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Biliproteins
Author(s) -
Scheer Hugo
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.198102411
Subject(s) - photosynthesis , pigment , chemistry , covalent bond , biochemistry , biophysics , botany , biology , organic chemistry
Biliproteins, covalently bonded complexes of proteins and bile pigments, serve as light‐harvesting pigments in photosynthesis and light‐sensory pigments of photosynthetic organisms. Recent developments in the biochemistry and biophysics of these pigments are reviewed and an attempt is made to describe their functions of light‐harvesting and of information transduction on a molecular level.