{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Seki S"],"funding":["MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)","MEXT | JST | Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST)","Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED)"],"pagination":["1586"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12624006"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["8(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Light harvesting is essential for photosynthesis, and the diversity of light-harvesting systems enables photosynthetic organisms to acquire unique niches and thrive. Prasinophytes are marine green algae that diverge early in the evolution of photosynthetic eukaryotes and use a distinct light-harvesting complex known as Lhcp as their primary antenna. Lhcp consists of proteins and pigments unique to prasinophytes but shares some structural and functional features with the plant-type light-harvesting complex LHCII. Here, we use cryo-electron microscopy to determine the structure of Lhcp from the prasinophyte Ostreococcus tauri at 1.94 Å resolution, revealing all pigments responsible for light harvesting. The results show that the trimeric structure of Lhcp is stabilized by pigments, including"],"journal":["Communications biology"],"pubmed_title":["Distinctive and functional pigment arrangements in Lhcp, a prasinophyte-specific photosynthetic light-harvesting complex."],"pmcid":["PMC12624006"],"funding_grant_id":["JP23ama121001","23H04958","KAKENHI 23K05721","KAKENHI 24H02091","JPMJCR20E1","K23KJ1834","JP23ama121003"],"pubmed_authors":["Seki S","Tanaka H","Yamano N","Kim E","Minagawa J","Kubota M","Zhang JP","Fujii R","Ishii A","Miyata T","Cogdell RJ","Kurisu G","Namba K"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Distinctive and functional pigment arrangements in Lhcp, a prasinophyte-specific photosynthetic light-harvesting complex.","description":"Light harvesting is essential for photosynthesis, and the diversity of light-harvesting systems enables photosynthetic organisms to acquire unique niches and thrive. Prasinophytes are marine green algae that diverge early in the evolution of photosynthetic eukaryotes and use a distinct light-harvesting complex known as Lhcp as their primary antenna. Lhcp consists of proteins and pigments unique to prasinophytes but shares some structural and functional features with the plant-type light-harvesting complex LHCII. Here, we use cryo-electron microscopy to determine the structure of Lhcp from the prasinophyte Ostreococcus tauri at 1.94 Å resolution, revealing all pigments responsible for light harvesting. The results show that the trimeric structure of Lhcp is stabilized by pigments, including","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 Nov","modification":"2026-06-05T16:35:44.411Z","creation":"2026-05-18T03:13:15.357Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC12624006","cross_references":{"pubmed":["41249568"],"doi":["10.1038/s42003-025-08977-x"]}}