Term Information

Accession
GO:0030089
Name
phycobilisome
Ontology
cellular_component
Synonyms
None
Alternate IDs
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Definition
Any of the granules, approximately 32 nm x 48 nm and consisting of highly aggregated phycobiliproteins, that are attached in arrays to the external face of a thylakoid membrane in algae of the phyla Cyanophyta and Rhodophyta, where they function as light-harvesting devices in photosynthesis. Excitation energy in the phycobilisome flows in the sequence: phycoerythrin, phycocyanin, allophycocyanin before passing to the antenna chlorophyll of photosystem II. Source: PMID:11734882, GOC:jl, Wikipedia:Phycobilisome
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History
See term history for GO:0030089 at QuickGO
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Parents of phycobilisome (GO:0030089)
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phycobilisome [is_a relation] is_a  membrane protein complex (GO:0098796)
phycobilisome [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  thylakoid membrane (GO:0042651)
phycobilisome [is_a relation] is_a  light-harvesting complex (GO:0030076)

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Phycobilisome