Cyanobacterial and Algal Symbioses

Kovačević, Goran; Steiner, Jürgen; Löffelhardt, Wolfgang

doi:10.1002/9783527629176.ch29

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“…Cyanophora paradoxa is a single-celled nitrogen-fixing Glaucophyta member with a sequenced genome that has been used for many years as a model organism in various laboratories. Accumulated data have regularly reflected in a number of reviews [73][74][75][77][78][79].…”

Section: Glaucophytic Algaementioning

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Phycobilisomes and Phycobiliproteins in the Pigment Apparatus of Oxygenic Photosynthetics: From Cyanobacteria to Tertiary Endosymbiosis

Stadnichuk

Kusnetsov

2023

IJMS

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Eukaryotic photosynthesis originated in the course of evolution as a result of the uptake of some unstored cyanobacterium and its transformation to chloroplasts by an ancestral heterotrophic eukaryotic cell. The pigment apparatus of Archaeplastida and other algal phyla that emerged later turned out to be arranged in the same way. Pigment-protein complexes of photosystem I (PS I) and photosystem II (PS II) are characterized by uniform structures, while the light-harvesting antennae have undergone a series of changes. The phycobilisome (PBS) antenna present in cyanobacteria was replaced by Chl a/b- or Chl a/c-containing pigment–protein complexes in most groups of photosynthetics. In the form of PBS or phycobiliprotein aggregates, it was inherited by members of Cyanophyta, Cryptophyta, red algae, and photosynthetic amoebae. Supramolecular organization and architectural modifications of phycobiliprotein antennae in various algal phyla in line with the endosymbiotic theory of chloroplast origin are the subject of this review.

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