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Miloslavina YA, Thomas B, Reus M, Gupta KBSS, Oostergetel GT, Andreas LB, Holzwarth AR, de Groot HJM. Contrasting packing modes for tubular assemblies in chlorosomes. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2024; 161:105-115. [PMID: 38538911 PMCID: PMC11269348 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-024-01089-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2023] [Accepted: 02/27/2024] [Indexed: 07/25/2024]
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The largest light-harvesting antenna in nature, the chlorosome, is a heterogeneous helical BChl self-assembly that has evolved in green bacteria to harvest light for performing photosynthesis in low-light environments. Guided by NMR chemical shifts and distance constraints for Chlorobaculum tepidum wild-type chlorosomes, the two contrasting packing modes for syn-anti parallel stacks of BChl c to form polar 2D arrays, with dipole moments adding up, are explored. Layered assemblies were optimized using local orbital density functional and plane wave pseudopotential methods. The packing mode with the lowest energy contains syn-anti and anti-syn H-bonding between stacks. It can accommodate R and S epimers, and side chain variability. For this packing, a match with the available EM data on the subunit axial repeat and optical data is obtained with multiple concentric cylinders for a rolling vector with the stacks running at an angle of 21° to the cylinder axis and with the BChl dipole moments running at an angle ß ∼ 55° to the tube axis, in accordance with optical data. A packing mode involving alternating syn and anti parallel stacks that is at variance with EM appears higher in energy. A weak cross-peak at -6 ppm in the MAS NMR with 50 kHz spinning, assigned to C-181, matches the shift of antiparallel dimers, which possibly reflects a minor impurity-type fraction in the self-assembled BChl c.
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- Yuliya A Miloslavina
- Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Box 9502, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Max-Planck-Institut für Multidisziplinäre Naturwissenschaften, Am Faßberg 11, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
- Eduard-Zintl-Institut für Anorganische and Physikalische Chemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Alarich-Weiss-Str, 64287, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Box 9502, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Science Division, New York University Abu Dhabi, P.O. Box 129188, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Energiekonversion, Stiftstr. 34-36, Mülheim a. d. Ruhr, Germany
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- Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Multidisziplinäre Naturwissenschaften, Am Faßberg 11, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Energiekonversion, Stiftstr. 34-36, Mülheim a. d. Ruhr, Germany
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Box 9502, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Yakovlev AG, Taisova AS, Fetisova ZG. Low-Frequency Oscillations of Bacteriochlorophyll Oligomers in Chlorosomes of Photosynthetic Green Bacteria. BIOCHEMISTRY. BIOKHIMIIA 2023; 88:2084-2093. [PMID: 38462452 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297923120118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2023] [Revised: 07/17/2023] [Accepted: 09/18/2023] [Indexed: 03/12/2024]
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In green photosynthetic bacteria, light is absorbed by bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) c/d/e oligomers, which are located in chlorosomes - unique structures created by Nature to collect the energy of very weak light fluxes. Using coherent femtosecond spectroscopy at cryogenic temperature, we detected and studied low-frequency vibrational motions of BChl c oligomers in chlorosomes of the green bacteria Chloroflexus (Cfx.) aurantiacus. The objects of the study were chlorosomes isolated from the bacterial cultures grown under different light intensity. It was found that the Fourier spectrum of low-frequency coherent oscillations in the Qy band of BChl c oligomers depends on the light intensity used for the growth of bacteria. It turned out that the number of low-frequency vibrational modes of chlorosomes increases as illumination under which they were cultivated decreases. Also, the frequency range within which these modes are observed expands, and frequencies of the most modes change. Theoretical modeling of the obtained data and analysis of the literature led to conclusion that the structural basis of Cfx. aurantiacus chlorosomes are short linear chains of BChl c combined into more complex structures. Increase in the length of these chains in chlorosomes grown under weaker light leads to the observed changes in the spectrum of vibrations of BChl c oligomers. This increase is an effective mechanism for bacteria adaptation to changing external conditions.
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- Andrei G Yakovlev
- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia.
