Structural highlights
Function
PHAA_THEVB Light-harvesting photosynthetic bile pigment-protein from the phycobiliprotein complex. Allophycocyanin has a maximum absorption at approximately 650 nanometers.
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
Cyanobacteria and red algae use light-harvesting pigments bound by proteins to capture solar radiation and to channel excitation energy into their reaction centres. In most cyanobacteria, a multi-megadalton soluble structure known as the phycobilisome is a major light-harvesting system. Allophycocyanin is the main component of the phycobilisome core, forming a link between the rest of the phycobilisome and the reaction-centre core. The crystal structure of allophycocyanin from Thermosynechococcus elongatus (TeAPC) has been determined and refined at 3.5 A resolution to a crystallographic R value of 26.0% (R(free) = 28.5%). The structure was solved by molecular replacement using the allophycocyanin structure from Spirulina platensis as the search model. The asymmetric unit contains an (alphabeta) monomer which is expanded by symmetry to a crystallographic trimer.
The structure of allophycocyanin from Thermosynechococcus elongatus at 3.5 A resolution.,Murray JW, Maghlaoui K, Barber J Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2007 Dec 1;63(Pt, 12):998-1002. Epub 2007 Nov 21. PMID:18084078[1]
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References
- ↑ Murray JW, Maghlaoui K, Barber J. The structure of allophycocyanin from Thermosynechococcus elongatus at 3.5 A resolution. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2007 Dec 1;63(Pt, 12):998-1002. Epub 2007 Nov 21. PMID:18084078 doi:S1744309107050920
