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Tuesday, 07-04-2026 | 08:20
Phycobilisomes (PBSs) are supramolecular pigment–protein complexes composed of phycobiliproteins and linker proteins, serving as the major light-harvesting complexes that capture and transfer light energy to photosystem II (PSII) and photosystem I (PSI) in cyanobacteria and eukaryotic red algae. In cyanobacteria, a rod-type PBS that does not have a core is specifically connected to PSI by a linker protein CpcL to form a PSI-CpcL-PBS supercomplex. However, the mechanism of CpcL-PBS association to PSI remains unclear.



