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 …

[HTML][HTML] Photosystem II subunit S (PsbS): a nano regulator of plant photosynthesis

WM Valencia, A Pandit - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Light is required for photosynthesis, but plants are often exposed to excess light, which can
lead to photodamage and eventually cell death. To prevent this, they evolved …

Reversible changes in structure and function of photosynthetic apparatus of pea (Pisum sativum) leaves under drought stress

J Pandey, E Devadasu, D Saini, K Dhokne… - The Plant …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The effects of drought on photosynthesis have been extensively studied, whereas those on
thylakoid organization are limited. We observed a significant decline in gas exchange …

Single-walled carbon nanotubes modify leaf micromorphology, chloroplast ultrastructure and photosynthetic activity of pea plants

V Velikova, N Petrova, L Kovács, A Petrova… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) emerge as promising novel carbon-based
nanoparticles for use in biomedicine, pharmacology and precision agriculture. They were …

Protein–protein interactions induce pH-dependent and zeaxanthin-independent photoprotection in the plant light-harvesting complex, LHCII

M Son, R Moya, A Pinnola, R Bassi… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Plants use energy from the sun yet also require protection against the generation of
deleterious photoproducts from excess energy. Photoprotection in green plants, known as …

[HTML][HTML] Altered lipid acyl chain length controls energy dissipation in light-harvesting complex II proteoliposomes by hydrophobic mismatch

DH Li, S Wilson, G Mastroianni, AV Ruban - Journal of Photochemistry and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In plants, the major light-harvesting antenna complex (LHCII) is vital for both light harvesting
and photoprotection in photosystem II. Previously, we proposed that the thylakoid membrane …

Architecture and functional regulation of a plant PSII-LHCII megacomplex

J Shan, DM Niedzwiedzki, RS Tomar, Z Liu, H Liu - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Photosystem II (PSII) splits water in oxygenic photosynthesis on Earth. The structure and
function of the C4S4M2-type PSII-LHCII (light-harvesting complex II) megacomplexes from …

A perspective on the major light-harvesting complex dynamics under the effect of pH, salts, and the photoprotective PsbS protein

E Navakoudis, T Stergiannakos, V Daskalakis - Photosynthesis Research, 2023 - Springer
The photosynthetic apparatus is a highly modular assembly of large pigment-binding
proteins. Complexes called antennae can capture the sunlight and direct it from the …

Identification of distinct pH- and zeaxanthin-dependent quenching in LHCSR3 from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

JM Troiano, F Perozeni, R Moya, L Zuliani, K Baek… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Under high light, oxygenic photosynthetic organisms avoid photodamage by thermally
dissipating absorbed energy, which is called nonphotochemical quenching. In green algae …

Chlorophyll-induced lamellar to nonlamellar phase transitions and dynamical heterogeneity in plant thylakoid membranes

S Sahu, R Saini, A Debnath - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2024 - ACS Publications
Chlorophyll a (CLA) pigments and thylakoid membranes are crucial components of plants
for photosynthesis. To understand the effect of CLA on the structure and dynamics of …