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Schmitt FJ, Hüls A, Moldenhauer M, Friedrich T. How electron tunneling and uphill excitation energy transfer support photochemistry in Halomicronema hongdechloris. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2024; 159:273-289. [PMID: 38198121 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-023-01064-4] [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: 05/31/2023] [Accepted: 11/13/2023] [Indexed: 01/11/2024]
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Halomicronema hongdechloris, the first cyanobacterium reported to produce the red-shifted chlorophyll f (Chl f) upon acclimation to far-red light, demonstrates remarkable adaptability to diverse light conditions. The photosystem II (PS II) of this organism undergoes reversible changes in its Chl f content, ranging from practically zero under white-light culture conditions to a Chl f: Chl a ratio of up to 1:8 when exposed to far-red light (FRL) of 720-730 nm for several days. Our ps time- and wavelength-resolved fluorescence data obtained after excitation of living H. hongdechloris cells indicate that the Soret band of a far-red (FR) chlorophyll involved in charge separation absorbs around 470 nm. At 10 K, the fluorescence decay at 715-720 nm is still fast with a time constant of 165 ps indicating an efficient electron tunneling process. There is efficient excitation energy transfer (EET) from 715-720 nm to 745 nm with the latter resulting from FR Chl f, which mainly functions as light-harvesting pigment upon adaptation to FRL. From there, excitation energy reaches the primary donor in the reaction center of PS II with an energetic uphill EET mechanism inducing charge transfer. The fluorescence data are well explained with a secondary donor PD1 represented by a red-shifted Chl a molecule with characteristic fluorescence around 715 nm and a more red-shifted FR Chl f with fluorescence around 725 nm as primary donor at the ChlD1 or PD2 position.
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- Franz-Josef Schmitt
- Department of Physics, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Von-Danckelmann-Platz 3, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany.
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- Department of Bioenergetics, Institute of Chemistry PC 14, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Bioenergetics, Institute of Chemistry PC 14, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Bioenergetics, Institute of Chemistry PC 14, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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Golub M, Pieper J. Recent Progress in Solution Structure Studies of Photosynthetic Proteins Using Small-Angle Scattering Methods. Molecules 2023; 28:7414. [PMID: 37959833 PMCID: PMC10650700 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28217414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2023] [Revised: 10/27/2023] [Accepted: 10/27/2023] [Indexed: 11/15/2023] Open
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Utilized for gaining structural insights, small-angle neutron and X-ray scattering techniques (SANS and SAXS, respectively) enable an examination of biomolecules, including photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes, in solution at physiological temperatures. These methods can be seen as instrumental bridges between the high-resolution structural information achieved by crystallography or cryo-electron microscopy and functional explorations conducted in a solution state. The review starts with a comprehensive overview about the fundamental principles and applications of SANS and SAXS, with a particular focus on the recent advancements permitting to enhance the efficiency of these techniques in photosynthesis research. Among the recent developments discussed are: (i) the advent of novel modeling tools whereby a direct connection between SANS and SAXS data and high-resolution structures is created; (ii) the employment of selective deuteration, which is utilized to enhance spatial selectivity and contrast matching; (iii) the potential symbioses with molecular dynamics simulations; and (iv) the amalgamations with functional studies that are conducted to unearth structure-function relationships. Finally, reference is made to time-resolved SANS/SAXS experiments, which enable the monitoring of large-scale structural transformations of proteins in a real-time framework.
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- Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, Wilhelm Ostwald Str. 1, 50411 Tartu, Estonia;
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Phycobilisomes and Phycobiliproteins in the Pigment Apparatus of Oxygenic Photosynthetics: From Cyanobacteria to Tertiary Endosymbiosis. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24032290. [PMID: 36768613 PMCID: PMC9916406 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24032290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2022] [Revised: 01/15/2023] [Accepted: 01/19/2023] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Eukaryotic photosynthesis originated in the course of evolution as a result of the uptake of some unstored cyanobacterium and its transformation to chloroplasts by an ancestral heterotrophic eukaryotic cell. The pigment apparatus of Archaeplastida and other algal phyla that emerged later turned out to be arranged in the same way. Pigment-protein complexes of photosystem I (PS I) and photosystem II (PS II) are characterized by uniform structures, while the light-harvesting antennae have undergone a series of changes. The phycobilisome (PBS) antenna present in cyanobacteria was replaced by Chl a/b- or Chl a/c-containing pigment-protein complexes in most groups of photosynthetics. In the form of PBS or phycobiliprotein aggregates, it was inherited by members of Cyanophyta, Cryptophyta, red algae, and photosynthetic amoebae. Supramolecular organization and architectural modifications of phycobiliprotein antennae in various algal phyla in line with the endosymbiotic theory of chloroplast origin are the subject of this review.
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Sil S, Tilluck RW, Mohan T M N, Leslie CH, Rose JB, Domínguez-Martín MA, Lou W, Kerfeld CA, Beck WF. Excitation energy transfer and vibronic coherence in intact phycobilisomes. Nat Chem 2022; 14:1286-1294. [PMID: 36123451 DOI: 10.1038/s41557-022-01026-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2021] [Accepted: 07/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The phycobilisome is an oligomeric chromoprotein complex that serves as the principal mid-visible light-harvesting system in cyanobacteria. Here we report the observation of excitation-energy-transfer pathways involving delocalized optical excitations of the bilin (linear tetrapyrrole) chromophores in intact phycobilisomes isolated from Fremyella diplosiphon. By using broadband multidimensional electronic spectroscopy with 6.7-fs laser pulses, we are able to follow the progress of excitation energy from the phycoerythrin disks at the ends of the phycobilisome's rods to the C-phycocyanin disks along their length in <600 fs. Oscillation maps show that coherent wavepacket motions prominently involving the hydrogen out-of-plane vibrations of the bilins mediate non-adiabatic relaxation of a manifold of vibronic exciton states. However, the charge-transfer character of the bilins in the allophycocyanin-containing segments localizes the excitations in the core of the phycobilisome, yielding a kinetic bottleneck that enables photoregulatory mechanisms to operate efficiently on the >10-ps timescale.