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia
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Li X, Buda F, de Groot HJ, Sevink GJA. The role of chirality and plastic crystallinity in the optical and mechanical properties of chlorosomes. iScience 2022; 25:103618. [PMID: 35005556 PMCID: PMC8719020 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.103618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2021] [Revised: 11/15/2021] [Accepted: 12/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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The most efficient light-harvesting antennae found in nature, chlorosomes, are molecular tubular aggregates (TMAs) assembled by pigments without protein scaffolds. Here, we discuss a classification of chlorosomes as a unique tubular plastic crystal and we attribute the robust energy transfer in chlorosomes to this unique nature. To systematically study the role of supramolecular tube chirality by molecular simulation, a role that has remained unresolved, we share a protocol for generating realistic tubes at atomic resolution. We find that both the optical and the mechanical behavior are strongly dependent on chirality. The optical-chirality relation enables a direct interpretation of experimental spectra in terms of overall tube chirality. The mechanical response shows that the overall chirality regulates the hardness of the tube and provides a new characteristic for relating chlorosomes to distinct chirality. Our protocol also applies to other TMA systems and will inspire other systematic studies beyond lattice models. Classifies chlorosomes in terms of a tubular plastic crystal phase Clarifies the unique strategy of chlorosomes for harvesting and transporting energy Presents a protocol for building atom-resolved helical tube structures Maps tube chirality directly to measurable optical and mechanical responses
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- Xinmeng Li
- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 55, 2300 RA Leiden, South Holland, the Netherlands
- Department of Chemistry and Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, P.O.Box 1033, Blindern, Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway
- Corresponding author
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 55, 2300 RA Leiden, South Holland, the Netherlands
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 55, 2300 RA Leiden, South Holland, the Netherlands
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- Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 55, 2300 RA Leiden, South Holland, the Netherlands
- Corresponding author
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Utilization of blue-green light by chlorosomes from the photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus: Ultrafast excitation energy conversion and transfer. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2021; 1862:148396. [PMID: 33581107 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2021.148396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2020] [Revised: 02/01/2021] [Accepted: 02/05/2021] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Chlorosomes of photosynthetic green bacteria are unique molecular assemblies providing efficient light harvesting followed by multi-step transfer of excitation energy to reaction centers. In each chlorosome, 104-105 bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) c/d/e molecules are organized by self-assembly into high-ordered aggregates. We studied the early-time dynamics of the excitation energy flow and energy conversion in chlorosomes isolated from Chloroflexus (Cfx.) aurantiacus bacteria by pump-probe spectroscopy with 30-fs temporal resolution at room temperature. Both the S2 state of carotenoids (Cars) and the Soret states of BChl c were excited at ~490 nm, and absorption changes were probed at 400-900 nm. A global analysis of spectroscopy data revealed that the excitation energy transfer (EET) from Cars to BChl c aggregates occurred within ~100 fs, and the Soret → Q energy conversion in BChl c occurred faster within ~40 fs. This conclusion was confirmed by a detailed comparison of the early exciton dynamics in chlorosomes with different content of Cars. These processes are accompanied by excitonic and vibrational relaxation within 100-270 fs. The well-known EET from BChl c to the baseplate BChl a proceeded on a ps time-scale. We showed that the S1 state of Cars does not participate in EET. We discussed the possible presence (or absence) of an intermediate state that might mediates the Soret → Qy internal conversion in chlorosomal BChl c. We discussed a possible relationship between the observed exciton dynamics and the structural heterogeneity of chlorosomes.
