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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Keisuke Kawakami, Tasuku Hamaguchi, Yuu Hirose, Daisuke Kosumi, Makoto Miyata, Nobuo Kamiya, Koji Yonekura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30962-9