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- Sourav Sil
- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
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Noji T, Watanabe M, Dewa T, Itoh S, Ikeuchi M. Direct Energy Transfer from Allophycocyanin-Free Rod-Type CpcL-Phycobilisome to Photosystem I. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:6692-6697. [PMID: 34260249 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Phycobilisomes (PBSs) are photosynthetic antenna megacomplexes comprising pigment-binding proteins (cores and rods) joined with linker proteins. A rod-type PBS that does not have a core is connected to photosystem I (PSI) by a CpcL linker protein, which stabilizes a red-form of the phycocyanobilin (red-PCB) in the rod. However, quantitative information on the energy transfer from red-type PBS to PSI has not been determined. Herein, the isolated supercomplex of the rod-type PBS and the PSI tetramer from Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 were probed by time-resolved spectroscopy at 77 K and by decay-associated spectral analysis to show that red-PCB mediates the fast and efficient (time constant = 90 ps, efficiency = 95%) transfer of excitation energy from PCB to chlorophyll a (Chl a). According to the Förster energy transfer mechanism, this high efficiency corresponds to a 4 nm distance between red-PCB and Chl a, suggesting that β-84 PCB in the rod acts as red-PCB.
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- Tomoyasu Noji
- Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences (Biology), Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
- Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences (Biology), Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
- Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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Insights into Solution Structures of Photosynthetic Protein Complexes from Small-Angle Scattering Methods. CRYSTALS 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/cryst11020203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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High-resolution structures of photosynthetic pigment–protein complexes are often determined using crystallography or cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), which are restricted to the use of protein crystals or to low temperatures, respectively. However, functional studies and biotechnological applications of photosystems necessitate the use of proteins isolated in aqueous solution, so that the relevance of high-resolution structures has to be independently verified. In this regard, small-angle neutron and X-ray scattering (SANS and SAXS, respectively) can serve as the missing link because of their capability to provide structural information for proteins in aqueous solution at physiological temperatures. In the present review, we discuss the principles and prototypical applications of SANS and SAXS using the photosynthetic pigment–protein complexes phycocyanin (PC) and Photosystem I (PSI) as model systems for a water-soluble and for a membrane protein, respectively. For example, the solution structure of PSI was studied using SAXS and SANS with contrast matching. A Guinier analysis reveals that PSI in solution is virtually free of aggregation and characterized by a radius of gyration of about 75 Å. The latter value is about 10% larger than expected from the crystal structure. This is corroborated by an ab initio structure reconstitution, which also shows a slight expansion of Photosystem I in buffer solution at room temperature. In part, this may be due to conformational states accessible by thermally activated protein dynamics in solution at physiological temperatures. The size of the detergent belt is derived by comparison with SANS measurements without detergent match, revealing a monolayer of detergent molecules under proper solubilization conditions.
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Sineshchekov VA, Bekasova OD. Two Distinct Photoprocesses in Cyanobacterial Bilin Pigments: Energy Migration in Light‐Harvesting Phycobiliproteins versus Photoisomerization in Phytochromes. Photochem Photobiol 2020; 96:750-767. [DOI: https:/doi.org/10.1111/php.13197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2019] [Accepted: 11/17/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2023]
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AbstractThe evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis, respiration and photoperception are connected with the appearance of cyanobacteria. The key compounds, which are involved in these processes, are tetrapyrroles: open chain — bilins and cyclic — chlorophylls and heme. The latter are characterized by their covalent bond with the apoprotein resulting in the formation of biliproteins. This type of photoreceptors is unique in that it can perform important and opposite functions—light‐harvesting in photosynthesis with the participation of phycobiliproteins and photoperception mediated by phycochromes and phytochromes. In this review, cyanobacterial phycobiliproteins and phytochrome Cph1 are considered from a comparative point of view. Structural features of these pigments, which provide their contrasting photophysical and photochemical characteristics, are analyzed. The determining factor in the case of energy migration with the participation of phycobiliproteins is blocking the torsional relaxations of the chromophore, its D‐ring, in the excited state and their freedom, in the case of phytochrome photoisomerization. From the energetics point of view, this distinction is preconditioned by the height of the activation barrier for the photoreaction and relaxation in the excited state, which depends on the degree of the chromophore fixation by its protein surroundings.
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- Bach Institute of Biochemistry Fundamentals of Biotechnology Federal Research Centre Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow Russia
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Investigations of the Energy Transfer in the Phycobilisome Antenna of Arthrospira platensis Using Femtosecond Spectroscopy. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/app10114045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Understanding the energy transfer in phycobilisomes extracted from cyanobacteria can be used for building biomimetic hybrid systems for optimized solar energy collection and photocurrent amplification. In this paper, we applied time-resolved absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy to investigate the ultrafast dynamics in a hemidiscoidal phycobilisome obtained from Arthrospira platensis. We obtained the steady-state and time-resolved optical properties and identified the possible pathways of the excitation energy transfer in the phycobilisome and its components, phycocyanin and allophycocyanin. The transient absorption data were studied using global analysis and revealed the existence of ultrafast kinetics down to 850 fs in the phycobilisome. The fluorescence lifetimes in the nanosecond time-scale assigned to the final emitters in each sample were obtained from the time-correlated single photon counting fluorescence experiments.
