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Spangler LC, Yu M, Jeffrey PD, Scholes GD. Controllable Phycobilin Modification: An Alternative Photoacclimation Response in Cryptophyte Algae. ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE 2022; 8:340-350. [PMID: 35350600 PMCID: PMC8949638 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.1c01209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2021] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Cryptophyte algae are well-known for their ability to survive under low light conditions using their auxiliary light harvesting antennas, phycobiliproteins. Mainly acting to absorb light where chlorophyll cannot (500-650 nm), phycobiliproteins also play an instrumental role in helping cryptophyte algae respond to changes in light intensity through the process of photoacclimation. Until recently, photoacclimation in cryptophyte algae was only observed as a change in the cellular concentration of phycobiliproteins; however, an additional photoacclimation response was recently discovered that causes shifts in the phycobiliprotein absorbance peaks following growth under red, blue, or green light. Here, we reproduce this newly identified photoacclimation response in two species of cryptophyte algae and elucidate the origin of the response on the protein level. We compare isolated native and photoacclimated phycobiliproteins for these two species using spectroscopy and mass spectrometry, and we report the X-ray structures of each phycobiliprotein and the corresponding photoacclimated complex. We find that neither the protein sequences nor the protein structures are modified by photoacclimation. We conclude that cryptophyte algae change one chromophore in the phycobiliprotein β subunits in response to changes in the spectral quality of light. Ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy shows that the energy transfer is weakly affected by photoacclimation.
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- Leah C. Spangler
- Department
of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
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- Department
of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
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Moya R, Kondo T, Norris AC, Schlau-Cohen GS. Spectrally-tunable femtosecond single-molecule pump-probe spectroscopy. OPTICS EXPRESS 2021; 29:28246-28256. [PMID: 34614960 PMCID: PMC8687097 DOI: 10.1364/oe.432995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2021] [Revised: 08/03/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Single-molecule spectroscopy has been extensively used to investigate heterogeneity in static and dynamic behaviors on millisecond and second timescales. More recently, single-molecule pump-probe spectroscopy emerged as a method to access heterogeneity on the femtosecond and picosecond timescales. Here, we develop a single-molecule pump-probe apparatus that is easily tunable across the visible region and demonstrate its utility on the widely-used fluorescent dye, Atto647N. A spectrally-independent, bimodal distribution of energetic relaxation time constants is found, where one peak corresponds to electronic dephasing (∼ 100 fs) and the other to intravibrational relaxation (∼ 300 fs). The bimodal nature indicates that relaxation within each individual molecule is dominated by only one of these processes. Both peaks of the distribution are narrow, suggesting little heterogeneity is present for either process. As illustrated here, spectrally-tunable single-molecule pump-probe spectroscopy will enable investigation of the heterogeneity in a wide range of biological and material systems.
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- Raymundo Moya
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Department of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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Villani G. A Time-Dependent Quantum Approach to Allostery and a Comparison With Light-Harvesting in Photosynthetic Phenomenon. Front Mol Biosci 2020; 7:156. [PMID: 33005625 PMCID: PMC7483663 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2020.00156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2020] [Accepted: 06/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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The allosteric effect is one of the most important processes in regulating the function of proteins, and the elucidation of this phenomenon plays a significant role in understanding emergent behaviors in biological regulation. In this process, a perturbation, generated by a ligand in a part of the macromolecule (the allosteric site), moves along this system and reaches a specific (active) site, dozens of Ångströms away, with a great efficiency. The dynamics of this perturbation in the macromolecule can model precisely the allosteric process. In this article, we will be studying the general characteristics of allostery, using a time-dependent quantum approach to obtain rules that apply to this kind of process. Considering the perturbation as a wave that moves within the molecular system, we will characterize the allosteric process with three of the properties of this wave in the active site: (1) ta, the characteristic time for reaching that site, (2) Aa, the amplitude of the wave in this site, and (3) Ba, its corresponding spectral broadening. These three parameters, together with the process mechanism and the perturbation efficiency in the process, can describe the phenomenon. One of the main purposes of this paper is to link the parameters ta, Aa, and Ba and the perturbation efficiency to the characteristics of the system. There is another fundamental process for life that has some characteristics similar to allostery: the light-harvesting (LH) process in photosynthesis. Here, as in allostery, two distant macromolecular sites are involved—two sites dozens of Ångströms away. In both processes, it is particularly important that the perturbation is distributed efficiently without dissipating in the infinite degrees of freedom within the macromolecule. The importance of considering quantum effects in the LH process is well documented in literature, and the quantum coherences are experimentally proven by time-dependent spectroscopic techniques. Given the existing similarities between these two processes in macromolecules, in this work, we suggest using Quantum Mechanics (QM) to study allostery.
