Open AccessEnergy Dissipation: New Role for a Carotenoid Protein in Cyanobacteria
Author(s) -
Nancy A. Eckardt
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the plant cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.324
H-Index - 341
eISSN - 1532-298X
pISSN - 1040-4651
DOI - 10.1105/tpc.106.180410
Subject(s) - photosynthesis , cyanobacteria , biology , photosystem ii , algae , carotenoid , dissipation , biophysics , botany , physics , bacteria , genetics , thermodynamics
Photosynthetic organisms have developed multiple mechanisms to protect the photosynthetic apparatus from high light stress. Plants and algae exhibit thermal dissipation of excitation energy in the membrane-bound light-harvesting complex of photosystem II (LHCII). In most species of cyanobacteria,
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