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Akhtar P, Sipka G, Han W, Li X, Han G, Shen JR, Garab G, Tan HS, Lambrev PH. Ultrafast excitation quenching by the oxidized photosystem II reaction center. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:145101. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0086046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Photosystem II (PSII) is the pigment–protein complex driving the photoinduced oxidation of water and reduction of plastoquinone in all oxygenic photosynthetic organisms. Excitations in the antenna chlorophylls are photochemically trapped in the reaction center (RC) producing the chlorophyll–pheophytin radical ion pair P+ Pheo−. When electron donation from water is inhibited, the oxidized RC chlorophyll P+ acts as an excitation quencher, but knowledge on the kinetics of quenching is limited. Here, we used femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy to compare the excitation dynamics of PSII with neutral and oxidized RC (P+). We find that equilibration in the core antenna has a major lifetime of about 300 fs, irrespective of the RC redox state. Two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy revealed additional slower energy equilibration occurring on timescales of 3–5 ps, concurrent with excitation trapping. The kinetics of PSII with open RC can be described well with previously proposed models according to which the radical pair P+ Pheo− is populated with a main lifetime of about 40 ps, which is primarily determined by energy transfer between the core antenna and the RC chlorophylls. Yet, in PSII with oxidized RC (P+), fast excitation quenching was observed with decay lifetimes as short as 3 ps and an average decay lifetime of about 90 ps, which is shorter than the excited-state lifetime of PSII with open RC. The underlying mechanism of this extremely fast quenching prompts further investigation.
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- Parveen Akhtar
- School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Link 21, 637371, Singapore
- Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Temesvári krt. 62, Szeged 6726, Hungary
- ELI-ALPS, ELI-HU Non-profit Ltd., Wolfgang Sandner u. 3, Szeged 6728, Hungary
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- Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Temesvári krt. 62, Szeged 6726, Hungary
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science, and Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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- Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Temesvári krt. 62, Szeged 6726, Hungary
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- School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Link 21, 637371, Singapore
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- Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Temesvári krt. 62, Szeged 6726, Hungary
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Lim J, Bösen CM, Somoza AD, Koch CP, Plenio MB, Huelga SF. Multicolor Quantum Control for Suppressing Ground State Coherences in Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2019; 123:233201. [PMID: 31868446 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.233201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The measured multidimensional spectral response of different light harvesting complexes exhibits oscillatory features which suggest an underlying coherent energy transfer. However, making this inference rigorous is challenging due to the difficulty of isolating excited state coherences in highly congested spectra. In this work, we provide a coherent control scheme that suppresses ground state coherences, thus making rephasing spectra dominated by excited state coherences. We provide a benchmark for the scheme using a model dimeric system and numerically exact methods to analyze the spectral response. We argue that combining temporal and spectral control methods can facilitate a second generation of experiments that are tailored to extract desired information and thus significantly advance our understanding of complex open many-body structure and dynamics.
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- J Lim
- Institut für Theoretische Physik and IQST, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, Universität Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik and IQST, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, Universität Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik and IQST, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, Universität Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- Theoretische Physik, Universität Kassel, Heinrich-Plett-Strasse 40, 34132 Kassel, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik and IQST, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, Universität Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik and IQST, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, Universität Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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Ma F, Swainsbury DJK, Jones MR, van Grondelle R. Photoprotection through ultrafast charge recombination in photochemical reaction centres under oxidizing conditions. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2018; 372:rstb.2016.0378. [PMID: 28808097 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Engineering natural photosynthesis to address predicted shortfalls in food and energy supply requires a detailed understanding of its molecular basis and the intrinsic photoprotective mechanisms that operate under fluctuating environmental conditions. Long-lived triplet or singlet excited electronic states have the potential to cause photodamage, particularly in the presence of oxygen, and so a variety of mechanisms exist to prevent formation of such states or safely dissipate their energy. Here, we report a dramatic difference in spectral evolution in fully reduced and partially oxidized Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction centres (RCs) following excitation of the monomeric bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) cofactors at 805 nm. Three types of preparation were studied, including RCs purified as protein/lipid nanodiscs using the copolymer styrene maleic acid. In fully reduced RCs such excitation produces membrane-spanning charge separation. In preparations of partially oxidized RCs the spectroscopic signature of this charge separation is replaced by that of an energy dissipation process, including in the majority sub-population of reduced RCs. This process, which appears to take place on both cofactor branches, involves formation of a BChl+/bacteriopheophytin- radical pair that dissipates energy via recombination to a vibrationally hot ground state. The possible physiological role of this dissipative process under mildly oxidizing conditions is considered.This article is part of the themed issue 'Enhancing photosynthesis in crop plants: targets for improvement'.
