A Novel Mode of Photoprotection Mediated by a Cysteine Residue in the Chlorophyll Protein IsiA

Hui-Yuan Steven Chen; Dariusz M. Niedzwiedzki; Anindita Bandyopadhyay; Sandeep Biswas; Himadri B. Pakrasi

doi:10.1128/mBio.03663-20

mBio (Feb 2021)

A Novel Mode of Photoprotection Mediated by a Cysteine Residue in the Chlorophyll Protein IsiA

Hui-Yuan Steven Chen,
Dariusz M. Niedzwiedzki,
Anindita Bandyopadhyay,
Sandeep Biswas,
Himadri B. Pakrasi

Affiliations

Hui-Yuan Steven Chen: Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Dariusz M. Niedzwiedzki: Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Anindita Bandyopadhyay: Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Sandeep Biswas: Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Himadri B. Pakrasi: ORCiD; Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.03663-20
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1

Abstract

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Cyanobacteria, oxygenic photosynthetic microbes, constantly experience varying light regimes. Light intensities higher than those that saturate the photosynthetic capacity of the organism often lead to redox damage to the photosynthetic apparatus and often cell death.

Published in mBio

ISSN: 2161-2129 (Print); 2150-7511 (Online)
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Science: Microbiology
Website: https://journals.asm.org/journal/mbio

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