Scaffolding proteins guide the evolution of algal light harvesting antennas.
Rathbone, H.W., Michie, K.A., Landsberg, M.J., Green, B.R., Curmi, P.M.G.(2021) Nat Commun 12: 1890-1890
- PubMed: 33767155 
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22128-w
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7LIX, 7LIY, 7LIZ, 7LJ0 - PubMed Abstract: 
Photosynthetic organisms have developed diverse antennas composed of chromophorylated proteins to increase photon capture. Cryptophyte algae acquired their photosynthetic organelles (plastids) from a red alga by secondary endosymbiosis. Cryptophytes lost the primary red algal antenna, the red algal phycobilisome, replacing it with a unique antenna composed of αβ protomers, where the β subunit originates from the red algal phycobilisome ...