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- Fei Ma
- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, Medical Sciences Building, University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TD, UK
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- School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, Medical Sciences Building, University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TD, UK
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- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Prajapati R, Mukherjee TK. Effect of surfactant assemblies on the resonance energy transfer from 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole to silver nanoclusters. J Photochem Photobiol A Chem 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2017.11.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Rancova O, Jankowiak R, Abramavicius D. Role of Bath Fluctuations in the Double-Excitation Manifold in Shaping the 2DES of Bacterial Reaction Centers at Low Temperature. J Phys Chem B 2018; 122:1348-1366. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b08905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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- Olga Rancova
- Institute
of Chemical Physics, Vilnius University, Sauletekio al 9-III, 10222 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Department
of Chemistry and Department of Physics, Kansas State University, 213 CBC Building, Manhattan, Kansas 66506-0401, United States
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- Institute
of Chemical Physics, Vilnius University, Sauletekio al 9-III, 10222 Vilnius, Lithuania
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Xie Y, Jiang S, Zheng J, Lan Z. Construction of Vibronic Diabatic Hamiltonian for Excited-State Electron and Energy Transfer Processes. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:9567-9578. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b07737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Yu Xie
- CAS
Key Laboratory of Biobased Materials, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy
and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266101, China
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- CAS
Key Laboratory of Biobased Materials, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy
and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Industrial Research Institute of Nonwovens & Technical Textiles, College of Textiles & Clothing, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, China
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- CAS
Key Laboratory of Biobased Materials, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy
and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Sener M, Strumpfer J, Singharoy A, Hunter CN, Schulten K. Overall energy conversion efficiency of a photosynthetic vesicle. eLife 2016; 5. [PMID: 27564854 PMCID: PMC5001839 DOI: 10.7554/elife.09541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2015] [Accepted: 07/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The chromatophore of purple bacteria is an intracellular spherical vesicle that exists in numerous copies in the cell and that efficiently converts sunlight into ATP synthesis, operating typically under low light conditions. Building on an atomic-level structural model of a low-light-adapted chromatophore vesicle from Rhodobacter sphaeroides, we investigate the cooperation between more than a hundred protein complexes in the vesicle. The steady-state ATP production rate as a function of incident light intensity is determined after identifying quinol turnover at the cytochrome bc1 complex (cytbc1) as rate limiting and assuming that the quinone/quinol pool of about 900 molecules acts in a quasi-stationary state. For an illumination condition equivalent to 1% of full sunlight, the vesicle exhibits an ATP production rate of 82 ATP molecules/s. The energy conversion efficiency of ATP synthesis at illuminations corresponding to 1%–5% of full sunlight is calculated to be 0.12–0.04, respectively. The vesicle stoichiometry, evolutionarily adapted to the low light intensities in the habitat of purple bacteria, is suboptimal for steady-state ATP turnover for the benefit of protection against over-illumination. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.09541.001 Photosynthesis, or the conversion of light energy into chemical energy, is a process that powers almost all life on Earth. Plants and certain bacteria share similar processes to perform photosynthesis, though the purple bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides uses a photosynthetic system that is much less complex than that in plants. Light harvesting inside the bacterium takes place in up to hundreds of compartments called chromatophores. Each chromatophore in turn contains hundreds of cooperating proteins that together absorb the energy of sunlight and convert and store it in molecules of ATP, the universal energy currency of all cells. The chromatophore of primitive purple bacteria provides a model for more complex photosynthetic systems in plants. Though researchers had characterized its individual components over the years, less was known about the overall architecture of the chromatophore and how its many components work together to harvest light energy efficiently and robustly. This knowledge would provide insight into the evolutionary pressures that shaped the chromatophore and its ability to work efficiently at different light intensities. Sener et al. now present a highly detailed structural model of the chromatophore of purple bacteria based on the findings of earlier studies. The model features the position of every atom of the constituent proteins and is used to examine how energy is transferred and converted. Sener et al. describe the sequence of energy conversion steps and calculate the overall energy conversion efficiency, namely how much of the light energy arriving at the microorganism is stored as ATP. These calculations show that the chromatophore is optimized to produce chemical energy at low light levels typical of purple bacterial habitats, and dissipate excess energy to avoid being damaged under brighter light. The chromatophore’s architecture also displays robustness against perturbations of its components. In the future, the approach used by Sener et al. to describe light harvesting in this bacterial compartment can be applied to more complex systems, such as those in plants. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.09541.002
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- Melih Sener
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States.,Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States.,Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States.,Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States.,Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States
