Structure of a stripped-down and tuned-up far-red phycobilisome.

ABSTRACT: A diverse subset of cyanobacteria can transiently modify their photosynthetic machinery during far-red light photoacclimation to drive photosynthesis with less energetic photons (700 nm-800 nm). To achieve this, all the main light-driven components of the photosynthetic apparatus, including their allophycocyanin antenna, are replaced with red-shifted paralogues. Recent studies based on the structure of an incomplete complex provided some insights into the tuning of the far-red phycobiliproteins. Here, we solved the structure of the intact bicylindrical allophycocyanin complex from the cyanobacterium Chroococcidiopsis thermalis PCC 7203 at a resolution of 2.51 Å determined by Cryo-electron microscopy single particle analysis. A comparison between conserved structural features in far-red and

SUBMITTER: Consoli G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12152189 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature