Experimental data on possible role of phicobilliprotein (PhBP) in photosynthesis are analysed. It is concluded that the widely spread notion about PhBP only as the light-gathering pigments which trans...
Regeneration of the pigment system of Anacystis nidulans was studied following nitrate starvation. Three new, distinct fluorescence bands, at 596, 615 and 636 nm attributed to sensitizing phycobilin c...
BACKGROUND: Knowledge of phytoplankton structure is important information in water quality control. Lake restoration and sanitation measures in particular must be evaluated on the organismic level to ...
Cyanobacteria, red algae, and cryptophytes contain phycobiliproteins which function as photosynthetic light-harvesting pigments. The chromophores of phycobiliproteins are phycobilins, open-chain tetra...
Algal heme oxygenase is a soluble enzyme from Cyanidium caldarium that catalyzes the first committed step of phycobilin biosynthesis by converting protoheme to biliverdin IX alpha. Although the physio...
The HO1 and PcyA genes, encoding heme oxygenase-1 (HO1) and phycocyanobilin (PCB):ferredoxin (Fd) oxidoreductase (PcyA), respectively, are required for chromophore synthesis in photosynthetic light-ha...