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Jankowiak R, Rancova O, Chen J, Kell A, Saer RG, Beatty JT, Abramavicius D. Mutation-Induced Changes in the Protein Environment and Site Energies in the (M)L214G Mutant of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides Bacterial Reaction Center. J Phys Chem B 2016; 120:7859-71. [PMID: 27458891 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b06151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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This work focuses on the low-temperature (5 K) photochemical (transient) hole-burned (HB) spectra within the P870 absorption band, and their theoretical analysis, for the (M)L214G mutant of the photosynthetic Rhodobacter sphaeroides bacterial reaction center (bRC). To provide insight into system-bath interactions of the bacteriochlorophyll a (BChl a) special pair, i.e., P870, in the mutated bRC, the optical line shape function for the P870 band is calculated numerically. On the basis of the modeling studies, we demonstrate that (M)L214G mutation leads to a heterogeneous population of bRCs with modified (increased) total electron-phonon coupling strength of the special pair BChl a and larger inhomogeneous broadening. Specifically, we show that after mutation in the (M)L214G bRC a large fraction (∼50%) of the bacteriopheophytin (HA) chromophores shifts red and the 800 nm absorption band broadens, while the remaining fraction of HA cofactors retains nearly the same site energy as HA in the wild-type bRC. Modeling using these two subpopulations allowed for fits of the absorption and nonresonant (transient) HB spectra of the mutant bRC in the charge neutral, oxidized, and charge-separated states using the Frenkel exciton Hamiltonian, providing new insight into the mutant's complex electronic structure. Although the average (M)L214G mutant quantum efficiency of P(+)QA(-) state formation seems to be altered in comparison with the wild-type bRC, the average electron transfer time (measured via resonant transient HB spectra within the P870 band) was not affected. Thus, mutation in the vicinity of the electron acceptor (HA) does not tune the charge separation dynamics. Finally, quenching of the (M)L214G mutant excited states by P(+) is addressed by persistent HB spectra burned within the B band in chemically oxidized samples.
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- Department of Theoretical Physics, Vilnius University , 10222 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia , Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia , Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Department of Theoretical Physics, Vilnius University , 10222 Vilnius, Lithuania
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Rancova O, Jankowiak R, Kell A, Jassas M, Abramavicius D. Band Structure of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides Photosynthetic Reaction Center from Low-Temperature Absorption and Hole-Burned Spectra. J Phys Chem B 2016; 120:5601-16. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b02595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Olga Rancova
- Department
of Theoretical Physics, Vilnius University, Sauletekio al 9-III, 10222 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Department
of Theoretical Physics, Vilnius University, Sauletekio al 9-III, 10222 Vilnius, Lithuania
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Azai C, Sano Y, Kato Y, Noguchi T, Oh-oka H. Mutation-induced perturbation of the special pair P840 in the homodimeric reaction center in green sulfur bacteria. Sci Rep 2016; 6:19878. [PMID: 26804137 PMCID: PMC4726426 DOI: 10.1038/srep19878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2015] [Accepted: 12/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Homodimeric photosynthetic reaction centers (RCs) in green sulfur bacteria and heliobacteria are functional homologs of Photosystem (PS) I in oxygenic phototrophs. They show unique features in their electron transfer reactions; however, detailed structural information has not been available so far. We mutated PscA-Leu688 and PscA-Val689 to cysteine residues in the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum; these residues were predicted to interact with the special pair P840, based on sequence comparison with PS I. Spectroelectrochemical measurements showed that the L688C and V689C mutations altered a near-infrared difference spectrum upon P840 oxidation, as well as the redox potential of P840. Light-induced Fourier transform infrared difference measurements showed that the L688C mutation induced a differential signal of the S-H stretching vibration in the P840+/P840 spectrum, as reported in P800+/P800 difference spectrum in a heliobacterial RC. Spectral changes in the 131-keto C=O region, caused by both mutations, revealed corresponding changes in the electronic structure of P840 and in the hydrogen-bonding interaction at the 131-keto C=O group. These results suggest that there is a common spatial configuration around the special pair sites among type 1 RCs. The data also provided evidence that P840 has a symmetric electronic structure, as expected from a homodimeric RC.
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- Chihiro Azai
- Division of Material Science (Physics), Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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- Division of Material Science (Physics), Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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- Division of Material Science (Physics), Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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- Division of Material Science (Physics), Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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Butkus V, Dong H, Fleming GR, Abramavicius D, Valkunas L. Disorder-Induced Quantum Beats in Two-Dimensional Spectra of Excitonically Coupled Molecules. J Phys Chem Lett 2016; 7:277-282. [PMID: 26720834 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Quantum superposition of molecular electronic states is very fragile because of thermal energy fluctuations and the static conformational disorder induced by the intimate surrounding of constituent molecules of the system. However, the nature of the long-lived quantum beats, observed in time-resolved spectra of molecular aggregates at physiological conditions, is still being debated. We present our study of the conditions when long-lived electronic quantum coherences originating from recently proposed inhomogeneous broadening mechanism are enhanced and reflected in the two-dimensional electronic spectra of the excitonically coupled molecular dimer. We show that depending on the amount of inhomogeneous broadening, the excitonically coupled molecular system can establish long-lived electronic coherences, caused by a disordered subensemble, for which the dephasing due to static energy disorder becomes significantly reduced. On the basis of these considerations, we present explanations for why the electronic or vibrational coherences were or were not observed in a range of recent experiments.
