Light-harvesting by antenna-containing xanthorhodopsin from an Antarctic cyanobacterium
Marı́a del Carmen Marı́n, Shunya Murakoshi, Andrey Rozenberg…·Keiichi Inoue
The paper identifies widespread xanthorhodopsin genes in cyanobacteria and characterizes a unique variant from an Antarctic cyanobacterium that binds hydroxylated lutein, enhancing light-harvesting efficiency in extreme environments.