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Phycocyanin ismaybe a filamentous cyanobacterium that’s blue-green. It’s a pigment-proteincomplex from the phycobiliprotein family, which comes with allophycocyanin& phycoerythrin. It’s water-soluble.
Today we are going to discuss in detail that how Phycocyanin is made& how can we get benefit from using it within different applications.
Subunits of Phycobiliproteins
- There are two subunits of phycobiliproteins, “Alpha & beta”, which have the protein’s backbone where one or two tetrapyrrole chromophores are covalently bound.
- Phycocyanin is usually found in the cyanobacteria, which grow nearby hot weather because it can remain stable up to 70 °C, with light-absorbing behaviours at 20 and 70 °C.
- Thermophiles contain a bit different aminoalkanoic acid cycle making them stable under these higher conditions.
- The relative molecular mass is about 30,000 Da.
- The stability of this protein invitro at these temperatures has been disported to be substantially lower.
- Photo-spectral inspection of the protein after 1 min exposure to 65 °C conditions during a purified state demonstrated a 50% loss of tertiary structure.
Making of Phycocyanin
- There are various methods for the production of Phycocyanin, including photoautotrophic, mixotrophic, heterotrophic, & recombinant production.
- Production of Phycocyanin happens where cyanobacteria spread in open ponds in tropical or either subtropical regions, whereas the production of
- Mixotrophic algae grow in the culture where they have the source of organic carbon like glucose.
- Let us have a look at Subunits of Phycocyanin.
