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Dissipating energy by carotenoids

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The demonstration of excitation energy dissipation via energy transfer in a cyanobacterial chlorophyll-carotenoid membrane complex provides evidence that this mechanism may also operate in the light-harvesting complex antennae of higher plants.

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Figure 1: Structures and mechanisms in energy dissipation by HliD.

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Kirilovsky, D. Dissipating energy by carotenoids. Nat Chem Biol 11, 242–243 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.1771

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