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Yakovlev AG, Taisova AS, Fetisova ZG. Q-band hyperchromism and B-band hypochromism of bacteriochlorophyll c as a tool for investigation of the oligomeric structure of chlorosomes of the green photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2020; 146:95-108. [PMID: 31939070 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-019-00707-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2019] [Accepted: 12/31/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Chlorosomes of green photosynthetic bacteria are the most amazing example of long-range ordered natural light-harvesting antennae. Chlorosomes are the largest among all known photosynthetic light-harvesting structures (~ 104-105 pigments in the aggregated state). The chlorosomal bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) c/d/e molecules are organized via self-assembly and do not require proteins to provide a scaffold for efficient light harvesting. Despite numerous investigations, a consensus regarding the spatial structure of chlorosomal antennae has not yet been reached. In the present work, we studied hyperchromism/hypochromism in the chlorosomal BChl c Q/B absorption bands of the green photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus (Cfx.) aurantiacus. The chlorosomes were isolated from cells grown under different light intensities and therefore, as we discovered earlier, they had different sizes of both BChl c antennae and their unit building blocks. We have shown experimentally that the Q-/B-band hyperchromism/hypochromism is proportional to the size of the chlorosomal antenna. We explained theoretically these findings in terms of excitonic intensity borrowing between the Q and B bands for the J-/H-aggregates of the BChls. The theory developed by Gülen (Photosynth Res 87:205-214, 2006) showed the dependence of the Q-/B-band hyperchromism/hypochromism on the structure of the aggregates. For the model of exciton-coupled BChl c linear chains within a unit building block, the theory predicted an increase in the hyperchromism/hypochromism with the increase in the number of molecules per chain and a decrease in it with the increase in the number of chains. It was previously shown that this model ensured a good fit with spectroscopy experiments and approximated the BChl c low packing density in vivo. The presented experimental and theoretical studies of the Q-/B-band hyperchromism/hypochromism permitted us to conclude that the unit building block of Cfx. aurantiacus chlorosomes comprises of several short BChl c chains.This conclusion is in accordance with previous linear and nonlinear spectroscopy studies on Cfx. aurantiacus chlorosomes.
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- Andrei G Yakovlev
- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, Russian Federation, 119991.
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, Russian Federation, 119991
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, Russian Federation, 119991.
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Yakovlev A, Taisova A, Shuvalov V, Fetisova Z. Estimation of the bacteriochlorophyll c oligomerisation extent in Chloroflexus aurantiacus chlorosomes by very low-frequency vibrations of the pigment molecules: A new approach. Biophys Chem 2018; 240:1-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2018.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2018] [Revised: 05/14/2018] [Accepted: 05/19/2018] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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Yakovlev A, Taisova A, Arutyunyan A, Shuvalov V, Fetisova Z. Variability of aggregation extent of light-harvesting pigments in peripheral antenna of Chloroflexus aurantiacus. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2017; 133:343-356. [PMID: 28361448 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-017-0374-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2016] [Accepted: 03/21/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The stationary ground state and femtosecond time-resolved absorption spectra as well as spectra of circular dichroism were measured at room temperature using freshly prepared samples of chlorosomes isolated from fresh cultures of the green bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Cultures were grown by using as inoculum the same seed culture but under different light conditions. All measured spectra clearly showed the red shift of BChl c Qy bands (up to 5 nm) for low-light chlorosomes as compared to high-light ones, together with concomitant narrowing of these bands and increasing of their amplitudes. The sizes of the unit BChl c aggregates of the high-light-chlorosomes and the low-light ones were estimated. The fit of all experimental spectra was obtained within the framework of our model proposed before (Fetisova et al., Biophys J 71:995-101, 1996). The model assumes that a unit building block of the BChl c antenna has a form of a tubular aggregate of L = 6 linear single or double exciton-coupled pigment chains within a rod element, with the pigment packing density, approximating that in vivo. The simultaneous fit of all experimental spectra gave the number of pigments in each individual linear pigment chain N = 4 and N = 6 for the high-light and the low-light BChl c unit building blocks, respectively. The size of a unit building block in the BChl c antenna was found to vary from L × N = 24 to L × N = 36 exciton-coupled BChl c molecules being governed by the growth-light intensity. All sets of findings for Chloroflexus aurantiacus chlorosomes demonstrated the biologically expedient light-controlled variability, predicted by us, of the extent of BChl c aggregation within a unit building block in this antenna.
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- Andrei Yakovlev
- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, Russian Federation, 119991.
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, Russian Federation, 119991
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, Russian Federation, 119991
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- Institute of Basic Biological Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russian Federation, 142290
- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, Russian Federation, 119991
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, Russian Federation, 119991.