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- Giovanni Villani
- Istituto di Chimica dei Composti OrganoMetallici (UOS Pisa) - CNR, Area della Ricerca di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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Stadnichuk IN, Novikova TM, Miniuk GS, Boichenko VA, Bolychevtseva YV, Gusev ES, Lukashev EP. Phycoerythrin Association with Photosystem II in the Cryptophyte Alga Rhodomonas salina. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2020; 85:679-688. [PMID: 32586231 DOI: 10.1134/s000629792006005x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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# Deceased. Cryptophyte algae belong to a special group of oxygenic photosynthetic organisms containing pigment combination unique for plastids - phycobiliproteins and chlorophyll a/c-containing antenna. Despite the progress in investigation of morphological and ecological features, as well as genome-based systematics of cryptophytes, their photosynthetic apparatus remains poorly understood. The ratio of the photosystems (PS)s I and II is unknown and information on participation of the two antennal complexes in functions of the two photosystems is inconsistent. In the present work we demonstrated for the first time that the cryptophyte alga Rhodomonas salina had the PSI to PSII ratio in thylakoid membranes equal to 1 : 4, whereas this ratio in cyanobacteria and higher plants was known to be 3 : 1 and 1 : 1, respectively. Furthermore, it was established that contrary to the case of cyanobacteria the phycobiliprotein antenna represented by phycoerythrin-545 (PE-545) in R. salina was associated only with the PSII, which indicated specific spatial organization of these protein pigments within the thylakoids that did not facilitate interaction with the PSI.
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- I N Stadnichuk
- Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 127726, Russia.
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- Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Research Center of Biotechnology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119071, Russia
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- Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Research Center of Biotechnology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119071, Russia
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- Institute of Fundamental Problems of Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, 142290, Russia
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- Kovalevski Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Russian Academy of Sciences, Sevastopol, 299011, Russia
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- Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 127726, Russia
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- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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Bizimana LA, Epstein J, Turner DB. Inertial water response dominates protein solvation dynamics. Chem Phys Lett 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2019.04.069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Leng X, Jin F, Wei M, Ma H, Feng J, Ma Y. Electronic energy transfer studied by many-body Green’s function theory. J Chem Phys 2019; 150:164107. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5066290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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- Xia Leng
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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Lee MK, Bravaya KB, Coker DF. First-Principles Models for Biological Light-Harvesting: Phycobiliprotein Complexes from Cryptophyte Algae. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:7803-7814. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b01780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- Mi Kyung Lee
- Department of Chemistry, Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
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Aghtar M, Kleinekathöfer U, Curutchet C, Mennucci B. Impact of Electronic Fluctuations and Their Description on the Exciton Dynamics in the Light-Harvesting Complex PE545. J Phys Chem B 2017; 121:1330-1339. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b10772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Mortaza Aghtar
- Department
of Physics and Earth Sciences, Jacobs University Bremen, Campus Ring 1, 28759 Bremen, Germany
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- Department
of Physics and Earth Sciences, Jacobs University Bremen, Campus Ring 1, 28759 Bremen, Germany
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- Departament
de Farmàcia i Tecnologia Farmacèutica i Fisicoquímica
and Institut de Biomedicina (IBUB), Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Joan XXIII s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, University of Pisa, Via G. Moruzzi
13, I-56124 Pisa, Italy
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Mirkovic T, Ostroumov EE, Anna JM, van Grondelle R, Govindjee, Scholes GD. Light Absorption and Energy Transfer in the Antenna Complexes of Photosynthetic Organisms. Chem Rev 2016; 117:249-293. [PMID: 27428615 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 599] [Impact Index Per Article: 74.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The process of photosynthesis is initiated by the capture of sunlight by a network of light-absorbing molecules (chromophores), which are also responsible for the subsequent funneling of the excitation energy to the reaction centers. Through evolution, genetic drift, and speciation, photosynthetic organisms have discovered many solutions for light harvesting. In this review, we describe the underlying photophysical principles by which this energy is absorbed, as well as the mechanisms of electronic excitation energy transfer (EET). First, optical properties of the individual pigment chromophores present in light-harvesting antenna complexes are introduced, and then we examine the collective behavior of pigment-pigment and pigment-protein interactions. The description of energy transfer, in particular multichromophoric antenna structures, is shown to vary depending on the spatial and energetic landscape, which dictates the relative coupling strength between constituent pigment molecules. In the latter half of the article, we focus on the light-harvesting complexes of purple bacteria as a model to illustrate the present understanding of the synergetic effects leading to EET optimization of light-harvesting antenna systems while exploring the structure and function of the integral chromophores. We end this review with a brief overview of the energy-transfer dynamics and pathways in the light-harvesting antennas of various photosynthetic organisms.
