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Science 29 November 1985:
Vol. 230. no. 4729, pp. 1051 - 1053
DOI: 10.1126/science.230.4729.1051
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Kinetics of Energy Flow in the Phycobilisome Core

A. N. GLAZER 1, C. CHAN 1, R. C. WILLIAMS 2, SHEILA W. YEH 3, and J. H. CLARK 3

1 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Berkeley 94720
2 Department of Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley
3 Laboratory of Chemical Biodynamics, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

Light energy absorbed by the 576 bilin chromophores in the six rods of the phycobilisome of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6701 is funneled into a 1.5 x 106 dalton core. The 72 bilins of the core function as a single unit with respect to the rate-limiting processes for energy flow within these particles.

Submitted on April 18, 1985
Accepted on August 28, 1985


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