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Sineshchekov VA, Bekasova OD. Two Distinct Photoprocesses in Cyanobacterial Bilin Pigments: Energy Migration in Light-Harvesting Phycobiliproteins versus Photoisomerization in Phytochromes. Photochem Photobiol 2019; 96:750-767. [PMID: 31869438 DOI: 10.1111/php.13197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2019] [Accepted: 11/17/2019] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis, respiration and photoperception are connected with the appearance of cyanobacteria. The key compounds, which are involved in these processes, are tetrapyrroles: open chain - bilins and cyclic - chlorophylls and heme. The latter are characterized by their covalent bond with the apoprotein resulting in the formation of biliproteins. This type of photoreceptors is unique in that it can perform important and opposite functions-light-harvesting in photosynthesis with the participation of phycobiliproteins and photoperception mediated by phycochromes and phytochromes. In this review, cyanobacterial phycobiliproteins and phytochrome Cph1 are considered from a comparative point of view. Structural features of these pigments, which provide their contrasting photophysical and photochemical characteristics, are analyzed. The determining factor in the case of energy migration with the participation of phycobiliproteins is blocking the torsional relaxations of the chromophore, its D-ring, in the excited state and their freedom, in the case of phytochrome photoisomerization. From the energetics point of view, this distinction is preconditioned by the height of the activation barrier for the photoreaction and relaxation in the excited state, which depends on the degree of the chromophore fixation by its protein surroundings.
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- Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Fundamentals of Biotechnology Federal Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Niedzwiedzki DM, Liu H, Blankenship RE. Excitation Energy Transfer in Intact CpcL-Phycobilisomes from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. J Phys Chem B 2019; 123:4695-4704. [PMID: 31042029 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b02696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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This work highlights spectroscopic studies performed on a CpcL-phycobilisome (CpcL-PBS) light-harvesting complex from cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 ΔAB strain. The CpcL-PBS antenna has the form of a single rod made up exclusively of phycocyanins (PCs), a structure that is much simpler compared to the better known and broadly studied CpcG-PBS that consists of a cylindrical core with a set of protruding PC rods. Steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence studies demonstrated that the CpcL-PBS antenna comprises two spectral forms of phycocyanobilin (PCB), one emitting at 650 nm and a second emitting at 670 nm. The latter one presumably serves as the so-called terminal energy emitter without allophycocyanin. Studies of excitation energy migration between those two PCB forms demonstrated that even small buffer alterations, commonly applied by spectroscopists to tweak buffers to be more friendly for a certain type of spectroscopy, may lead to very different experimental outcomes and, in consequence, to differences in models of excitation migration pathway in this antenna complex.
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Niedzwiedzki DM, Bar-Zvi S, Blankenship RE, Adir N. Mapping the excitation energy migration pathways in phycobilisomes from the cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2019; 1860:286-296. [PMID: 30703363 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2019.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2018] [Revised: 12/17/2018] [Accepted: 01/25/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Schmitt FJ, Campbell ZY, Bui MV, Hüls A, Tomo T, Chen M, Maksimov EG, Allakhverdiev SI, Friedrich T. Photosynthesis supported by a chlorophyll f-dependent, entropy-driven uphill energy transfer in Halomicronema hongdechloris cells adapted to far-red light. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2019; 139:185-201. [PMID: 30039357 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-018-0556-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2018] [Accepted: 07/09/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The phototrophic cyanobacterium Halomicronema hongdechloris shows far-red light-induced accumulation of chlorophyll (Chl) f, but the involvement of the pigment in photosynthetic energy harvesting by photosystem (PS) II is controversially discussed. While H. hongdechloris contains negligible amounts of Chl f in white-light culture conditions, the ratio of Chl f to Chl a is reversibly changed up to 1:8 under illumination with far-red light (720-730 nm). We performed UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy, time-integrated and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy for the calculation of decay-associated spectra (DAS) to determine excitation energy transfer (EET) processes between photosynthetic pigments in intact H. hongdechloris filaments. In cells grown under white light, highly efficient EET occurs from phycobilisomes (PBSs) to Chl a with an apparent time constant of about 100 ps. Charge separation occurs with a typical apparent time constant of 200-300 ps from Chl a. After 3-4 days of growth under far-red light, robust Chl f content was observed in H. hongdechloris and EET from PBSs reached Chl f efficiently within 200 ps. It is proposed based on mathematical modeling by rate equation systems for EET between the PBSs and PSII and subsequent electron transfer (ET) that charge separation occurs from Chl a and excitation energy is funneled from Chl f to Chl a via an energetically uphill EET driven by entropy, which is effective because the number of Chl a molecules coupled to Chl f is at least eight- to tenfold larger than the corresponding number of Chl f molecules. The long lifetime of Chl f molecules in contact to a tenfold larger pool of Chl a molecules allows Chl f to act as an intermediate energy storage level, from which the Gibbs free energy difference between Chl f and Chl a can be overcome by taking advantage from the favorable ratio of degeneracy coefficients, which formally represents a significant entropy gain in the Eyring formulation of the Arrhenius law. Direct evidence for energetically uphill EET and charge separation in PSII upon excitation of Chl f via anti-Stokes fluorescence in far-red light-adapted H. hongdechloris cells was obtained: Excitation by 720 nm laser light resulted in robust Chl a fluorescence at 680 nm that was distinctly temperature-dependent and, notably, increased upon DCMU (3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea) treatment in far-red light-adapted cells. Thus, rather than serving as an excitation energy trap, Chl f in far-red light-adapted H. hongdechloris cells is directly contributing to oxygenic photosynthesis at PSII.
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- Franz-Josef Schmitt
- Institute of Chemistry PC 14, Technical University of Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany.
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- Institute of Chemistry PC 14, Technical University of Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Chemistry PC 14, Technical University of Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Chemistry PC 14, Technical University of Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, Kagurazaka 1-3, Shinjuku‑Ku, Tokyo, 162‑8601, Japan
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskye Gory 1, bld. 24, Moscow, Russian Federation, 119991
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- Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation, 119992
- Bionanotechnology Laboratory, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Matbuat Avenue 2a, 1073, Baku, Azerbaijan
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Institutsky Lane 9, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region, Russian Federation, 141700
- Controlled Photobiosynthesis Laboratory, Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Botanicheskaya Street 35, Moscow, Russian Federation, 127276
- Institute of Basic Biological Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russian Federation, 142290
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- Institute of Chemistry PC 14, Technical University of Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany.