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Jendrny M, Aartsma TJ, Köhler J. Insights into the excitonic states of individual chlorosomes from Chlorobaculum tepidum. Biophys J 2014; 106:1921-7. [PMID: 24806924 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.03.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2013] [Revised: 02/26/2014] [Accepted: 03/14/2014] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Green-sulfur bacteria have evolved a unique light-harvesting apparatus, the chlorosome, by which it is perfectly adapted to thrive photosynthetically under extremely low light conditions. We have used single-particle, optical spectroscopy to study the structure-function relationship of chlorosomes each of which incorporates hundreds of thousands of self-assembled bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) molecules. The electronically excited states of these molecular assemblies are described as Frenkel excitons whose photophysical properties depend crucially on the mutual arrangement of the pigments. The signature of these Frenkel excitons and its relation to the supramolecular organization of the chlorosome becomes accessible by optical spectroscopy. Because subtle spectral features get obscured by ensemble averaging, we have studied individual chlorosomes from wild-type Chlorobaculum tepidum by polarization-resolved fluorescence-excitation spectroscopy. This approach minimizes the inherent sample heterogeneity and allows us to reveal properties of the exciton states without ensemble averaging. The results are compared with predictions from computer simulations of various models of the supramolecular organization of the BChl monomers. We find that the photophysical properties of individual chlorosomes from wild-type Chlorobaculum tepidum are consistent with a (multiwall) helical arrangement of syn-anti stacked BChl molecules in cylinders and/or spirals of different size.
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- Marc Jendrny
- Experimental Physics IV and Bayreuth Institute of Macromolecular Research (BIMF), Universität Bayreuth, Universitätsstr. 30, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 2, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Experimental Physics IV and Bayreuth Institute of Macromolecular Research (BIMF), Universität Bayreuth, Universitätsstr. 30, Bayreuth, Germany.
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Linnanto JM, Korppi-Tommola JEI. Exciton Description of Chlorosome to Baseplate Excitation Energy Transfer in Filamentous Anoxygenic Phototrophs and Green Sulfur Bacteria. J Phys Chem B 2013; 117:11144-61. [DOI: 10.1021/jp4011394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Juha M. Linnanto
- Department of Chemistry, P.O.
Box 35, University of Jyväskylä, FIN-40014, Finland
- University of Tartu, Institute of Physics, Riia 142,
EE-51014 Tartu, Estonia
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Linnanto JM, Korppi-Tommola JEI. Investigation on chlorosomal antenna geometries: tube, lamella and spiral-type self-aggregates. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2008; 96:227-245. [PMID: 18443917 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-008-9304-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2007] [Accepted: 04/07/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Molecular mechanics calculations and exciton theory have been used to study pigment organization in chlorosomes of green bacteria. Single and double rod, multiple concentric rod, lamella, and Archimedean spiral macrostructures of bacteriochlorophyll c molecules were created and their spectral properties evaluated. The effects of length, width, diameter, and curvature of the macrostructures as well as orientations of monomeric transition dipole moment vectors on the spectral properties of the aggregates were studied. Calculated absorption, linear dichroism, and polarization dependent fluorescence-excitation spectra of the studied long macrostructures were practically identical, but circular dichroism spectra turned out to be very sensitive to geometry and monomeric transition dipole moment orientations of the aggregates. The simulations for long multiple rod and spiral-type macrostructures, observed in recent high-resolution electron microscopy images (Oostergetel et al., FEBS Lett 581:5435-5439, 2007) gave shapes of circular dichroism spectra observed experimentally for chlorosomes. It was shown that the ratio of total circular dichroism intensity to integrated absorption of the Q(y) transition is a good measure of degree of tubular structures in the chlorosomes. Calculations suggest that the broad Q(y) line width of chlorosomes of sulfur bacteria could be due to (1) different orientations of the transition moment vectors in multi-walled rod structures or (2) a variety of Bchl-aggregate structures in the chlorosomes.
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- Juha M Linnanto
- Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.
