# Deceased. Cryptophyte algae belong to a special group of oxygenic photosynthetic organisms containing pigment combination unique for plastids - phycobiliproteins and chlorophyll a/c-containing antenna. Despite the progress in investigation of morphological and ecological features, as well as genome-based systematics of cryptophytes, their photosynthetic apparatus remains poorly understood. The ratio of the photosystems (PS)s I and II is unknown and information on participation of the two antennal complexes in functions of the two photosystems is inconsistent. In the present work we demonstrated for the first time that the cryptophyte alga Rhodomonas salina had the PSI to PSII ratio in thylakoid membranes equal to 1 : 4, whereas this ratio in cyanobacteria and higher plants was known to be 3 : 1 and 1 : 1, respectively. Furthermore, it was established that contrary to the case of cyanobacteria the phycobiliprotein antenna represented by phycoerythrin-545 (PE-545) in R. salina was associated only with the PSII, which indicated specific spatial organization of these protein pigments within the thylakoids that did not facilitate interaction with the PSI.
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