Core and rod structures of a thermophilic cyanobacterial light-harvesting phycobilisome

Keisuke Kawakami; Tasuku Hamaguchi; Yuu Hirose; Daisuke Kosumi; Makoto Miyata; Nobuo Kamiya; Koji Yonekura

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-30962-9

Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Core and rod structures of a thermophilic cyanobacterial light-harvesting phycobilisome

Keisuke Kawakami,
Tasuku Hamaguchi,
Yuu Hirose,
Daisuke Kosumi,
Makoto Miyata,
Nobuo Kamiya,
Koji Yonekura

Affiliations

Keisuke Kawakami: Biostructural Mechanism Laboratory, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1
Tasuku Hamaguchi: Biostructural Mechanism Laboratory, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1
Yuu Hirose: Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute, Toyohashi University of Technology
Daisuke Kosumi: Institute of Industrial Nanomaterials, Kumamoto University
Makoto Miyata: Graduate School of Science, Osaka Metropolitan University
Nobuo Kamiya: The OCU Advanced Research Institute for Natural Science & Technology (OCARINA), Osaka Metropolitan University
Koji Yonekura: Biostructural Mechanism Laboratory, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30962-9
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Phycobilisome (PBS) absorbs solar energy and transfer the energy to photosynthetic membrane proteins. In this study, the structures of the pentacylindrical core and rod in PBS from a thermophilic cyanobacterium by cryo-electron microscopy.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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