Definition of Phycobilin. Meaning of Phycobilin. Synonyms of Phycobilin

- Phycobilins (from Gr****: φύκος (phykos) meaning "alga", and from Latin: bilis meaning "bile") are light-capturing bilins found in cyanobacteria and in...
- thylakoid membranes are photosynthetic pigments, including chlorophyll a. Phycobilins are also common cyanobacterial pigments, usually organized into hemispherical...
- to absorb light and acquire energy. Prochlorophyta lack red and blue phycobilin pigments and have stacked thylakoids, making them distinctly different...
- rings have been joined together, the resulting structure is very like phycobilin, a compound used by algae and some bacteria to capture light for photosynthesis...
- (Some cyanobacteria, the prochlorophytes, use chlorophyll b instead of phycobilin.) It is thought that the chloroplasts in plants and algae all evolved...
- chlorophylls a and c (often), and phycobilins, while those of green algae have chloroplasts with chlorophyll a and b without phycobilins. Land plants are pigmented...
- pathways : pigments : chlorophyll – carotenoids – xanthophyll – cytochrome – phycobilin – bacteriorhodopsin – hemoglobin – myoglobin – absorption spectrum – action...
- and can be excreted. Bilirubin is structurally similar to the pigment phycobilin used by certain algae to capture light energy, and to the pigment phytochrome...
- Phycoerythrobilin is a red phycobilin, i.e. an open tetrapyrrole chromop**** found in cyanobacteria and in the chloroplasts of red algae, glaucophytes...
- for the treatment of cancer Phycocyanobilin, a blue phycobilin Phycoerythrobilin, a red phycobilin This set index page lists chemical structure articles...