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Bar-Zvi S, Lahav A, Harris D, Niedzwiedzki DM, Blankenship RE, Adir N. Structural heterogeneity leads to functional homogeneity in A. marina phycocyanin. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2018; 1859:544-553. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2018.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2018] [Revised: 04/18/2018] [Accepted: 04/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Nganou C, Adir N, Mkandawire M. Cryospectroscopy Studies of Intact Light-Harvesting Antennas Reveal Empirical Electronic Energy Transitions in Two Cyanobacteria Species. J Phys Chem B 2018; 122:3068-3078. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b00714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Collins Nganou
- Verschuren Centre for Sustainability in Energy and the Environment, Cape Breton University, P.O. Box 5300, 1250 Grand Lake Road, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada B1P 6L2
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- Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000 Israel
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- Verschuren Centre for Sustainability in Energy and the Environment, Cape Breton University, P.O. Box 5300, 1250 Grand Lake Road, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada B1P 6L2
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Pieper J, Rätsep M, Golub M, Schmitt FJ, Artene P, Eckert HJ. Excitation energy transfer in phycobiliproteins of the cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina investigated by spectral hole burning. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2017; 133:225-234. [PMID: 28560566 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-017-0396-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2016] [Accepted: 05/06/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina developed two types of antenna complexes, which contain chlorophyll-d (Chl d) and phycocyanobilin (PCB) as light-harvesting pigment molecules, respectively. The latter membrane-extrinsic complexes are denoted as phycobiliproteins (PBPs). Spectral hole burning was employed to study excitation energy transfer and electron-phonon coupling in PBPs. The data reveal a rich spectral substructure with a total of four low-energy electronic states whose absorption bands peak at 633, 644, 654, and at about 673 nm. The electronic states at ~633 and 644 nm can be tentatively attributed to phycocyanin (PC) and allophycocyanin (APC), respectively. The remaining low-energy electronic states including the terminal emitter at 673 nm may be associated with different isoforms of PC, APC, or the linker protein. Furthermore, the hole burning data reveal a large number of excited state vibrational frequencies, which are characteristic for the chromophore PCB. In summary, the results are in good agreement with the low-energy level structure of PBPs and electron-phonon coupling parameters reported by Gryliuk et al. (BBA 1837:1490-1499, 2014) based on difference fluorescence line-narrowing experiments.
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- Jörg Pieper
- Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, W. Ostwaldi 1, 50411, Tartu, Estonia.
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- Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, W. Ostwaldi 1, 50411, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, W. Ostwaldi 1, 50411, Tartu, Estonia
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- Max-Volmer-Laboratories for Biophysical Chemistry, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, W. Ostwaldi 1, 50411, Tartu, Estonia
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- Max-Volmer-Laboratories for Biophysical Chemistry, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Badshah SL, Mabkhot Y, Al-Showiman SS. Photosynthesis at the far-red region of the spectrum in Acaryochloris marina. Biol Res 2017; 50:16. [PMID: 28526061 PMCID: PMC5438491 DOI: 10.1186/s40659-017-0120-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2016] [Accepted: 04/05/2017] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Acaryochloris marina is an oxygenic cyanobacterium that utilizes far-red light for photosynthesis. It has an expanded genome, which helps in its adaptability to the environment, where it can survive on low energy photons. Its major light absorbing pigment is chlorophyll d and it has α-carotene as a major carotenoid. Light harvesting antenna includes the external phycobilin binding proteins, which are hexameric rods made of phycocyanin and allophycocyanins, while the small integral membrane bound chlorophyll binding proteins are also present. There is specific chlorophyll a molecule in both the reaction center of Photosystem I (PSI) and PSII, but majority of the reaction center consists of chlorophyll d. The composition of the PSII reaction center is debatable especially the role and position of chlorophyll a in it. Here we discuss the photosystems of this bacterium and its related biology.
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- Syed Lal Badshah
- Department of Chemistry, Islamia College University Peshawar, Peshawar, 25120, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
- Department of Biochemistry, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, 23200, Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyad, Saudi Arabia.
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyad, Saudi Arabia.
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Solution structure and excitation energy transfer in phycobiliproteins of Acaryochloris marina investigated by small angle scattering. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2017; 1858:318-324. [PMID: 28131736 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2017.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2016] [Revised: 01/09/2017] [Accepted: 01/24/2017] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The structure of phycobiliproteins of the cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina was investigated in buffer solution at physiological temperatures, i.e. under the same conditions applied in spectroscopic experiments, using small angle neutron scattering. The scattering data of intact phycobiliproteins in buffer solution containing phosphate can be well described using a cylindrical shape with a length of about 225Å and a diameter of approximately 100Å. This finding is qualitatively consistent with earlier electron microscopy studies reporting a rod-like shape of the phycobiliproteins with a length of about 250 (M. Chen et al., FEBS Letters 583, 2009, 2535) or 300Å (J. Marquart et al., FEBS Letters 410, 1997, 428). In contrast, phycobiliproteins dissolved in buffer lacking phosphate revealed a splitting of the rods into cylindrical subunits with a height of 28Å only, but also a pronounced sample aggregation. Complementary small angle neutron and X-ray scattering experiments on phycocyanin suggest that the cylindrical subunits may represent either trimeric phycocyanin or trimeric allophycocyanin. Our findings are in agreement with the assumption that a phycobiliprotein rod with a total height of about 225Å can accommodate seven trimeric phycocyanin subunits and one trimeric allophycocyanin subunit, each of which having a height of about 28Å. The structural information obtained by small angle neutron and X-ray scattering can be used to interpret variations in the low-energy region of the 4.5K absorption spectra of phycobiliproteins dissolved in buffer solutions containing and lacking phosphate, respectively.
