phycobilin

Noun

Meaning

water-soluble proteinaceous pigments found in red algae and cyanobacteria

Hypernyms

Examples

Cryptophyte chloroplasts and some cyanobacteria don't have their phycobilin pigments organized into phycobilisomes, and keep them in their thylakoid space instead. Source: Internet

Rhodoplasts have chlorophyll a and phycobilins for photosynthetic pigments; the phycobilin phycoerytherin is responsible for giving many red algae their distinctive red color. Source: Internet

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