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Light-induced energetic decoupling as a mechanism for phycobilisome-related energy dissipation in red algae: a single molecule study.
PloS one - 4 Sept 2008
Liu Lu-Ning, Elmalk Abdalmohsen T, Aartsma Thijs J, Thomas Jean-Claude, Lamers Gerda E M, Zhou Bai-Cheng, Zhang Yu-Zhong
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Photosynthetic organisms have developed multiple protective mechanisms to prevent photodamage in vivo under high-light conditions. Cyanobacteria and red algae use phycobilisomes (PBsomes) as their major light-harvesting antennae complexes. The orange carotenoid protein in some cyanobacteria has been demonstrated to play roles in the photoprotective mechanism. The PBsome-itself-related energy...
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