Light‐controlled carotenoid transfer between water‐soluble proteins related to cyanobacterial photoprotection

Carotenoids are lipophilic pigments with multiple biological functions from coloration to vision and photoprotection. Still, the number of water-soluble carotenoid-binding proteins described to date is limited, and carotenoid transport and carotenoprotein maturation processes are largely underexplored. Recent studies revealed that CTDHs, which are natural homologs of the C-terminal domain (CTD) of the orange carotenoid protein (OCP), a...