Phycocyanobilin

Phycocyanobilin


Identifiers
PubChem	5288007
Properties
Molecular formula	C₃₃H₄₀N₄O₆
Molar mass	588.69 g/mol
Exact mass	588.294785 u
Y (verify) (what is: Y/N?) Except where noted otherwise, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C, 100 kPa)
Infobox references

Phycocyanobilin is a blue phycobilin, i.e., a tetrapyrrole chromophore found in cyanobacteria and in the chloroplasts of red algae, glaucophytes, and some cryptomonads. Phycocyanobilin is present only in the phycobiliproteins allophycocyanin and phycocyanin, of which it is the terminal acceptor of energy. It is covalently linked to these phycobiliproteins by a thioether bond.

References

Bilanes
(Linear)

Phytobilins

Phytochromobilin

Phycobilins	Phycoerythrobilin · Phycocyanobilin · Phycourobilin · Phycoviolobilin

Protoporphyrins	Protoporphyrin IX · Heme (b, c, a, o) · Zinc protoporphyrin · Magnesium protoporphyrin

Phytoporphyrins	Chlorophyll c1 · Chlorophyll c2 · Protochlorophyllide

Reduced
porphyrins

Porphyrinogens	Uroporphyrinogen (I, III) · Coproporphyrinogen (I, III) · Protoporphyrinogen IX

Chlorins	Chlorophyllide (a, b) · Chlorophyll (a, b) · Phaeophytin (a, b) · Bacteriochlorophyll c

Bacteriochlorins	Bacteriochlorophyll a

Isobacteriochlorins	Siroheme · Sirohydrochlorin

Corphins	Cofactor F430

biochemical families: prot · nucl · carb (glpr, alco, glys) · lipd (fata/i, phld, strd, gllp, eico) · amac/i · ncbs/i · ttpy/i