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Ma Q, Zhou N, Zhou M. Energy transfer between fusion biliproteins co-expressed with phycobiliprotein in Escherichia coli. Protein Expr Purif 2016; 126:84-88. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2016.05.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2016] [Revised: 05/28/2016] [Accepted: 05/30/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Chuang C, Lee CK, Moix JM, Knoester J, Cao J. Quantum Diffusion on Molecular Tubes: Universal Scaling of the 1D to 2D Transition. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2016; 116:196803. [PMID: 27232033 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.116.196803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2015] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The transport properties of disordered systems are known to depend critically on dimensionality. We study the diffusion coefficient of a quantum particle confined to a lattice on the surface of a tube, where it scales between the 1D and 2D limits. It is found that the scaling relation is universal and independent of the temperature, disorder, and noise parameters, and the essential order parameter is the ratio between the localization length in 2D and the circumference of the tube. Phenomenological and quantitative expressions for transport properties as functions of disorder and noise are obtained and applied to real systems: In the natural chlorosomes found in light-harvesting bacteria the exciton transfer dynamics is predicted to be in the 2D limit, whereas a family of synthetic molecular aggregates is found to be in the homogeneous limit and is independent of dimensionality.
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- Chern Chuang
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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Nganou C, David L, Adir N, Mkandawire M. Linker proteins enable ultrafast excitation energy transfer in the phycobilisome antenna system of Thermosynechococcus vulcanus. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2016; 15:31-44. [DOI: 10.1039/c5pp00285k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Comparison of kinetics of photoexcitation migration from PC620 to APC Core in extracted and intact pentacyclic phycobilisomes ofT. vulcanus. The extracted PBS does not have linker protein, while intact has them and they facilitate the migration.
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- C. Nganou
- Verschuren Centre for Sustainability in Energy and the Environment
- Cape Breton University
- Sydney
- Canada
- Department of Chemistry
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- Schulich Faculty of Chemistry
- Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
- Haifa
- Israel
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- Schulich Faculty of Chemistry
- Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
- Haifa
- Israel
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- Verschuren Centre for Sustainability in Energy and the Environment
- Cape Breton University
- Sydney
- Canada
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Maksimov EG, Klementiev KE, Shirshin EA, Tsoraev GV, Elanskaya IV, Paschenko VZ. Features of temporal behavior of fluorescence recovery in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2015; 125:167-178. [PMID: 25800518 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-015-0124-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2014] [Accepted: 03/18/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Under high photon flux density of solar radiation, the photosynthetic apparatus can be damaged. To prevent this photodestruction, cyanobacteria developed special mechanisms of non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) of excitation energy in phycobilisomes. In Synechocystis, NPQ is triggered by the orange carotenoid protein (OCP), which is sensitive to blue-green illumination allowing it to bind to the phycobilisome reducing the flow of energy to the photosystems. Consequent decoupling of OCP and recovery of phycobilisome fluorescence in vivo is controlled by the so called fluorescence recovery protein (FRP). In this work, the role of the phycobilisome core components, apcD and apcF, in non-photochemical quenching and subsequent fluorescence recovery in the phycobilisomes of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 has been investigated. Using a single photon counting technique, we have registered fluorescence decay spectra with picosecond time resolution during fluorescence recovery. In order to estimate the activation energy for the photocycle, spectroscopic studies in dependency on the temperature from 5 to 45 °C have been performed. It was found that fluorescence quenching and recovery were strongly temperature dependent for all strains exhibiting characteristic non-linear time courses. The rise of the fluorescence intensity during fluorescence recovery after NPQ can be completely described by the increase of the phycobilisome core fluorescence lifetime. It was shown that fluorescence recovery of apcD- and apcF-deficient mutants is characterized by a significantly lower activation energy barrier compared to wild type. This phenomenon indicates that apcD and apcF gene products may be required for proper interaction of FRP and OCP coupled to the phycobilisome core. In addition, we found that the rate of fluorescence recovery decreases with an increase of the non-photochemical quenching amplitude, probably due to depletion of substrate for the enzymatic reaction catalyzed by FRP.
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- E G Maksimov
- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992, Moscow, Russia,
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Nganou AC, David L, Adir N, Pouhe D, Deen MJ, Mkandawire M. Evidence of additional excitation energy transfer pathways in the phycobiliprotein antenna system of Acaryochloris marina. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2015; 14:429-38. [DOI: 10.1039/c4pp00352g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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To improve the energy conversion efficiency of solar organic cells, the clue may lie in the development of devices inspired by an efficient light harvesting mechanism of some aquatic photosynthetic microorganisms that are adapted to low light intensity.
