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Allophycocyanin beta subunit of the phycobilisome core Phycobilisomes (PBSs) are the main light-harvesting complex in cyanobacteria and red algae. In general, they consist of a central core and surrounding rods and function to harvest and channel light energy toward the photosynthetic reaction centers within the membrane. They are comprised of phycobiliproteins/chromophorylated proteins (PBPs) maintained together by linker polypeptides. PBPs have different numbers of chromophores, and the basic monomer component (alpha/beta heterodimers) can further oligomerize to ring-shaped trimers (heterohexamers) and hexamers (heterododecamers). Stacked PBP hexamers form both the core and the rods of the PBS; the core is mainly made up by allophycocyanin (APC) while the rods can be composed of the PBPs phycoerythrin (PE), phycocyanin (PC) and phycoerythrocyanin (PEC).
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