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- Vytautas Butkus
- Department of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics, Vilnius University , Sauletekio 9-III, 10222 Vilnius, Lithuania
- Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Gostauto 9, 01108 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics, Vilnius University , Sauletekio 9-III, 10222 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Department of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics, Vilnius University , Sauletekio 9-III, 10222 Vilnius, Lithuania
- Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Gostauto 9, 01108 Vilnius, Lithuania
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Timpmann K, Chenchiliyan M, Jalviste E, Timney JA, Hunter CN, Freiberg A. Efficiency of light harvesting in a photosynthetic bacterium adapted to different levels of light. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2014; 1837:1835-46. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2014.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2014] [Revised: 06/12/2014] [Accepted: 06/23/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Nielsen A, Kuzmanich G, Garcia-Garibay MA. Quantum chain reaction of tethered diarylcyclopropenones in the solid state and their distance-dependence in solution reveal a Dexter S₂-S₂ energy-transfer mechanism. J Phys Chem A 2014; 118:1858-63. [PMID: 24533559 DOI: 10.1021/jp501216z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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When promoted to their second singlet excited state (S2) in benzene, alkyl-linked dimers of diarylcyclopropenone undergo a photodecarbonylation reaction with quantum yields varying from Φ = 0.7 to 1.14. Quantum yields greater than 1.0 in solution rely on an adiabatic reaction along the S2 energy surface where the immediately formed excited-state product transfers energy to the unreacted molecule in the dimer to generate a second excited state. By determination of the quantum yields of decarbonylation for the linked diarylcyclopropenones with linkers of various lengths it was shown that S2 → S2 energy transfer is limited to distances shorter than ca. 6 Å. Notably, the quantum chain reaction occurs with similar efficiency for all the linked diarylcyclopropenones dimers in the solid state.
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- Amy Nielsen
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California , Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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Ryu IS, Dong H, Fleming GR. Role of Electronic-Vibrational Mixing in Enhancing Vibrational Coherences in the Ground Electronic States of Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Center. J Phys Chem B 2014; 118:1381-8. [DOI: 10.1021/jp4100476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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- Ian Seungwan Ryu
- Department of Chemistry, University of California—Berkeley, and Physical Bioscience
Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California—Berkeley, and Physical Bioscience
Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California—Berkeley, and Physical Bioscience
Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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We have investigated the folding dynamics of Thermus thermophilus cytochrome c(552) by time-resolved fluorescence energy transfer between the heme and each of seven site-specific fluorescent probes. We have found both an equilibrium unfolding intermediate and a distinct refolding intermediate from kinetics studies. Depending on the protein region monitored, we observed either two-state or three-state denaturation transitions. The unfolding intermediate associated with three-state folding exhibited native contacts in β-sheet and C-terminal helix regions. We probed the formation of a refolding intermediate by time-resolved fluorescence energy transfer between residue 110 and the heme using a continuous flow mixer. The intermediate ensemble, a heterogeneous mixture of compact and extended polypeptides, forms in a millisecond, substantially slower than the ∼100-μs formation of a burst-phase intermediate in cytochrome c. The surprising finding is that, unlike for cytochrome c, there is an observable folding intermediate, but no microsecond burst phase in the folding kinetics of the structurally related thermostable protein.
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Strümpfer J, Schulten K. Excited state dynamics in photosynthetic reaction center and light harvesting complex 1. J Chem Phys 2012; 137:065101. [PMID: 22897312 DOI: 10.1063/1.4738953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Key to efficient harvesting of sunlight in photosynthesis is the first energy conversion process in which electronic excitation establishes a trans-membrane charge gradient. This conversion is accomplished by the photosynthetic reaction center (RC) that is, in case of the purple photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides studied here, surrounded by light harvesting complex 1 (LH1). The RC employs six pigment molecules to initiate the conversion: four bacteriochlorophylls and two bacteriopheophytins. The excited states of these pigments interact very strongly and are simultaneously influenced by the surrounding thermal protein environment. Likewise, LH1 employs 32 bacteriochlorophylls influenced in their excited state dynamics by strong interaction between the pigments and by interaction with the protein environment. Modeling the excited state dynamics in the RC as well as in LH1 requires theoretical methods, which account for both pigment-pigment interaction and pigment-environment interaction. In the present study we describe the excitation dynamics within a RC and excitation transfer between light harvesting complex 1 (LH1) and RC, employing the hierarchical equation of motion method. For this purpose a set of model parameters that reproduce RC as well as LH1 spectra and observed oscillatory excitation dynamics in the RC is suggested. We find that the environment has a significant effect on LH1-RC excitation transfer and that excitation transfers incoherently between LH1 and RC.
