ArticleNature communications2023
A structure of the relict phycobilisome from a thylakoid-free cyanobacterium.
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- Heterogeneity within phycobilisomes is highly orchestrated.Photosynthesis research · 2026Article
- The structure of phycobilisome with a bicylindrical core from the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942.Photosynthesis research · 2025Article
- On the non-oxygenic origins of thylakoids.Communications biology · 2025Review
- Structure and quenching of a bundle-shaped phycobilisome.Science advances · 2025Article
- Partial photoswitching of rod-shaped phycobilisome production in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.Plant & cell physiology · 2025Article
- Structure and evolution of photosystem I in the early-branching cyanobacteriumProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Physiological and molecular evidence for phycobilisome degradation in maintaining carbon and nitrogen balance of cyanobacteria.Marine life science & technology · 2025Article
- N-Terminal domain homologs of the orange carotenoid protein increase quenching of cyanobacterial phycobilisomes.Plant physiology · 2025Article
- Archaean green-light environments drove the evolution of cyanobacteria's light-harvesting system.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- Thylakoids for enhanced photodynamic therapy in hypoxic tumours.Science and technology of advanced materials · 2025Review
- The structural basis for light harvesting in organisms producing phycobiliproteins.The Plant cell · 2024Review
- Structure of the antenna complex expressed during far-red light photoacclimation in Synechococcus sp. PCC 7335.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2024Article
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Abstract
Phycobilisomes (PBS) are antenna megacomplexes that transfer energy to photosystems II and I in thylakoids. PBS likely evolved from a basic, inefficient form into the predominant hemidiscoidal shape with radiating peripheral rods. However, it has been challenging to test this hypothesis because ancestral species are generally inaccessible. Here we use spectroscopy and cryo-electron microscopy to reveal a structure of a "paddle-shaped" PBS from a thylakoid-free cyanobacterium that likely retains ancestral traits. This PBS lacks rods and specialized ApcD and ApcF subunits, indicating relict characteristics. Other features include linkers connecting two chains of five phycocyanin hexamers (CpcN) and two core subdomains (ApcH), resulting in a paddle-shaped configuration. Energy transfer calculations demonstrate that chains are less efficient than rods. These features may nevertheless have increased light absorption by elongating PBS before multilayered thylakoids with hemidiscoidal PBS evolved. Our results provide insights into the evolution and diversification of light-harvesting strategies before the origin of thylakoids.
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