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Femtosecond Dynamics of Excited States of Chlorophyll Tetramer in Water-Soluble Chlorophyll-Binding Protein BoWSCP
AbstractThe paper reports on the absorption dynamics of chlorophyll a in a symmetric tetrameric complex of the water-soluble chlorophyll-binding...
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Identification and expression analysis of chlorophyll a/b binding protein gene family in grape (Vitis vinifera)
In higher plants, light capture of chlorophyll a/b binding protein (Lhc) plays a crucial role in the plant's response to adverse environment. So far,...
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Combining BN-PAGE and microscopy techniques to investigate pigment-protein complexes and plastid transitions in citrus fruit
BackgroundChlorophyll and carotenoids, the most widely distributed lipophilic pigments in plants, contribute to fruit coloration during development...
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Cataloguing Protein Complexes In Planta Using TurboID-Catalyzed Proximity Labeling
Map** protein–protein interactions is crucial to understand protein function. Recent advances in proximity-dependent biotinylation (BioID) coupled...
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Interdependence of fucoxanthin biosynthesis and fucoxanthin-chlorophyll a/c binding proteins in Phaeodactylum tricornutum under different light intensities
Fucoxanthin (FX), a primary carotenoid, is associated with the fucoxanthin-chlorophyll a/c binding protein (FCP) complex integrated into the...
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The influence of cationic antiseptics on the processes of light energy conversion in various photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes
The widespread use of disinfectants and antiseptics, and consequently their release into the environment, determines the relevance of studying their...
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Identification of the Stress Hli Protein in the Pigment–Protein Complexes of Arthrospira platensis
AbstractHli proteins of the multicellular cyanobacterium Arthrospira platensis have been studied in this work. According to the NCBI database, three...
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Structural and Functional Dynamics of Microbial Photosystem Complexes
Photosynthesis involves two stages, the light reactions and the dark reactions that occur in thylakoid membranes and stroma, respectively. The...
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Biophysical Approaches for the Characterization of Protein-Metabolite Interactions
With an estimate of hundred thousands of protein molecules per cell and the number of metabolites several orders of magnitude higher,...
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Dual specificity and target gene selection by the MADS-domain protein FRUITFULL
How transcription factors attain their target gene specificity and how this specificity may be modulated, acquiring different regulatory functions...
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Phylogenetic and spectroscopic insights on the evolution of core antenna proteins in cyanobacteria
Light harvesting by antenna systems is the initial step in a series of electron-transfer reactions in all photosynthetic organisms, leading to energy...
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Outdoor photoacclimation of two Chlorella strains characterized by normal and reduced light-harvesting antennas: photosynthetic activity and chlorophyll-protein organization
Photoacclimation of two Chlorella cultures – strain g-120 characterised by a reduced size of light-harvesting antenna complex (LHC) and strain R-117...
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Growth phase-dependent reorganization of cryptophyte photosystem I antennae
Photosynthetic cryptophytes are eukaryotic algae that utilize membrane-embedded chlorophyll a/c binding proteins (CACs) and lumen-localized...
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Photosynthetic Light Reactions in Diatoms. I. The Lipids and Light-Harvesting Complexes of the Thylakoid Membrane
Light harvesting and photochemistry is performed by photosystems coupled to specific antennae embedded in the thylakoid membrane, a common principle...
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OsPPR11 encoding P-type PPR protein that affects group II intron splicing and chloroplast development
Key messageOsPPR11 belongs to the P-type PPR protein family and can interact with OsCAF2 to regulate Group II intron splicing and affect chloroplast...
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Mutation map** of a variegated EMS tomato reveals an FtsH-like protein precursor potentially causing patches of four phenotype classes in the leaves with distinctive internal morphology
BackgroundLeaf variegation is an intriguing phenomenon observed in many plant species. However, questions remain on its mechanisms causing patterns...
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Physiological and transcriptomic analysis of OsLHCB3 knockdown lines in rice
The photosystem II (PSII) outer antenna LHCB3 protein plays critical roles in distributing the excitation energy and modulating the rate of state...
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Cryo-EM structure of a plant photosystem II supercomplex with light-harvesting protein Lhcb8 and α-tocopherol
The heart of oxygenic photosynthesis is the water-splitting photosystem II (PSII), which forms supercomplexes with a variable amount of peripheral...
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Characterization of photosystem II assembly complexes containing ONE-HELIX PROTEIN1 in Arabidopsis thaliana
The assembly process of photosystem II (PSII) requires several auxiliary proteins to form assembly intermediates. In plants, early assembly...
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Reversible protein phosphorylation in higher plants: focus on state transitions
Reversible protein phosphorylation is one of the comprehensive mechanisms of cell metabolism regulation in eukaryotic organisms. The review describes...
