 Phycocyanin
"Phycocyanin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The metal-free blue phycobilin pigment in a conjugated chromoprotein of blue-green algae. It functions as light-absorbing substance together with chlorophylls.
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D010798
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D05.500.562.488.490.500.500.755 D08.811.600.710.490.500.500.755 D12.776.765.650 D23.767.690
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| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Phycocyanin" by people in Profiles.
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Wilkinson IVL, Castro-Falcón G, Roda-Serrat MC, Purdy TN, Straetener J, Brauny MM, Maier L, Brötz-Oesterhelt H, Christensen LP, Sieber SA, Hughes CC. The Cyanobacterial "Nutraceutical" Phycocyanobilin Inhibits Cysteine Protease Legumain. Chembiochem. 2023 03 01; 24(5):e202200455.
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Navotnaya P, Sohoni S, Lloyd LT, Abdulhadi SM, Ting PC, Higgins JS, Engel GS. Annihilation of Excess Excitations along Phycocyanin Rods Precedes Downhill Flow to Allophycocyanin Cores in the Phycobilisome of Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942. J Phys Chem B. 2022 01 13; 126(1):23-29.
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Pan R, Lu R, Zhang Y, Zhu M, Zhu W, Yang R, Zhang E, Ying J, Xu T, Yi H, Li J, Shi M, Zhou L, Xu Z, Li P, Bao Q. Spirulina phycocyanin induces differential protein expression and apoptosis in SKOV-3 cells. Int J Biol Macromol. 2015 Nov; 81:951-9.
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Hughes RM, Bolger S, Tapadia H, Tucker CL. Light-mediated control of DNA transcription in yeast. Methods. 2012 Dec; 58(4):385-91.
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Cornilescu G, Ulijasz AT, Cornilescu CC, Markley JL, Vierstra RD. Solution structure of a cyanobacterial phytochrome GAF domain in the red-light-absorbing ground state. J Mol Biol. 2008 Nov 07; 383(2):403-13.
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