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Phycobilins (from Gr****: φύκος (phykos)
meaning "alga", and from Latin:
bilis meaning "bile") are light-capturing
bilins found in
cyanobacteria and in...
- to
absorb light and
acquire energy.
Prochlorophyta lack red and blue
phycobilin pigments and have
stacked thylakoids,
making them
distinctly different...
- pyrenoids.
Rhodoplasts have
chlorophyll a and
phycobilins for
photosynthetic pigments; the
phycobilin phycoerythrin is
responsible for
giving many red...
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chlorophylls a and c (often), and
phycobilins,
while those of
green algae have
chloroplasts with
chlorophyll a and b
without phycobilins. Land
plants are pigmented...
- (Some cyanobacteria, the prochlorophytes, use
chlorophyll b
instead of
phycobilin.) It is
thought that the
chloroplasts in
plants and
algae all evolved...
- for the
treatment of
cancer Phycocyanobilin, a blue
phycobilin Phycoerythrobilin, a red
phycobilin This set
index page
lists chemical structure articles...
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rings have been
joined together, the
resulting structure is very like
phycobilin, a
compound used by
algae and some
bacteria to
capture light for photosynthesis...
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Micura is an
Austrian chemist. He
received his PhD
working in the
field of
phycobilin pigments under the
supervision of Karl
Grubmayr in 1995. He was awarded...
- and can be excreted.
Bilirubin is
structurally similar to the
pigment phycobilin used by
certain algae to
capture light energy, and to the
pigment phytochrome...
- part
covalently binding chromop****s
called phycobilins. In the
phycoerythrin family, the most
known phycobilins are: phycoerythrobilin, the
typical phycoerythrin...
