Phycobilisome
| Phycobilisome protein | |||||||||
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The layout of protein subunits in a phycobilisome. | |||||||||
| Identifiers | |||||||||
| Symbol | Phycobilisome | ||||||||
| Pfam | PF00502 | ||||||||
| InterPro | IPR012128 | ||||||||
| SCOP2 | 1cpc / SCOPe / SUPFAM | ||||||||
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Phycobilisomes are light-harvesting antennae that transmit the energy of harvested photons to photosystem II and photosystem I in cyanobacteria and in the chloroplasts of red algae and glaucophytes. They were lost during the evolution of the chloroplasts of green algae and plants.