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ReviewArchives of microbiology2025

Light sensitive orange carotenoid proteins (OCPs) in cyanobacterial photoprotection: evolutionary insights, structural-functional dynamics and biotechnological prospects.

Syama Prabha, Aravind K Vijay, Doniya Elze Mathew, Basil George

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Review in Archives of microbiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Syama PrabhaDepartment of Botany, CMS College Kottayam, Kottayam, Kerala, 686001, India.
Aravind K VijayDepartment of Botany, CMS College Kottayam, Kottayam, Kerala, 686001, India.
Doniya Elze MathewDepartment of Biotechnology, CMS College Kottayam, Kottayam, Kerala, 686001, India.
Basil GeorgeDepartment of Botany, CMS College Kottayam, Kottayam, Kerala, 686001, India. basil.george@cmscollege.ac.in.

Funding

Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment 7/2022/KSCSTEMahatma Gandhi University 6321/ ACA6/2022/MGUScience and Engineering Research Board SERB-EMR/2015/001016
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Among all photosynthetic life forms, cyanobacteria exclusively possess a water-soluble, light-sensitive carotenoprotein complex known as orange carotenoid proteins (OCPs), crucial for their photoprotective mechanisms. These protein complexes exhibit both structural and functional modularity, with distinct C-terminal (CTD) and N-terminal domains (NTD) serving as light-responsive sensor and effector regions, respectively. The majority of cyanobacterial genomes contain genes for OCP homologs and related proteins, highlighting their essential role in survival of the organism over time. Cyanobacterial photoprotection primarily involves the translocation of carotenoid entity into the NTD, leading to remarkable conformational changes in both domains and formation of metastable OCP

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Bacterial ProteinsCarotenoidsCyanobacteriaBiotechnologyLightProtein ConformationBacterial ProteinsCarotenoidsCyanobacteriaFRPNon-photochemical quenchingOCPOptogeneticsPhotoswitchPhycobiliprotein

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PMID39799518

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