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- Tihana Mirkovic
- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto , 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University , Washington Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania , 231 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam , De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biochemistry, Center of Biophysics & Quantitative Biology, and Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , 265 Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto , 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada.,Department of Chemistry, Princeton University , Washington Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
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Aghtar M, Strümpfer J, Olbrich C, Schulten K, Kleinekathöfer U. Different Types of Vibrations Interacting with Electronic Excitations in Phycoerythrin 545 and Fenna-Matthews-Olson Antenna Systems. J Phys Chem Lett 2014; 5:3131-3137. [PMID: 26276324 DOI: 10.1021/jz501351p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The interest in the phycoerythrin 545 (PE545) photosynthetic antenna system of marine algae and the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) complex of green sulfur bacteria has drastically increased since long-lived quantum coherences were reported for these complexes. For the PE545 complex, this phenomenon is clearly visible even at ambient temperatures, while for the FMO system it is more prominent at lower temperatures. The key to elucidate the role of the environment in these long-lived quantum effects is the spectral density. Here, we employ molecular dynamics simulations combined with quantum chemistry calculations to study the coupling between the biological environment and the vertical excitation energies of the bilin pigment molecules in PE545 and compare them to prior calculations on the FMO complex. It is found that the overall strength of the resulting spectral densities for the PE545 system is similar to the experiment-based counterpart but also to those in the FMO complex. Molecular analysis, however, reveals that the origin for the spectral densities in the low frequency range, which is most important for excitonic transitions, is entirely different. In the case of FMO, this part of the spectral density is due to environmental fluctuations, while, in case of PE545, it is essentially only due to internal modes of the bilin molecules. This finding sheds new light on possible explanations of the long-lived quantum coherences and that the reasons might actually be different in dissimilar systems.
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- Mortaza Aghtar
- †School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Bremen, Campus Ring 1, 28759 Bremen, Germany
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- †School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Bremen, Campus Ring 1, 28759 Bremen, Germany
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- †School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Bremen, Campus Ring 1, 28759 Bremen, Germany
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McClure SD, Turner DB, Arpin PC, Mirkovic T, Scholes GD. Coherent Oscillations in the PC577 Cryptophyte Antenna Occur in the Excited Electronic State. J Phys Chem B 2014; 118:1296-308. [DOI: 10.1021/jp411924c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- Scott D. McClure
- Department of Chemistry and
Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control, 80 Saint George Street, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and
Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control, 80 Saint George Street, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and
Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control, 80 Saint George Street, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and
Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control, 80 Saint George Street, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and
Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control, 80 Saint George Street, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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Viani L, Corbella M, Curutchet C, O'Reilly EJ, Olaya-Castro A, Mennucci B. Molecular basis of the exciton–phonon interactions in the PE545 light-harvesting complex. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:16302-11. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cp01477d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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A fully polarizable QM/MM approach is used in combination with classical MD simulations to predict the pigment-dependent spectral densities of the PE545 antenna complex and account for their effects on the exciton dynamics.
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- Lucas Viani
- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale
- Università di Pisa
- 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Departament de Fisicoquímica
- Facultat de Farmàcia
- Universitat de Barcelona
- 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Fisicoquímica
- Facultat de Farmàcia
- Universitat de Barcelona
- 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy
- University College London
- London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale
- Università di Pisa
- 56126 Pisa, Italy
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König C, Neugebauer J. Quantum chemical description of absorption properties and excited-state processes in photosynthetic systems. Chemphyschem 2011; 13:386-425. [PMID: 22287108 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201100408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2011] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The theoretical description of the initial steps in photosynthesis has gained increasing importance over the past few years. This is caused by more and more structural data becoming available for light-harvesting complexes and reaction centers which form the basis for atomistic calculations and by the progress made in the development of first-principles methods for excited electronic states of large molecules. In this Review, we discuss the advantages and pitfalls of theoretical methods applicable to photosynthetic pigments. Besides methodological aspects of excited-state electronic-structure methods, studies on chlorophyll-type and carotenoid-like molecules are discussed. We also address the concepts of exciton coupling and excitation-energy transfer (EET) and compare the different theoretical methods for the calculation of EET coupling constants. Applications to photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes and reaction centers based on such models are also analyzed.