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- Johan Strümpfer
- Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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Schlau-Cohen GS, De Re E, Cogdell RJ, Fleming GR. Determination of Excited-State Energies and Dynamics in the B Band of the Bacterial Reaction Center with 2D Electronic Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem Lett 2012; 3:2487-92. [PMID: 26292138 DOI: 10.1021/jz300841u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Photosynthetic organisms convert photoenergy to chemical energy with near-unity quantum efficiency. This occurs through charge transfer in the reaction center, which consists of two branches of pigments. In bacteria, both branches are energy-transfer pathways, but only one is also an electron transfer pathway. One barrier to a full understanding of the asymmetry is that the two branches contain excited states close in energy that produce overlapping spectroscopic peaks. We apply polarization-dependent, 2D electronic spectroscopy to the B band of the oxidized bacterial reaction center. The spectra reveal two previously unresolved peaks, corresponding to excited states localized on each of the two branches. Furthermore, a previously unknown interaction between these two states is observed on a time scale of ∼100 fs. This may indicate an alternative pathway to electron transfer for the oxidized reaction center and thus may be a mechanism to prevent energy from becoming trapped in local minima.
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- Gabriela S Schlau-Cohen
- §Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California, United States
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- §Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California, United States
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- §Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California, United States
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Pan J, Lin S, Woodbury NW. Bacteriochlorophyll Excited-State Quenching Pathways in Bacterial Reaction Centers with the Primary Donor Oxidized. J Phys Chem B 2012; 116:2014-22. [DOI: 10.1021/jp212441b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Jie Pan
- The Biodesign
Institute at Arizona
State University, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-5201, United States
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- The Biodesign
Institute at Arizona
State University, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-5201, United States
- Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry, Arizona State University,
Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, United States
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- The Biodesign
Institute at Arizona
State University, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-5201, United States
- Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry, Arizona State University,
Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, United States
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Koyama T, Miyata Y, Asaka K, Shinohara H, Saito Y, Nakamura A. Ultrafast energy transfer of one-dimensional excitons between carbon nanotubes: a femtosecond time-resolved luminescence study. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2012; 14:1070-84. [DOI: 10.1039/c1cp22781e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We review recent theoretical and experimental advances in the elucidation of the dynamics of light harvesting in photosynthesis, focusing on recent theoretical developments in structure-based modeling of electronic excitations in photosynthetic complexes and critically examining theoretical models for excitation energy transfer. We then briefly describe two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy and its application to the study of photosynthetic complexes, in particular the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex from green sulfur bacteria. This review emphasizes recent experimental observations of long-lasting quantum coherence in photosynthetic systems and the implications of quantum coherence in natural photosynthesis.
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- Yuan-Chung Cheng
- Department of Chemistry and QB3 Institute, University of California, Berkeley and Physical Bioscience Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Multipulse spectroscopy on the wild-type and YM210W Bacterial Reaction Centre uncovers a new intermediate state in the special pair excited state. Chem Phys Lett 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2009.04.081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Cytochrome cb(562) is a variant of an Escherichia coli four-helix bundle b-type heme protein in which the porphyrin prosthetic group is covalently ligated to the polypeptide near the terminus of helix 4. Studies from other laboratories have shown that the apoprotein folds rapidly without the formation of intermediates, whereas the holoprotein loses heme before native structure can be attained. Time-resolved fluorescence energy transfer (TRFET) measurements of cytochrome cb(562) refolding triggered using an ultrafast continuous-flow mixer (150 micros dead time) reveal that heme attachment to the polypeptide does not interfere with rapid formation of the native structure. Analyses of the TRFET data produce distributions of Trp-59-heme distances in the protein before, during, and after refolding. Characterization of the moments and time evolution of these distributions provides compelling evidence for a refolding mechanism that does not involve significant populations of intermediates. These observations suggest that the cytochrome b(562) folding energy landscape is minimally frustrated and able to tolerate the introduction of substantial perturbations (i.e., the heme prosthetic group) without the formation of deep misfolded traps.
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Fink RF, Pfister J, Zhao HM, Engels B. Assessment of quantum chemical methods and basis sets for excitation energy transfer. Chem Phys 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2008.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Minhaeng Cho
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Multidimensional Spectroscopy, Korea University, Seoul 136-701, Korea.
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Cheng YC, Lee H, Fleming GR. Efficient Simulation of Three-Pulse Photon-Echo Signals with Application to the Determination of Electronic Coupling in a Bacterial Photosynthetic Reaction Center. J Phys Chem A 2007; 111:9499-508. [PMID: 17696328 DOI: 10.1021/jp0735177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A time-nonlocal quantum master equation coupled with a perturbative scheme to evaluate the third-order polarization in the phase-matching direction k(s) = -k(1) + k(2) + k(3) is used to efficiently simulate three-pulse photon-echo signals. The present method is capable of describing photon-echo peak shifts including pulse overlap and bath memory effects. In addition, the method treats the non-Markovian evolution of the density matrix and the third-order polarization in a consistent manner, thus is expected to be useful in systems with rapid and complex dynamics. We apply the theoretical method to describe one- and two-color three-pulse photon-echo peak shift experiments performed on a bacterial photosynthetic reaction center and demonstrate that, by properly incorporating the pulse overlap effects, the method can be used to describe simultaneously all peak shift experiments and determine the electronic coupling between the localized Q(y) excitations on the bacteriopheophytin (BPhy) and accessory bateriochlorophyll (BChl) in the reaction center. A value of J = 250 cm(-1) is found for the coupling between BPhy and BChl.