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- A. C. Nganou
- Verschuren Centre for Sustainability in Energy and the Environment
- Cape Breton University
- Sydney
- Canada B1P 6L2
- Department of Chemistry
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- Schulich Faculty of Chemistry
- Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
- Haifa
- 32000 Israel
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- Schulich Faculty of Chemistry
- Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
- Haifa
- 32000 Israel
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- Reutlingen University
- 72762 Reutlingen
- Germany
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- McMaster University
- Ontario
- Canada L8S 4K1
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- Verschuren Centre for Sustainability in Energy and the Environment
- Cape Breton University
- Sydney
- Canada B1P 6L2
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Ren Y, Melhem O, Li Y, Chi B, Han X, Zhu H, Feng L, Wan J, Xu X. Clarifying and illustrating the electronic energy transfer pathways in trimeric and hexameric aggregation state of cyanobacteria allophycocyanin within the framework of Förster theory. J Comput Chem 2014; 36:137-45. [DOI: 10.1002/jcc.23770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2014] [Revised: 09/25/2014] [Accepted: 10/10/2014] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Yanliang Ren
- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology (CCNU), Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry; Central China Normal University; Wuhan 430079 People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology (CCNU), Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry; Central China Normal University; Wuhan 430079 People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology (CCNU), Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry; Central China Normal University; Wuhan 430079 People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology (CCNU), Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry; Central China Normal University; Wuhan 430079 People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology (CCNU), Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry; Central China Normal University; Wuhan 430079 People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology (CCNU), Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry; Central China Normal University; Wuhan 430079 People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology (CCNU), Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry; Central China Normal University; Wuhan 430079 People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology (CCNU), Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry; Central China Normal University; Wuhan 430079 People's Republic of China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials; Ministry of Education (MOE) Laboratory for Computational Physical Science, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University; Shanghai 200433 People's Republic of China
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Blanco-Pascual N, Gómez-Guillén M, Montero M. Integral Mastocarpus stellatus use for antioxidant edible film development. Food Hydrocoll 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodhyd.2014.02.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Excitation energy transfer and electron-vibrational coupling in phycobiliproteins of the cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina investigated by site-selective spectroscopy. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2014; 1837:1490-9. [PMID: 24560813 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2014.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2013] [Revised: 01/26/2014] [Accepted: 02/12/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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In adaption to its specific environmental conditions, the cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina developed two different types of light-harvesting complexes: chlorophyll-d-containing membrane-intrinsic complexes and phycocyanobilin (PCB) - containing phycobiliprotein (PBP) complexes. The latter complexes are believed to form a rod-shaped structure comprising three homo-hexamers of phycocyanin (PC), one hetero-hexamer of phycocyanin and allophycocyanin (APC) and probably a linker protein connecting the PBPs to the reaction centre. Excitation energy transfer and electron-vibrational coupling in PBPs have been investigated by selectively excited fluorescence spectra. The data reveal a rich spectral substructure with a total of five low-energy electronic states with fluorescence bands at 635nm, 645nm, 654nm, 659nm and a terminal emitter at about 673 nm. The electronic states at ~635 and 645 nm are tentatively attributed to PC and APC, respectively, while an apparent heterogeneity among PC subunits may also play a role. The other fluorescence bands may be associated with three different isoforms of the linker protein. Furthermore, a large number of vibrational features can be identified for each electronic state with intense phonon sidebands peaking at about 31 to 37cm⁻¹, which are among the highest phonon frequencies observed for photosynthetic antenna complexes. The corresponding Huang-Rhys factors S fall in the range between 0.98 (terminal emitter), 1.15 (APC), and 1.42 (PC). Two characteristic vibronic lines at about 1580 and 1634cm⁻¹ appear to reflect CNH⁺ and CC stretching modes of the PCB chromophore, respectively. The exact phonon and vibrational frequencies vary with electronic state implying that the respective PCB chromophores are bound to different protein environments. This article is part of a special issue entitled: photosynthesis research for sustainability: keys to produce clean energy.
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Maksimov EG, Schmitt FJ, Shirshin EA, Svirin MD, Elanskaya IV, Friedrich T, Fadeev VV, Paschenko VZ, Rubin AB. The time course of non-photochemical quenching in phycobilisomes of Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 as revealed by picosecond time-resolved fluorimetry. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2014; 1837:1540-7. [PMID: 24463052 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2014.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2013] [Revised: 12/25/2013] [Accepted: 01/15/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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As high-intensity solar radiation can lead to extensive damage of the photosynthetic apparatus, cyanobacteria have developed various protection mechanisms to reduce the effective excitation energy transfer (EET) from the antenna complexes to the reaction center. One of them is non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) of the phycobilisome (PB) fluorescence. In Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 this role is carried by the orange carotenoid protein (OCP), which reacts to high-intensity light by a series of conformational changes, enabling the binding of OCP to the PBs reducing the flow of energy into the photosystems. In this paper the mechanisms of energy migration in two mutant PB complexes of Synechocystis sp. were investigated and compared. The mutant CK is lacking phycocyanin in the PBs while the mutant ΔPSI/PSII does not contain both photosystems. Fluorescence decay spectra with picosecond time resolution were registered using a single photon counting technique. The studies were performed in a wide range of temperatures - from 4 to 300 K. The time course of NPQ and fluorescence recovery in darkness was studied at room temperature using both steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence measurements. The OCP induced NPQ has been shown to be due to EET from PB cores to the red form of OCP under photon flux densities up to 1000 μmolphotonsm⁻²s⁻¹. The gradual changes of the energy transfer rate from allophycocyanin to OCP were observed during the irradiation of the sample with blue light and consequent adaptation to darkness. This fact was interpreted as the revelation of intermolecular interaction between OCP and PB binding site. At low temperatures a significantly enhanced EET from allophycocyanin to terminal emitters has been shown, due to the decreased back transfer from terminal emitter to APC. The activation of OCP not only leads to fluorescence quenching, but also affects the rate constants of energy transfer as shown by model based analysis of the decay associated spectra. The results indicate that the ability of OCP to quench the fluorescence is strongly temperature dependent. This article is part of a special issue entitled: photosynthesis research for sustainability: keys to produce clean energy.
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- E G Maksimov
- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia.
