UniProt functional annotation for P50033

UniProt code: P50033.

Organism: Thermosynechococcus elongatus (strain BP-1).
Taxonomy: Bacteria; Cyanobacteria; Synechococcales; Synechococcaceae; Thermosynechococcus.
 
Function: Light-harvesting photosynthetic bile pigment-protein from the phycobiliprotein complex (phycobilisome, PBS). Phycocyanin is the major phycobiliprotein in the PBS rod.
 
Subunit: Heterodimer of an alpha and a beta subunit, which further assembles into trimers (PubMed:12460674, PubMed:12615541). The trimers assemble into hexamers (Probable). {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12460674, ECO:0000269|PubMed:12615541, ECO:0000305, ECO:0007744|PDB:1JBO, ECO:0007744|PDB:1KTP, ECO:0007744|PDB:3L0F, ECO:0007744|PDB:4Q70, ECO:0007744|PDB:4Z8K, ECO:0007744|PDB:4ZIZ, ECO:0007744|PDB:5MJM, ECO:0007744|PDB:5MJP, ECO:0007744|PDB:5MJQ, ECO:0007744|PDB:5O7M, ECO:0007744|PDB:5UVK}.
Subcellular location: Cellular thylakoid membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:26306196}; Peripheral membrane protein {ECO:0000269|PubMed:26306196}; Cytoplasmic side {ECO:0000250}. Note=Part of the phycobilisome rod. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12615541, ECO:0000269|PubMed:26306196}.
Ptm: Contains two covalently linked bilin chromophores. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12460674, ECO:0000269|PubMed:12615541, ECO:0000269|PubMed:26177184, ECO:0000269|PubMed:26306196, ECO:0000269|PubMed:28875031, ECO:0007744|PDB:1JBO, ECO:0007744|PDB:1KTP, ECO:0007744|PDB:3L0F, ECO:0007744|PDB:4Q70, ECO:0007744|PDB:4Z8K, ECO:0007744|PDB:4ZIZ, ECO:0007744|PDB:5MJM, ECO:0007744|PDB:5MJP, ECO:0007744|PDB:5MJQ, ECO:0007744|PDB:5O7M, ECO:0007744|PDB:5UVK}.
Similarity: Belongs to the phycobiliprotein family. {ECO:0000305}.

Annotations taken from UniProtKB at the EBI.