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Novikov AA, Taisova AS, Fetisova ZG. Optimal spectral coordination of subantennae in natural antennae as an efficient strategy for light harvesting in photosynthesis. J Bioinform Comput Biol 2006; 4:887-909. [PMID: 17007073 DOI: 10.1142/s021972000600220x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2005] [Revised: 04/11/2006] [Accepted: 04/21/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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This work continues a series of our investigations on efficient strategies of functioning of natural light-harvesting antennae, initiated by a concept of rigorous optimization of photosynthetic apparatus by functional criterion, and deals with the problem of an optimal spectral coordination of subantennae in photosynthetic superantenna of the green bacterium Oscillochloris trichoides from a new family of green bacteria Oscillochloridaceae based in 2000. At present, two subantennae were identified surely: chlorosomal BChl c subantenna B750 and membrane BChl a subantennae B805-860. Some indirect experiments indicated on the presence of minor amounts of BChl a in isolated chlorosomes which allowed us to propose on the existence of an intermediate-energy subantenna which can connect the chlorosomal BChl c and the membrane BChl a ones. However, in the absorption spectra of isolated chlorosomes, this BChl a subantenna was not visually identified. This promoted us to perform a theoretical analysis of the optimality of spectral coordination of Oscillochloris trichoides subantennae. Using mathematical modeling for the functioning of the natural superantenna, we showed that an intermediate-energy subantenna, connecting B750 and B805-860 ones, allows one to control superantenna efficiency, i.e. to optimize the excitation energy transfer from B750 to B805 by functional criterion, and hence, the existence of such intermediate-energy subantenna is biologically expedient.
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- A A Novikov
- Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Faculty, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia
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Reinot T, Zazubovich V, Hayes JM, Small GJ. New Insights on Persistent Nonphotochemical Hole Burning and Its Application to Photosynthetic Complexes. J Phys Chem B 2001. [DOI: 10.1021/jp010126y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Tonu Reinot
- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory-U.S. Department of Energy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory-U.S. Department of Energy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory-U.S. Department of Energy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011
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- Department of Chemistry and Ames Laboratory-U.S. Department of Energy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011
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Novoderezhkin V, Taisova A, Fetisova ZG. Unit building block of the oligomeric chlorosomal antenna of the green photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus: modeling of nonlinear optical spectra. Chem Phys Lett 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/s0009-2614(01)00045-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Jankowiak R, Zazubovich V, Rätsep M, Matsuzaki S, Alfonso M, Picorel R, Seibert M, Small GJ. The CP43 Core Antenna Complex of Photosystem II Possesses Two Quasi-Degenerate and Weakly Coupled Qy-Trap States. J Phys Chem B 2000. [DOI: 10.1021/jp0025431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- R. Jankowiak
- Ames Laboratory-USDOE and Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, E. E. Aula Dei, CSIC, 50080-Zaragoza, Spain, and National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, Colorado 80401
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- Ames Laboratory-USDOE and Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, E. E. Aula Dei, CSIC, 50080-Zaragoza, Spain, and National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, Colorado 80401
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- Ames Laboratory-USDOE and Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, E. E. Aula Dei, CSIC, 50080-Zaragoza, Spain, and National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, Colorado 80401
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- Ames Laboratory-USDOE and Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, E. E. Aula Dei, CSIC, 50080-Zaragoza, Spain, and National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, Colorado 80401
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- Ames Laboratory-USDOE and Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, E. E. Aula Dei, CSIC, 50080-Zaragoza, Spain, and National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, Colorado 80401
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- Ames Laboratory-USDOE and Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, E. E. Aula Dei, CSIC, 50080-Zaragoza, Spain, and National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, Colorado 80401
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- Ames Laboratory-USDOE and Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, E. E. Aula Dei, CSIC, 50080-Zaragoza, Spain, and National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, Colorado 80401
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- Ames Laboratory-USDOE and Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, E. E. Aula Dei, CSIC, 50080-Zaragoza, Spain, and National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, Colorado 80401
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Prokhorenko VI, Steensgaard DB, Holzwarth AR. Exciton dynamics in the chlorosomal antennae of the green bacteria Chloroflexus aurantiacus and Chlorobium tepidum. Biophys J 2000; 79:2105-20. [PMID: 11023914 PMCID: PMC1301100 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(00)76458-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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The energy transfer processes in isolated chlorosomes from green bacteria Chlorobium tepidum and Chloroflexus aurantiacus have been studied at low temperatures (1.27 K) by two-pulse photon echo and one-color transient absorption techniques with approximately 100 fs resolution. The decay of the coherence in both types of chlorosomes is characterized by four different dephasing times stretching from approximately 100 fs up to 300 ps. The fastest component reflects dephasing that is due to interaction of bacteriochlorophylls with the phonon bath, whereas the other components correspond to dephasing due to different energy transfer processes such as distribution of excitation along the rod-like aggregates, energy exchange between different rods in the chlorosome, and energy transfer to the base plate. As a basis for the interpretation of the excitation dephasing and energy transfer pathways, a superlattice-like structural model is proposed based on recent experimental data and computer modeling of the Bchl c aggregates (1994. Photosynth. Res. 41:225-233.) This model predicts a fine structure of the Q(y) absorption band that is fully supported by the present photon echo data.