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- Institute of Chemistry, Biophysical Chemistry, TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Quantum Electronics, Faculty of Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia
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- Institute of Chemistry, Biophysical Chemistry, TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Quantum Electronics, Faculty of Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia
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David L, Prado M, Arteni AA, Elmlund DA, Blankenship RE, Adir N. Structural studies show energy transfer within stabilized phycobilisomes independent of the mode of rod-core assembly. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2014; 1837:385-95. [PMID: 24407142 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2013.12.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2013] [Revised: 12/19/2013] [Accepted: 12/30/2013] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The major light harvesting complex in cyanobacteria and red algae is the phycobilisome (PBS), comprised of hundreds of seemingly similar chromophores, which are protein bound and assembled in a fashion that enables highly efficient uni-directional energy transfer to reaction centers. The PBS is comprised of a core containing 2-5 cylinders surrounded by 6-8 rods, and a number of models have been proposed describing the PBS structure. One of the most critical steps in the functionality of the PBS is energy transfer from the rod substructures to the core substructure. In this study we compare the structural and functional characteristics of high-phosphate stabilized PBS (the standard fashion of stabilization of isolated complexes) with cross-linked PBS in low ionic strength buffer from two cyanobacterial species, Thermosynechococcus vulcanus and Acaryochloris marina. We show that chemical cross-linking preserves efficient energy transfer from the phycocyanin containing rods to the allophycocyanin containing cores with fluorescent emission from the terminal emitters. However, this energy transfer is shown to exist in PBS complexes of different structures as characterized by determination of a 2.4Å structure by X-ray crystallography, single crystal confocal microscopy, mass spectrometry and transmission electron microscopy of negatively stained and cryogenically preserved complexes. We conclude that the PBS has intrinsic structural properties that enable efficient energy transfer from rod substructures to the core substructures without requiring a single unique structure. We discuss the significance of our observations on the functionality of the PBS in vivo.
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- Liron David
- Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA; Department of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
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- IMPMC-UMR7590, CNRS-Université Pierre & Marie Curie-IRD, Paris 75005, France
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- Stanford University Medical School, Dept. of Structural Biology, Stanford, CA 94305-5126, USA
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA; Department of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
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- Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.
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Mechanisms Modulating Energy Arriving at Reaction Centers in Cyanobacteria. ADVANCES IN PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND RESPIRATION 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9032-1_22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Eisenberg I, Yochelis S, Ben-Harosh R, David L, Faust A, Even-Dar N, Taha H, Haegel NM, Adir N, Keren N, Paltiel Y. Room temperature biological quantum random walk in phycocyanin nanowires. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:11245-50. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cp00345d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Self ordered phycocyanin nanowires as building blocks for future quantum nano-devices.
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- Ido Eisenberg
- Applied Physics Department and The Center for Nano-Science and Nano-Technology
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Jerusalem, 91904 Israel
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- Applied Physics Department and The Center for Nano-Science and Nano-Technology
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Jerusalem, 91904 Israel
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- Schulich Faculty of Chemistry
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
- Haifa, 32000 Israel
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- Schulich Faculty of Chemistry
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
- Haifa, 32000 Israel
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- The Institute of Chemistry and The Center for Nano-science and Nano-technology
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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- The Institute of Chemistry and The Center for Nano-science and Nano-technology
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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- Schulich Faculty of Chemistry
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
- Haifa, 32000 Israel
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences
- Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences
- Givat Ram
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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- Applied Physics Department and The Center for Nano-Science and Nano-Technology
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Jerusalem, 91904 Israel
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Watanabe M, Ikeuchi M. Phycobilisome: architecture of a light-harvesting supercomplex. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2013; 116:265-76. [PMID: 24081814 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-013-9905-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 155] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2013] [Accepted: 07/26/2013] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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The phycobilisome (PBS) is an extra-membrane supramolecular complex composed of many chromophore (bilin)-binding proteins (phycobiliproteins) and linker proteins, which generally are colorless. PBS collects light energy of a wide range of wavelengths, funnels it to the central core, and then transfers it to photosystems. Although phycobiliproteins are evolutionarily related to each other, the binding of different bilin pigments ensures the ability to collect energy over a wide range of wavelengths. Spatial arrangement and functional tuning of the different phycobiliproteins, which are mediated primarily by linker proteins, yield PBS that is efficient and versatile light-harvesting systems. In this review, we discuss the functional and spatial tuning of phycobiliproteins with a focus on linker proteins.
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- Mai Watanabe
- Department of Life Sciences (Biology), Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo, 153-8902, Japan
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Nganou C. Low absorption state of phycocyanin from Acaryochloris marina antenna system: On the interplay between ionic strength and excitonic coupling. J Chem Phys 2013; 139:045101. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4813803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Behrendt L, Staal M, Cristescu SM, Harren FJ, Schliep M, Larkum AW, Kühl M. Reactive oxygen production induced by near-infrared radiation in three strains of the Chl d-containing cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina. F1000Res 2013; 2:44. [PMID: 24555034 PMCID: PMC3894803 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.2-44.v2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/10/2013] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Cyanobacteria in the genus
Acaryochloris have largely exchanged Chl
a with Chl
d, enabling them to harvest near-infrared-radiation (NIR) for oxygenic photosynthesis, a biochemical pathway prone to generate reactive oxygen species (ROS). In this study, ROS production under different light conditions was quantified in three
Acaryochloris strains (MBIC11017, HICR111A and the novel strain CRS) using a real-time ethylene detector in conjunction with addition of 2-keto-4-thiomethylbutyric acid, a substrate that is converted to ethylene when reacting with certain types of ROS. In all strains, NIR was found to generate less ROS than visible light (VIS). More ROS was generated if strains MBIC11017 and HICR111A were adapted to NIR and then exposed to VIS, while strain CRS demonstrated the opposite behavior. This is the very first study of ROS generation and suggests that
Acaryochloris can avoid a considerable amount of light-induced stress by using NIR instead of VIS for its photosynthesis, adding further evolutionary arguments to their widespread appearance.
