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Identification of a protein required for recovery of full antenna capacity in OCP-related photoprotective mechanism in cyanobacteria.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 22 Jun 2010
Boulay Clémence, Wilson Adjélé, D'Haene Sandrine, Kirilovsky Diana
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High light can be lethal for photosynthetic organisms. Similar to plants, most cyanobacteria protect themselves from high irradiance by increasing thermal dissipation of excess absorbed energy. The photoactive soluble orange carotenoid protein (OCP) is essential for the triggering of this photoprotective mechanism. Light induces structural changes in the carotenoid and the protein, leading to the formation of a...
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