phycobilisome
id: GO:0030089
name: phycobilisome
namespace: cellular_component
type: go
obsolete: False
Description: 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.
Parent Functions
id | name |
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GO:0030076 | light-harvesting complex |
GO:0044425 | membrane part |
GO:0044436 | thylakoid part |