacterial photoreceptors absorb light energy and transform it into intracellular signals that
regulate metabolism. Bacterial phytochrome photoreceptors (BphPs), some …