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SUBMITTER: Nagarajan A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6722726 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nagarajan Aparna A Zhou Mowei M Nguyen Amelia Y AY Liberton Michelle M Kedia Komal K Shi Tujin T Piehowski Paul P Shukla Anil A Fillmore Thomas L TL Nicora Carrie C Smith Richard D RD Koppenaal David W DW Jacobs Jon M JM Pakrasi Himadri B HB
Biomolecules 20190816 8
Phycobilisomes (PBSs) are large (3-5 megadalton) pigment-protein complexes in cyanobacteria that associate with thylakoid membranes and harvest light primarily for photosystem II. PBSs consist of highly ordered assemblies of pigmented phycobiliproteins (PBPs) and linker proteins that can account for up to half of the soluble protein in cells. Cyanobacteria adjust to changing environmental conditions by modulating PBS size and number. In response to nutrient depletion such as nitrogen (N) depriva ...[more]