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- V I Prokhorenko
- Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie, D-45413, Mülheim a.d. Ruhr, Germany
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Wu HM, Rätsep M, Young CS, Jankowiak R, Blankenship RE, Small GJ. High-pressure and stark hole-burning studies of chlorosome antennas from Chlorobium tepidum. Biophys J 2000; 79:1561-72. [PMID: 10969017 PMCID: PMC1301049 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(00)76407-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Results from high-pressure and Stark hole-burning experiments on isolated chlorosomes from the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum are presented, as well as Stark hole-burning data for bacteriochlorophyll c (BChl c) monomers in a poly(vinyl butyral) copolymer film. Large linear pressure shift rates of -0.44 and -0.54 cm(-1)/MPa were observed for the chlorosome BChl c Q(y)-band at 100 K and the lowest Q(y)-exciton level at 12 K, respectively. It is argued that approximately half of the latter shift rate is due to electron exchange coupling between BChl c molecules. The similarity between the above shift rates and those observed for the B875 and B850 BChl a rings of the light-harvesting complexes of purple bacteria is emphasized. For BChl c monomer, fDeltamu++ = 0.35 D, where Deltamu+ is the dipole moment change for the Q(y) transition and f is the local field correction factor. The data establish that Deltamu+ is dominated by the matrix-induced contribution. The change in polarizability (Deltaalpha) for the Q(y) transition of the BChl c monomer is estimated at 19 A(3), which is essentially identical to that of the Chl a monomer. Interestingly, no Stark effects were observed for the lowest exciton level of the chlorosomes (maximum Stark field of 10(5) V/cm). Possible explanations for this are given, and these include consideration of structural models for the chlorosome BChl c aggregates.
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- H M Wu
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA
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Mauring K, Novoderezhkin V, Taisova A, Fetisova Z. Exciton levels structure of antenna bacteriochlorophyll c aggregates in the green bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus as probed by 1.8-293 K fluorescence spectroscopy. FEBS Lett 1999; 456:239-42. [PMID: 10456316 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(99)00953-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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We have demonstrated temperature-dependence of the steady-state fluorescence lineshape of the bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) c band measured for intact cells of the green bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus over the 1.8-293 K range. The measured temperature-dependence has been shown to be in good agreement with the theoretical one, calculated for our original model of pigment organization in the chlorosomal oligomeric antenna of green photosynthetic bacteria based on spectral hole-burning studies (Fetisova, Z.G. et al. (1996) Biophys. J. 71, 995-1010). This model implies that the BChl c antenna unit is a tubular aggregate of six exciton-coupled linear pigment chains having the exciton level structure with strongly allowed higher levels.
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- K Mauring
- Institute of Physics, Tartu, Estonia
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Fidy J, Laberge M, Kaposi AD, Vanderkooi JM. Fluorescence line narrowing applied to the study of proteins. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1998; 1386:331-51. [PMID: 9733992 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(98)00101-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Fluorescence line narrowing is a high resolution spectroscopic technique that uses low temperature and laser excitation to optically select specific subpopulations from the inhomogeneously broadened absorption band of the sample. When applied to the study of fluorescent groups in proteins one can obtain vibronically resolved spectra, which can be analyzed to give information on spectral line shapes, vibrational energies of both the ground and excited state molecule, and the inhomogeneous distribution function of the electronic transitions. These parameters reveal information about the chromophoric prosthetic group and the protein matrix and are functions of geometric strains and local electric fields imposed by the protein. Examples of the use of fluorescence line narrowing are discussed in investigations of heme proteins, photosynthetic systems and tryptophan-containing proteins.
