ReviewBiomolecules2019
What Happened to the Phycobilisome?
Review in Biomolecules, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.
- Insights into the phylogenetic, structural and functional evolution ofPlant diversity · 2026Article
- Archaean green-light environments drove the evolution of cyanobacteria's light-harvesting system.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
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- Structure, biogenesis, and evolution of thylakoid membranes.The Plant cell · 2024Review
- The structural basis for light harvesting in organisms producing phycobiliproteins.The Plant cell · 2024Review
- The synthetic future of algal genomes.Cell genomics · 2024Review
- Solar energy conversion by photosystem II: principles and structures.Photosynthesis research · 2023Review
- Effect of micronutrient iron on bioactive compounds isolated from cryptophytes.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- Controllable Phycobilin Modification: An Alternative Photoacclimation Response in Cryptophyte Algae.ACS central science · 2022Article
- Here comes the sun: How optimization of photosynthetic light reactions can boost crop yields.Journal of integrative plant biology · 2022Review
- Evolutionary and Molecular Aspects of Plastid Endosymbioses.Biomolecules · 2021Article
- Light Harvesting in Fluctuating Environments: Evolution and Function of Antenna Proteins across Photosynthetic Lineage.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Scaffolding proteins guide the evolution of algal light harvesting antennas.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Functional roles of the hexamer structure of C-phycocyanin revealed by calculation of absorption wavelength.FEBS open bio · 2021Article
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1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
The phycobilisome (PBS) is the major light-harvesting complex of photosynthesis in cyanobacteria, red algae, and glaucophyte algae. In spite of the fact that it is very well structured to absorb light and transfer it efficiently to photosynthetic reaction centers, it has been completely lost in the green algae and plants. It is difficult to see how selection alone could account for such a major loss. An alternative scenario takes into account the role of chance, enabled by (contingent on) the evolution of an alternative antenna system early in the diversification of the three lineages from the first photosynthetic eukaryote.
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