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- Carolin König
- Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Technical University Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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Womick JM, Liu H, Moran AM. Exciton Delocalization and Energy Transport Mechanisms in R-Phycoerythrin. J Phys Chem A 2011; 115:2471-82. [DOI: 10.1021/jp111720a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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- Jordan M. Womick
- Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States
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Novoderezhkin VI, Doust AB, Curutchet C, Scholes GD, van Grondelle R. Excitation dynamics in Phycoerythrin 545: modeling of steady-state spectra and transient absorption with modified Redfield theory. Biophys J 2010; 99:344-52. [PMID: 20643051 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.04.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2009] [Revised: 04/11/2010] [Accepted: 04/13/2010] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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We model the spectra and excitation dynamics in the phycobiliprotein antenna complex PE545 isolated from the unicellular photosynthetic cryptophyte algae Rhodomonas CS24. The excitonic couplings between the eight bilins are calculated using the CIS/6-31G method. The site energies are extracted from a simultaneous fit of the absorption, circular dichroism, fluorescence, and excitation anisotropy spectra together with the transient absorption kinetics using the modified Redfield approach. Quantitative fit of the data enables us to assign the eight exciton components of the spectra and build up the energy transfer picture including pathways and timescales of energy relaxation, thus allowing a visualization of excitation dynamics within the complex.
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- Vladimir I Novoderezhkin
- A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
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Novoderezhkin VI, van Grondelle R. Physical origins and models of energy transfer in photosynthetic light-harvesting. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2010; 12:7352-65. [PMID: 20532406 DOI: 10.1039/c003025b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 152] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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We perform a quantitative comparison of different energy transfer theories, i.e. modified Redfield, standard and generalized Förster theories, as well as combined Redfield-Förster approach. Physical limitations of these approaches are illustrated and critical values of the key parameters indicating their validity are found. We model at a quantitative level the spectra and dynamics in two photosynthetic antenna complexes: in phycoerythrin 545 from cryptophyte algae and in trimeric LHCII complex from higher plants. These two examples show how the structural organization determines a directed energy transfer and how equilibration within antenna subunits and migration between subunits are superimposed.
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- Vladimir I Novoderezhkin
- A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 119992, Moscow, Russia
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Abramavicius D, Palmieri B, Voronine DV, Šanda F, Mukamel S. Coherent multidimensional optical spectroscopy of excitons in molecular aggregates; quasiparticle versus supermolecule perspectives. Chem Rev 2009; 109:2350-408. [PMID: 19432416 PMCID: PMC2975548 DOI: 10.1021/cr800268n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 327] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Phycocyanin sensitizes both photosystem I and photosystem II in cryptophyte Chroomonas CCMP270 cells. Biophys J 2007; 94:2423-33. [PMID: 18024506 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.113993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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This article presents an investigation of the energy migration dynamics in intact cells of the unicellular photosynthetic cryptophyte Chroomonas CCMP270 by steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence measurements. By kinetic modeling of the fluorescence data on chlorophyll and phycocyanin 645 excitation (at 400 and 582 nm respectively), it has been possible to show the excited state energy distribution in the photosynthetic antenna of this alga. Excitation energy from phycocyanin 645 is distributed nearly equally between photosystem I and photosystem II with very high efficiency on a 100-ps timescale. The excitation energy trapping times for both photosystem I ( approximately 30 ps) and photosystem I (200 and approximately 540 ps) correspond well to those obtained from experiments on isolated photosystems. The results are compared with previous results for another cryptophyte species, Rhodomonas CS24, and suggest a similar membrane organization for the cryptophytes with the phycobiliproteins tightly packed in the thylakoid lumen around the periphery of the photosystems.
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van der Weij-De Wit CD, Doust AB, van Stokkum IHM, Dekker JP, Wilk KE, Curmi PMG, Scholes GD, van Grondelle R. How Energy Funnels from the Phycoerythrin Antenna Complex to Photosystem I and Photosystem II in Cryptophyte Rhodomonas CS24 Cells. J Phys Chem B 2006; 110:25066-73. [PMID: 17149931 DOI: 10.1021/jp061546w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We report an investigation of energy migration dynamics in intact cells of the photosynthetic cryptophyte Rhodomonas CS24 using analyses of steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy measurements. By fitting a specific model to the fluorescence data, we obtain three time scales (17, 58, and 113 ps) by which the energy is transferred from phycoerythrin 545 (PE545) to the membrane-associated chlorophylls (Chls). We propose that these time scales reflect both an angular distribution of PE545 around the photosystems and the relative orientations of the donor dihydrobiliverdin (DBV) bilin and the acceptor Chl. Contrary to investigations of the isolated antenna complex, it is demonstrated that energy transfer from PE545 does not occur from a single-emitting bilin, but rather both the peripheral dihydrobiliverdin (DBV) chromophores in PE545 appear to be viable donors of excitation energy to the membrane-bound proteins. The model shows an almost equal distribution of excitation energy from PE545 to both photosystem I (PSI) and photosystem II (PSII), whose trap times correspond well to those obtained from experiments on isolated photosystems.
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- Chantal D van der Weij-De Wit
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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