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- J Fidy
- Johnson Research Foundation, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA.
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Savikhin S, Buck DR, Struve WS, Blankenship RE, Taisova AS, Novoderezhkin VI, Fetisova ZG. Excitation delocalization in the bacteriochlorophyll c antenna of the green bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus as revealed by ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy. FEBS Lett 1998; 430:323-6. [PMID: 9688564 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(98)00691-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Room temperature absorption difference spectra were measured on the femtosecond through picosecond time scales for chlorosomes isolated from the green bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Anomalously high values of photoinduced absorption changes were revealed in the BChl c Qy transition band. Photoinduced absorption changes at the bleaching peak in the BChl c band were found to be 7-8 times greater than those at the bleaching peak in the BChl a band of the chlorosome. This appears to be the first direct experimental proof of excitation delocalization over many BChl c antenna molecules in the chlorosome.
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- S Savikhin
- Ames Laboratory-USDOE and Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, 50011, USA
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Pšenčík J, Polívka T, Němec P, Dian J, Kudrna J, Malý P, Hála J. Fast Energy Transfer and Exciton Dynamics in Chlorosomes of the Green Sulfur Bacterium Chlorobium tepidum. J Phys Chem A 1998. [DOI: 10.1021/jp973227y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Jakub Pšenčík
- Department of Chemical Physics and Optics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 3, 121 16, Prague 2, Czech Republic, and Department of Chemical Physics, Lund University, Box 124, 22100 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Chemical Physics and Optics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 3, 121 16, Prague 2, Czech Republic, and Department of Chemical Physics, Lund University, Box 124, 22100 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Chemical Physics and Optics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 3, 121 16, Prague 2, Czech Republic, and Department of Chemical Physics, Lund University, Box 124, 22100 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Chemical Physics and Optics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 3, 121 16, Prague 2, Czech Republic, and Department of Chemical Physics, Lund University, Box 124, 22100 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Chemical Physics and Optics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 3, 121 16, Prague 2, Czech Republic, and Department of Chemical Physics, Lund University, Box 124, 22100 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Chemical Physics and Optics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 3, 121 16, Prague 2, Czech Republic, and Department of Chemical Physics, Lund University, Box 124, 22100 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Chemical Physics and Optics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 3, 121 16, Prague 2, Czech Republic, and Department of Chemical Physics, Lund University, Box 124, 22100 Lund, Sweden
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Fetisova Z, Freiberg A, Mauring K, Novoderezhkin V, Taisova A, Timpmann K. Excitation energy transfer in chlorosomes of green bacteria: theoretical and experimental studies. Biophys J 1996; 71:995-1010. [PMID: 8842237 PMCID: PMC1233555 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(96)79301-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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A theory of excitation energy transfer within the chlorosomal antennae of green bacteria has been developed for an exciton model of aggregation of bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) c (d or e). This model of six exciton-coupled BChl chains with low packing density, approximating that in vivo, and interchain distances of approximately 2 nm was generated to yield the key spectral features found in natural antennae, i.e., the exciton level structure revealed by spectral hole burning experiments and polarization of all the levels parallel to the long axis of the chlorosome. With picosecond fluorescence spectroscopy it was demonstrated that the theory explains the antenna-size-dependent kinetics of fluorescence decay in chlorosomal antenna, measured for intact cells of different cultures of the green bacterium C. aurantiacus, with different chlorosomal antenna size determined by electron microscopic examination of the ultrathin sections of the cells. The data suggest a possible mechanism of excitation energy transfer within the chlorosome that implies the formation of a cylindrical exciton, delocalized over a tubular aggregate of BChl c chains, and Forster-type transfer of such a cylindrical exciton between the nearest tubular BChl c aggregates as well as to BChl a of the baseplate.
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- Z Fetisova
- A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Russia.
