Plants protect themselves from fluctuating high-light conditions by dissipating a large part of their absorbed energy as heat, in a process that requires the protein PsbS. The structure of PsbS opens new possibilities for understanding the mechanism of photoprotection in plants.
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Croce, R. PsbS is the plants' pick for sun protection. Nat Struct Mol Biol 22, 650–652 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.3079
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