Phycobilisome: architecture of a light-harvesting supercomplex

M Watanabe, M Ikeuchi - Photosynthesis research, 2013 - Springer
The phycobilisome (PBS) is an extra-membrane supramolecular complex composed of
many chromophore (bilin)-binding proteins (phycobiliproteins) and linker proteins, which …

[HTML][HTML] Light-induced quinone reduction in photosystem II

F Müh, C Glöckner, J Hellmich, A Zouni - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2012 - Elsevier
The photosystem II core complex is the water: plastoquinone oxidoreductase of oxygenic
photosynthesis situated in the thylakoid membrane of cyanobacteria, algae and plants. It …

[HTML][HTML] The Effect of Silicon on Photosynthesis and Expression of Its Relevant Genes in Rice (Oryza sativa L.) under High-Zinc Stress

A Song, P Li, F Fan, Z Li, Y Liang - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The main objectives of this study were to elucidate the roles of silicon (Si) in alleviating the
effects of 2 mM zinc (high Zn) stress on photosynthesis and its related gene expression …

Structural Diversity in Eukaryotic Photosynthetic Light Harvesting

M Iwai, D Patel-Tupper, KK Niyogi - Annual Review of Plant …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Photosynthesis has been using energy from sunlight to assimilate atmospheric CO2 for at
least 3.5 billion years. Through evolution and natural selection, photosynthetic organisms …

Chloroplast translational regulation uncovers nonessential photosynthesis genes as key players in plant cold acclimation

Y Gao, W Thiele, O Saleh, F Scossa, F Arabi… - The Plant …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Plants evolved efficient multifaceted acclimation strategies to cope with low temperatures.
Chloroplasts respond to temperature stimuli and participate in temperature sensing and …

Investigating the path of plastid genome degradation in an early-transitional clade of heterotrophic orchids, and implications for heterotrophic angiosperms

CF Barrett, JV Freudenstein, J Li… - Molecular Biology …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Parasitic organisms exemplify morphological and genomic reduction. Some heterotrophic,
parasitic plants harbor drastically reduced and degraded plastid genomes resulting from …

[HTML][HTML] Photosystem II, a growing complex: updates on newly discovered components and low molecular mass proteins

LX Shi, M Hall, C Funk, WP Schröder - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2012 - Elsevier
Photosystem II is a unique complex capable of absorbing light and splitting water. The
complex has been thoroughly studied and to date there are more than 40 proteins identified …

[HTML][HTML] A novel thylakoid-less isolate fills a billion-year gap in the evolution of Cyanobacteria

N Rahmatpour, DA Hauser, JM Nelson, PY Chen… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Cyanobacteria have played pivotal roles in Earth's geological history, especially during the
rise of atmospheric oxygen. However, our ability to infer the early transitions in …

Photosystem II does not possess a simple excitation energy funnel: time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy meets theory

Y Shibata, S Nishi, K Kawakami, JR Shen… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The experimentally obtained time-resolved fluorescence spectra of photosystem II (PS II)
core complexes, purified from a thermophilic cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus …

Structural, functional and auxiliary proteins of photosystem II

C Pagliano, G Saracco, J Barber - Photosynthesis research, 2013 - Springer
Photosystem II (PSII) is the water-splitting enzyme complex of photosynthesis and consists of
a large number of protein subunits. Most of these proteins have been structurally and …