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- Yuan-Chung Cheng
- Department of Chemistry and QB3 Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Yin S, Dahlbom MG, Canfield PJ, Hush NS, Kobayashi R, Reimers JR. Assignment of the Qy absorption spectrum of photosystem-I from Thermosynechococcus elongatus based on CAM-B3LYP calculations at the PW91-optimized protein structure. J Phys Chem B 2007; 111:9923-30. [PMID: 17672486 DOI: 10.1021/jp070030p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The Qy absorption spectrum of Photosystem-I from Thermosynecochoccus elongatus (formerly Synecochoccus elongatus) is calculated using the CAM-B3LYP density functional and INDO schemes based on a quantum-mechanically refined structure for the entire photosystem obtained using the PW91 density functional. These methods present a priori predictions of the absorption and linear dichroism spectra and include protein electrostatic effects, short range inductive effects, long-range and short-range exciton couplings, and superexchange effects involving aromatic residues and carotenes. CAM-B3LYP is used as it is the only known density functional that correctly describes the Q bands of chlorophylls, all other methods contaminating them with erroneous charge-transfer excitations. A critical feature is found to be the use of fully optimized heavy-atom coordinates, with those obtained from just X-ray crystallography providing a poor description of the electronic properties of the chromophores. The result is a realistic first-principles prediction of the observed absorption band that identifies the nature of the red-shifted chlorophylls as well as the energies of the reaction-center chlorophylls and the exciton couplings acting between them. The "special pair" appears more like a dimer of dimers than a self-contained functional unit, with the exciton couplings between its members and the accessory chlorophylls exceeding the internal coupling.
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- Shiwei Yin
- School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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Lee H, Cheng YC, Fleming GR. Coherence Dynamics in Photosynthesis: Protein Protection of Excitonic Coherence. Science 2007; 316:1462-5. [PMID: 17556580 DOI: 10.1126/science.1142188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 593] [Impact Index Per Article: 34.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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The role of quantum coherence in promoting the efficiency of the initial stages of photosynthesis is an open and intriguing question. We performed a two-color photon echo experiment on a bacterial reaction center that enabled direct visualization of the coherence dynamics in the reaction center. The data revealed long-lasting coherence between two electronic states that are formed by mixing of the bacteriopheophytin and accessory bacteriochlorophyll excited states. This coherence can only be explained by strong correlation between the protein-induced fluctuations in the transition energy of neighboring chromophores. Our results suggest that correlated protein environments preserve electronic coherence in photosynthetic complexes and allow the excitation to move coherently in space, enabling highly efficient energy harvesting and trapping in photosynthesis.
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- Hohjai Lee
- Department of Chemistry and QB3 Institute, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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Kimura T, Lee JC, Gray HB, Winkler JR. Site-specific collapse dynamics guide the formation of the cytochrome c' four-helix bundle. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 104:117-22. [PMID: 17179212 PMCID: PMC1765420 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0609413103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The evolution of tryptophan-to-heme (W/heme) distance distributions extracted from analysis of fluorescence energy transfer kinetics during the refolding of Rhodopseudomonas palustris cytochrome c' reveals dramatic differences between two variants [W32 (Q1A/F32W/W72F) and W72 (Q1A)]. Both W32/heme and W72/heme distance distributions measured at the earliest time point attainable with a continuous-flow mixer (150 mus) confirm that the polypeptide ensemble is not uniformly collapsed and that native structure is not formed. Time-resolved fluorescence spectra indicate that W32 is sequestered from the aqueous solution during the first 700 mus of folding, whereas W72 remains exposed to solvent. The first moment of the W32/heme distance distribution evolves to its native value faster than that of W72, suggesting that the approach of W32 to the heme precedes that of W72.
