Regulating Light-Harvesting Protein Assembly through Engineered Trimers of Phycocyanin and Allophycocyanin
Motoyasu Adachi, Masaaki Tsubouchi, Takatoshi Fujita, Chie Shibazaki, Keita Miyake, Ryuji Itakura
The paper engineers phycocyanin and allophycocyanin trimers to stabilize their structure and prevent hexamer formation, enabling study of energy transfer in phycobiliproteins.
bioRxiv · Jun 25, 2026 · PreprintBiochemistry