light-harvesting complex

Such a protein is also called a light-harvesting complex.

Light-harvesting complexes are found in a wide variety among the different photosynthetic species.

The structures of these supercomplexes are large, involving multiple light-harvesting complexes.

They use special proteins, called light-harvesting complexes, to absorb the photons with very high effectiveness.

Light-harvesting complexes have their pigments specifically positioned to optimize these rates.

In contrast, a large variety in light-harvesting complexes exist between the photosynthetic species.

Chlorophylls and carotenoids are important in light-harvesting complexes present in plants.

Since then, several other high-resolution structures have been done by electron crystallography, including the light-harvesting complex, and the bacterial flagellum.

Light-harvesting complexes and photosynthetic reaction centers are typically found in photosynthetic organisms like green plants.

Phycoerythrocyanin is similar to phycocyanin, an important component of the light-harvesting complex (phycobilisome) of cyanobacteria and red algae.

Because they have been so difficult to study, the chlorosomes in green sulfur bacteria are the last class of light-harvesting complexes to be characterized structurally by scientists.

It was found that R. palustris has genes that encode for proteins that make up light-harvesting complexes and photosynthetic reaction centres.

Tighter binding of Chl b is apparently responsible for the well-known stability of light-harvesting complexes during mildly denaturing gel electrophoresis.

In a photosystem, this Reaction Center is surrounded by light-harvesting complexes that enhance the absorption of light and transfer the energy to the Reaction Centers.

Light-harvesting complexes in bacteria and plants capture photons and transduce them into electrons, injecting them into the photosynthetic chain.

A light-harvesting complex is a complex of subunit proteins that may be part of a larger supercomplex of a photosystem, the functional unit in photosynthesis.

Light-harvesting complexes are located around the reaction center and additional pigments, carotenoids, and chlorophylls to funnel absorbed energy to the special pair via resonance energy transfer.

Lokstein (1994)The role of light-harvesting complex II energy dissipation: an in-vivo fluorescence in excess excitation study on the origin of high-energy quenching.

Photosystem II and photosystem I contain light-harvesting complexes with chlorophyll and carotenoids that absorb light energy and use it to energize electrons.

The availability of Chl b thus strongly regulates import of LHCPs as well as assembly and eventual accumulation of light-harvesting complexes.

Plants and green algae (Chlorophyta) contain in addition Chl b, an accessory Chl found only in peripheral light-harvesting complexes (LHCs).

Once the light energy has been absorbed directly by the pigment molecules, or passed to them by resonance transfer from a surrounding light-harvesting complex, they release two electrons into an electron transport chain.

Peridinin is a light-harvesting carotenoid, a pigment associated with chlorophyll and found in the peridinin-chlorophyll-protein (PCP) light-harvesting complex in dinoflagellates, best studied in Amphidinium carterae.

More specifically, it is located in Photosystem II (PSII) and in the light-harvesting complex II (LHCII).

Millar developed an innovative forward genetic screen in which he linked a bioluminescent reporter, firefly luciferase), to expression of CAB (chlorophyll-a,b binding protein-see Light-harvesting complexes of green plants) in Arabidopsis.