Scaffolding proteins guide the evolution of algal light harvesting antennas

Authors :: Harry W. Rathbone
Katharine A. Michie
Michael J. Landsberg
Beverley R. Green
Paul M. G. Curmi
Source :: Nature Communications, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2021)
Publication Year :: 2021
Publisher :: Nature Portfolio, 2021.
Abstract: Cryptophytes acquired plastids from red algae but replaced the light-harvesting phycobilisome with a unique cryptophyte antenna. Here via analysis of phycobilisome cryo-EM structures, Rathbone et al. propose that the α subunit of the cryptophyte antenna originated from phycobilisome linker proteins

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