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Fetisova Z, Freiberg A, Novoderezhkin V, Taisova A, Timpmann K. Antenna size dependent exciton dynamics in the chlorosomal antenna of the green bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. FEBS Lett 1996; 383:233-6. [PMID: 8925903 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(96)00164-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Using picosecond fluorescence spectroscopy, we demonstrated antenna size dependent exciton dynamics in chlorosomal antenna, measured for intact cells of different cultures of the green bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus with different chlorosomal antenna size determined by electron microscopic examination of ultrathin sections of the cells. The measured bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) c excitation lifetimes show a quasilinear dependence on chlorosome size as predicted in our model for cylindrical exciton migration within the three-dimensional chlorosomal antenna. The migration model was developed for the proposed exciton model of chlorosomal BChl c aggregation. The data predict the time constant values for excitation energy transfer between BChl c aggregates as well as to BChl a of the baseplate.
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- Z Fetisova
- A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Russia
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P Sen Cík J, Vácha M, Adamec FS, Ambro Z M, Dian J, Bo Cek J, Hála J. Hole burning study of excited state structure and energy transfer dynamics of bacteriochlorophyll c in chlorosomes of green sulphur photosynthetic bacteria. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 1994; 42:1-8. [PMID: 24307462 DOI: 10.1007/bf00019052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/1993] [Accepted: 05/06/1994] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Results of low temperature fluorescence and spectral hole burning experiments with whole cells and isolated chlorosomes of the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium limicola containing BChl c are reported. At least two spectral forms of BChl c (short-wavelength and long-wavelength absorbing BChl c) were identified in the second derivative fluorescence spectra. The widths of persistent holes burned in the fluorescence spectrum of BChl c are determined by excited state lifetimes due to fast energy transfer. Different excited state lifetimes for both BChl c forms were observed. A site distribution function of the lowest excited state of chlorosomal BChl c was revealed. The excited state lifetimes are strongly influenced by redox conditions of the solution. At anaerobic conditions the lifetime of 5.3 ps corresponds to the rate of energy transfer between BChl c clusters. This time shortens to 2.6 ps at aerobic conditions. The shortening may be caused by introducing a quencher. Spectral bands observed in the fluorescence of isolated chlorosomes were attributed to monomeric and lower state aggregates of BChl c. These forms are not functionally connected with the chlorosome.
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- J P Sen Cík
- Department of Chemical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics & Physics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 3, 121 16, Prague2, Czech Republic
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Fetisova ZG, Mauring K, Taisova AS. Strongly exciton-coupled BChle chromophore system in the chlorosomal antenna of intact cells of the green bacteriumChlorobium phaeovibrioides: A spectral hole burning study. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 1994; 41:205-210. [PMID: 24310027 DOI: 10.1007/bf02184161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/1993] [Accepted: 03/10/1994] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Spectral hole burning studies of intact cells of the green bacteriumChlorobium phaeovibrioides have proven that the Qy-absorption system of antenna bacteriochlorophylle (BChle) should be interpreted in terms of the delocalized exciton level structure of an aggregate. For the first time the 0-0 band of the lowest exciton state of BChle aggregates has been directly detected as the lowest energy inhomogeneously broadened band (FWHM ∼ 100 cm(-1); position of maximum, at ∼ 739 nm) of the near-infrared BChle band in the 1.8 K excitation spectrum (FWHM=750 cm(-1); position of maximum, at 715 nm). The comparative analysis of the hole spectra, measured for the three species of BChlc- ande-containing green bacteria, has shown that the 0-0 transition bands of the lowest exciton state of BChlc ande aggregates display fundamentally similar spectral features: (1) the magnitude of inhomogeneous broadening of these bands is about 100 cm(-1); (2) at the wavelength of the maximum of each band, the amplitude of the preburnt excitation spectrum makes up 20% of the maximum amplitude of the spectrum; (3) the spectral position of each band coincides with the spectral position of the longest wavelength band of the circular dichroism spectrum; (4) the width of these bands is ∼ 2.3-times less than that of monomeric BChl in vitro.
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- Z G Fetisova
- A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Bldg. A, 119899, Moscow, Russia
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