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- Tetsunari Kimura
- Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125-7400
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- Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125-7400
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- Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125-7400
- To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail:
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- Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125-7400
- To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail:
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Mondal SK, Ghosh S, Sahu K, Mandal U, Bhattacharyya K. Ultrafast fluorescence resonance energy transfer in a reverse micelle: Excitation wavelength dependence. J Chem Phys 2006; 125:224710. [PMID: 17176157 DOI: 10.1063/1.2403131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) from coumarin 480 (C480) to fluorescein 548 (F548) in a sodium dioctyl sulfosuccinate (AOT) reverse micelle is studied by picosecond and femtosecond emission spectroscopy. In bulk water, at the low concentration of the donor (C480) and the acceptor (F548), no FRET is observed. However, when the donor (C480) and the acceptor (F548) are confined in a AOT reverse micelle very fast FRET is observed. The time constants of FRET were obtained from the rise time of the emission of the acceptor (F548). In a AOT microemulsion, FRET is found to occur in multiple time scales--3, 200, and 2700 ps. The 3 ps component is assigned to FRET in the water pool of the reverse micelle with a donor-acceptor distance, 16 A. The 200 ps component corresponds to a donor-acceptor distance of 30 A and is ascribed to the negatively charged acceptor inside the water pool and the neutral donor inside the alkyl chains of AOT. The very long 2700 ps component may arise due to FRET from a donor outside the micelle to an acceptor inside the water pool and also from diffusion of the donor from bulk heptane to the reverse micelle. With increase in the excitation wavelength from 375 to 405 nm the relative contribution of the FRET due to C480 in the AOT reverse micelle (the 3 and 200 ps components) increases.
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- Sudip Kumar Mondal
- Physical Chemistry Department, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700 032, India
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Dreuw A. Quantum Chemical Methods for the Investigation of Photoinitiated Processes in Biological Systems: Theory and Applications. Chemphyschem 2006; 7:2259-74. [PMID: 17009357 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.200600064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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With the advent of modern computers and advances in the development of efficient quantum chemical computer codes, the meaningful computation of large molecular systems at a quantum mechanical level became feasible. Recent experimental effort to understand photoinitiated processes in biological systems, for instance photosynthesis or vision, at a molecular level also triggered theoretical investigations in this field. In this Minireview, standard quantum chemical methods are presented that are applicable and recently used for the calculation of excited states of photoinitiated processes in biological molecular systems. These methods comprise configuration interaction singles, the complete active space self-consistent field method, and time-dependent density functional theory and its variants. Semiempirical approaches are also covered. Their basic theoretical concepts and mathematical equations are briefly outlined, and their properties and limitations are discussed. Recent successful applications of the methods to photoinitiated processes in biological systems are described and theoretical tools for the analysis of excited states are presented.
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- Andreas Dreuw
- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Max von Laue-Str. 7, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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Sahu K, Ghosh S, Mondal SK, Ghosh BC, Sen P, Roy D, Bhattacharyya K. Ultrafast fluorescence resonance energy transfer in a micelle. J Chem Phys 2006; 125:44714. [PMID: 16942181 DOI: 10.1063/1.2218847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Ultrafast fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) from coumarin 153 (C153) to rhodamine 6G (R6G) is studied in a neutral PEO(20)-PPO(70)-PEO(20) triblock copolymer (P123) micelle and an anionic micelle (sodium dodecyl sulfate, SDS) using a femtosecond up-conversion setup. Time constants of FRET were determined from the rise time of the acceptor emission. It is shown that a micelle increases efficiency of FRET by holding the donor and the acceptor at a close distance (intramicellar FRET) and also by tuning the donor and acceptor energies. It is demonstrated that in the P123 micelle, intramicellar FRET (i.e., donor and acceptor in same micelle) occurs in 1.2 and 24 ps. In SDS micelle, there are two ultrafast components (0.7 and 13 ps) corresponding to intramicellar FRET. The role of diffusion is found to be minor in the ultrafast components of FRET. We also detected a much longer component (1000 ps) for intramicellar FRET in the larger P123 micelle.
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- Kalyanasis Sahu
- Physical Chemistry Department, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700032, India
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Alstrum-Acevedo JH, Brennaman MK, Meyer TJ. Chemical approaches to artificial photosynthesis. 2. Inorg Chem 2006; 44:6802-27. [PMID: 16180838 DOI: 10.1021/ic050904r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 715] [Impact Index Per Article: 39.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The goal of artificial photosynthesis is to use the energy of the sun to make high-energy chemicals for energy production. One approach, described here, is to use light absorption and excited-state electron transfer to create oxidative and reductive equivalents for driving relevant fuel-forming half-reactions such as the oxidation of water to O2 and its reduction to H2. In this "integrated modular assembly" approach, separate components for light absorption, energy transfer, and long-range electron transfer by use of free-energy gradients are integrated with oxidative and reductive catalysts into single molecular assemblies or on separate electrodes in photelectrochemical cells. Derivatized porphyrins and metalloporphyrins and metal polypyridyl complexes have been most commonly used in these assemblies, with the latter the focus of the current account. The underlying physical principles--light absorption, energy transfer, radiative and nonradiative excited-state decay, electron transfer, proton-coupled electron transfer, and catalysis--are outlined with an eye toward their roles in molecular assemblies for energy conversion. Synthetic approaches based on sequential covalent bond formation, derivatization of preformed polymers, and stepwise polypeptide synthesis have been used to prepare molecular assemblies. A higher level hierarchial "assembly of assemblies" strategy is required for a working device, and progress has been made for metal polypyridyl complex assemblies based on sol-gels, electropolymerized thin films, and chemical adsorption to thin films of metal oxide nanoparticles.
