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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Phycobilisome core architecture influences photoprotective quenching by the Orange Carotenoid Protein.

Ayesha Ejaz, Markus Sutter, Sigal Lechno-Yossef, Cheryl A Kerfeld, Allison H Squires

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 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.

  1. Phycobilisome core architecture influences photoprotective quenching by the Orange Carotenoid Protein.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Ayesha EjazDepartment of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.ORCID 0009-0004-9487-5568
Markus SutterMichigan State University - Department of Energy (MSU-DOE) Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824.ORCID 0000-0001-6290-4820
Sigal Lechno-YossefMichigan State University - Department of Energy (MSU-DOE) Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824.ORCID 0000-0001-9231-3386
Cheryl A KerfeldMichigan State University - Department of Energy (MSU-DOE) Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824.ORCID 0000-0002-9977-8482
Allison H SquiresPritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.ORCID 0000-0002-2417-1432

Funding

DOE | Office of Science (SC) DE-SC0020606DOE | Office of Science (SC) DE-SC0025385Neubauer Family Foundation (NFF) n/aNSF | MPS | Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (OMA) OMA-2121044
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Photosynthetic organisms rely on sophisticated photoprotective mechanisms to prevent oxidative damage under high or fluctuating solar illumination. Cyanobacteria, which have evolved a unique, water-soluble light-harvesting complex-the phycobilisome-achieve photoprotection through a photoactivatable quencher called the Orange Carotenoid Protein (OCP). Phycobilisomes are highly symmetric and modular, formed by hierarchical assembly of conserved subunits into diverse geometries ranging from simple bundles to elaborate fan- or bouquet-like macromolecular architectures. Although OCP is known to provide photoprotection across species of cyanobacteria with different phycobilisome structures, it is not known whether or how these structural variations relate to changes in the photoprotective function of OCP. For example, OCP was recently discovered to bind as a dimer at two specific instances of an abundant structural motif on the tricylindrical phycobilisome of

Indexed as

Bacterial ProteinsPhycobilisomesSynechocystisCarotenoidsPhotosynthesisBacterial ProteinsCarotenoidsorange carotenoid protein, SynechocystisPhycobilisomesABEL trapOrange Carotenoid Proteinphotosynthesisphycobilisomesingle-molecule spectroscopy

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PMID41055987
PMCPMC12541308

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