Water-soluble carotenoid proteins of cyanobacteria

Cheryl A Kerfeld

doi:10.1016/j.abb.2004.03.018

Water-soluble carotenoid proteins of cyanobacteria

Arch Biochem Biophys. 2004 Oct 1;430(1):2-9. doi: 10.1016/j.abb.2004.03.018.

Author

Cheryl A Kerfeld¹

Affiliation

¹ Molecular Biology Institute, UCLA Box 951570, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1570, USA. kerfeld@mbi.ucla.edu

PMID: 15325905
DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2004.03.018

Abstract

In photosynthetic organisms, carotenoids function in light harvesting and in photoprotection. In cyanobacteria, there have been numerous reports of proteins that bind exclusively carotenoids. Perhaps the best characterized of these proteins are the 35 kDa water-soluble orange carotenoid proteins (OCPs). Structural, biochemical, and genomic data on the OCP and its paralogs are gradually revealing how these proteins function in photoprotection.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Amino Acid Sequence
Bacterial Proteins / analysis*
Bacterial Proteins / chemistry*
Carotenoids / analysis*
Cyanobacteria / chemistry*
Cyanobacteria / physiology*
Models, Molecular
Molecular Sequence Data
Protein Conformation

Substances

Bacterial Proteins
Carotenoids