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- Lars Behrendt
- Marine Biology Section, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Helsingør, DK-3000, Denmark ; Section for Microbiology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Sølvgade, DK-1307, Denmark
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- Marine Biology Section, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Helsingør, DK-3000, Denmark
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- Life Science Trace Gas Facility, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg, 6525 AJ, Netherlands
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- Life Science Trace Gas Facility, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg, 6525 AJ, Netherlands
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- Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Cluster, School of the Environment, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia
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- Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Cluster, School of the Environment, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia
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- Marine Biology Section, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Helsingør, DK-3000, Denmark ; Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Cluster, School of the Environment, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia ; Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang, Singapore
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Marx A, Adir N. Allophycocyanin and phycocyanin crystal structures reveal facets of phycobilisome assembly. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2012. [PMID: 23201474 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2012.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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X-ray crystal structures of the isolated phycobiliprotein components of the phycobilisome have provided high resolution details to the description of this light harvesting complex at different levels of complexity and detail. The linker-independent assembly of trimers into hexamers in crystal lattices of previously determined structures has been observed in almost all of the phycocyanin (PC) and allophycocyanin (APC) structures available in the Protein Data Bank. In this paper we describe the X-ray crystal structures of PC and APC from Synechococcus elongatus sp. PCC 7942, PC from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and PC from Thermosynechococcus vulcanus crystallized in the presence of urea. All five structures are highly similar to other PC and APC structures on the levels of subunits, monomers and trimers. The Synechococcus APC forms a unique loose hexamer that may show the structural requirements for core assembly and rod attachment. While the Synechococcus PC assembles into the canonical hexamer, it does not further assemble into rods. Unlike most PC structures, the Synechocystis PC fails to form hexamers. Addition of low concentrations of urea to T. vulcanus PC inhibits this proteins propensity to form hexamers, resulting in a crystal lattice composed of trimers. The molecular source of these differences in assembly and their relevance to the phycobilisome structure is discussed.
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- Ailie Marx
- Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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Schmitt FJ, Maksimov EG, Hätti P, Weißenborn J, Jeyasangar V, Razjivin AP, Paschenko VZ, Friedrich T, Renger G. Coupling of different isolated photosynthetic light harvesting complexes and CdSe/ZnS nanocrystals via Förster resonance energy transfer. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2012; 1817:1461-70. [PMID: 22503663 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2012.03.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2012] [Revised: 03/28/2012] [Accepted: 03/28/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The present work describes results obtained on hybrid systems formed in aqueous buffer solution by self-assembly of different CdSe quantum dots (QDs) surrounded by a ZnS shell and functionalized by covering the surface with anionic and cationic groups and various isolated pigment-protein complexes from the light-harvesting antennae of photosynthetic organisms (light-harvesting complexes 1 and 2 (LH1 and LH2, respectively) from purple bacteria, phycobiliproteins (PBPs) from cyanobacteria and the rod-shaped PBP from the cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina). Excitation energy transfer (EET) from QDs to PBP rods was found to take place with varying and highly temperature-dependent efficiencies of up to 90%. Experiments performed at room temperature on hybrid systems with different QDs show that no straightforward correlation exists between the efficiency of EET and the parameter J/(R(12)(6)) given by the theory of Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET), where J is the overlap integral of the normalized QD emission and PBP absorption and R(12) the distance between the transition dipole moments of donor and acceptor. The results show that the hybrid systems cannot be described as randomly orientated aggregates consisting of QDs and photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes. Specific structural parameters are inferred to play an essential role. The mode of binding and coupling seems to change with the size of QDs and with temperature. Efficient EET and fluorescence enhancement of the acceptor was observed at particular stoichiometric ratios between QDs and trimeric phycoerythrin (PE). At higher concentrations of PE, a quenching of its fluorescence is observed in the presence of QDs. This effect is explained by the existence of additional quenching channels in aggregates formed within hybrid systems. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Photosynthesis Research for Sustainability: from Natural to Artificial.
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- F-J Schmitt
- Institute of Chemistry, Biophysical Chemistry, Berlin Institute of Technology, Berlin, Germany.
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Biofilm growth and near-infrared radiation-driven photosynthesis of the chlorophyll d-containing cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina. Appl Environ Microbiol 2012; 78:3896-904. [PMID: 22467501 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00397-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina is the only known phototroph harboring chlorophyll (Chl) d. It is easy to cultivate it in a planktonic growth mode, and A. marina cultures have been subject to detailed biochemical and biophysical characterization. In natural situations, A. marina is mainly found associated with surfaces, but this growth mode has not been studied yet. Here, we show that the A. marina type strain MBIC11017 inoculated into alginate beads forms dense biofilm-like cell clusters, as in natural A. marina biofilms, characterized by strong O(2) concentration gradients that change with irradiance. Biofilm growth under both visible radiation (VIS, 400 to 700 nm) and near-infrared radiation (NIR, ∼700 to 730 nm) yielded maximal cell-specific growth rates of 0.38 per day and 0.64 per day, respectively. The population doubling times were 1.09 and 1.82 days for NIR and visible light, respectively. The photosynthesis versus irradiance curves showed saturation at a photon irradiance of E(k) (saturating irradiance) >250 μmol photons m(-2) s(-1) for blue light but no clear saturation at 365 μmol photons m(-2) s(-1) for NIR. The maximal gross photosynthesis rates in the aggregates were ∼1,272 μmol O(2) mg Chl d(-1) h(-1) (NIR) and ∼1,128 μmol O(2) mg Chl d(-1) h(-1) (VIS). The photosynthetic efficiency (α) values were higher in NIR-irradiated cells [(268 ± 0.29) × 10(-6) m(2) mg Chl d(-1) (mean ± standard deviation)] than under blue light [(231 ± 0.22) × 10(-6) m(2) mg Chl d(-1)]. A. marina is well adapted to a biofilm growth mode under both visible and NIR irradiance and under O(2) conditions ranging from anoxia to hyperoxia, explaining its presence in natural niches with similar environmental conditions.
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Börner T. Regulation of plant primary metabolism. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2011; 168:1309-10. [PMID: 21601945 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2011.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/28/2011] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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