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- James H Alstrum-Acevedo
- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB #3290, 27599-3290, USA
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Tornow S, Tong NH, Bulla R. Dissipative exciton transfer in donor-bridge-acceptor systems: numerical renormalization group calculation of equilibrium properties. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2006; 18:5985-6000. [PMID: 21690813 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/18/26/017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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We present a detailed model study of exciton transfer processes in donor-bridge-acceptor (DBA) systems. Using a model which includes the intermolecular Coulomb interaction and the coupling to a dissipative environment we calculate the phase diagram, the absorption spectrum as well as dynamic equilibrium properties with the numerical renormalization group. This method is non-perturbative and therefore allows one to cover the full parameter space, especially the case when the intermolecular Coulomb interaction is of the same order as the coupling to the environment and perturbation theory cannot be applied. For DBA systems with up to six sites we found a transition to the localized phase (self-trapping) depending on the coupling to the dissipative environment. We discuss various criteria which favour delocalized exciton transfer.
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- Sabine Tornow
- Theoretische Physik III, Elektronische Korrelationen und Magnetismus, Universität Augsburg, 86135 Augsburg, Germany
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Curutchet C, Mennucci B. Toward a molecular scale interpretation of excitation energy transfer in solvated bichromophoric systems. J Am Chem Soc 2006; 127:16733-44. [PMID: 16305264 DOI: 10.1021/ja055489g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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This paper presents a quantum-mechanical study of the intramolecular excitation energy transfer (EET) coupling in naphthalene-bridge-naphthalene systems in gas phase and in solution. ZINDO and TDDFT response schemes are compared using both an exact and an approximate solution. The approximate solution based on a perturbative approach uses the single chromophore properties to reconstruct the real system coupling thus neglecting possible through-bond effects which conversely are accounted for in the exact solution. The comparison of the results of the two approaches with the experiments allows a detailed analysis of the relative importance of through-bond and through-space effects as well as a more complete understanding of the modifications in the EET coupling with the size of the system, the chromophore-chromophore distance, and solvation.
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- Carles Curutchet
- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, via Risorgimento 35, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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Steffen R, Eckert HJ, Kelly AA, Dörmann P, Renger G. Investigations on the Reaction Pattern of Photosystem II in Leaves from Arabidopsis thaliana by Time-Resolved Fluorometric Analysis. Biochemistry 2005; 44:3123-33. [PMID: 15736922 DOI: 10.1021/bi0484668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The transients of normalized fluorescence yield induced by an actinic laser flash in dark adapted leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana plants were measured with new equipment, that was developed as part of this work and permits the covarage of a wide time domain of 8 decades from 100 ns to 10 s. The raw data obtained were processed and analyzed within the framework of the "3-quencher" model with Q(A) as photochemical and P680(+)(*) and (3)Car as nonphotochemical quenchers. Comparative measurements with hydroxylamine treated PS II membrane fragments from spinach revealed that the widely used "dogma"of virtually identical efficiency of photochemical (Q(A)) and nonphotochemical (P680(+)(*)) quenching has to be revised: the constant of the latter exceeds that of the former by a factor of about 2. As a consequence, the probability of recombination between P680(+)(*) and Q(A)(-) and its kinetics have to be explicitly taken into account for the interpretation of flash induced fluorescence yield transients. The analysis of the experimental data within this extended "3-quencher" model reveals that a fully consistent description is achieved for the data gathered from measurements with intact leaves from wild type plants excited with actinic laser flashes of different energies (number of photons per flash and unit area). On the basis of these results it is shown that, in dark adapted leaves excited with a single laser flash, P680(+)(*) is predominantly (about 80% of the total reaction) reduced by Y(Z) via nanosecond kinetics and Q(A)(-) reoxidation is dominated by a kinetics of about 150 mus that are ascribed to PS II complexes with the Q(B) site occupied by PQ. The excess of excited chlorophyll singlet states decays to a significant extent via the carotenoid "triplet valve"with transient population of (3)Car. The present data provide the basis for analyses of A. thaliana mutants with modified lipid content and composition. The results of these investigations are described in an accompanying report (Steffen, R., Kelly, A. A., Huyer, J., Dormann, P., and Renger, G. (2005) Investigations on the reaction pattern of photosystem II in leaves from Arabidopsis thaliana wild type plants and mutants with genetically modified lipid content, Biochemistry 44, 3134-3142).
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- Ronald Steffen
- Max Volmer Laboratory, Technical University Berlin, Strasse des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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