Exploring how shade-adapted plants harvest light—with PhytoAB antibodies!

Isolating photosynthetic supercomplexes while preserving their light-harvesting antennae is challenging. In Photosynthesis Research, Hao and colleagues optimized an α-DDM/digitonin method that improved LHCII retention and reduced photosystem I co-isolation from Fittonia albivenis. The approach also worked in Epipremnum aureum and Hygrophila difformis.

PhytoAB’s Lhcb1/3 antibody (PHY0085A) was used in Western blotting to assess light-harvesting antenna proteins in the isolated fractions. Together with PSII core detection and other analyses, these results supported preservation of PSII–LHCII associations.

The researchers also used PhytoAB’s goat anti-rabbit IgG H&L secondary antibody (PHY6000) for immunoblot detection.

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Lhcb1/3 PHY0085A

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Goat Anti-Rabbit IgG H&L (HRP) PHY6000

Studying light harvesting, thylakoid proteins, or photosynthetic complexes? Explore PhytoAB antibodies for your research.

Hao, C., et al. (2026). Optimization of thylakoid solubilization for PSII–LHCII supercomplex isolation from shade-adapted Fittonia albivenis. Photosynthesis Research, 164, 53.