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Taylor N, Kassal I. Why are photosynthetic reaction centres dimeric? Chem Sci 2019; 10:9576-9585. [PMID: 32055331 PMCID: PMC6993572 DOI: 10.1039/c9sc03712h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2019] [Accepted: 08/23/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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All photosynthetic organisms convert solar energy into chemical energy through charge separation in dimeric reaction centres. It is unknown why early reaction centres dimerised and completely displaced their monomeric ancestors. Here, we discuss several proposed explanations for reaction-centre dimerism and conclude-with only weak assumptions about the primordial dimerisation event-that the most probable explanation for the dimerism is that it arose because it enhanced light-harvesting efficiency by deepening the excitonic trap, i.e., by enhancing the rate of exciton transfer from an antenna complex and decreasing the rate of back transfer. This effect would have outweighed the negative effect dimerisation would have had on charge transfer within the reaction centre. Our argument implies that dimerisation likely occurred after the evolution of the first antennas, and it explains why the lower-energy state of the special pair is bright.
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- Natasha Taylor
- School of Chemistry and University of Sydney Nano Institute , University of Queensland , QLD 4072 , Australia
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- School of Chemistry , University of Sydney Nano Institute , University of Sydney , NSW 2006 , Australia .
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Santabarbara S, Tibiletti T, Remelli W, Caffarri S. Kinetics and heterogeneity of energy transfer from light harvesting complex II to photosystem I in the supercomplex isolated from Arabidopsis. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 19:9210-9222. [PMID: 28319223 DOI: 10.1039/c7cp00554g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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State transitions are a phenomenon that maintains the excitation balance between photosystem II (PSII) and photosystem I (PSI-LHCI) by controlling their relative absorption cross-sections. Under light conditions exciting PSII preferentially, a trimeric LHCII antenna moves from PSII to PSI-LHCI to form the PSI-LHCI-LHCII supercomplex. In this work, the excited state dynamics in the PSI-LHCI and PSI-LHCI-LHCII supercomplexes isolated from Arabidopsis have been investigated by picosecond time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. The excited state decays were analysed using two approaches based on either (i) a sum of discrete exponentials or (ii) a continuous distribution of lifetimes. The results indicate that the energy transfer from LHCII to the bulk of the PSI antenna occurs with an average macroscopic transfer rate in the 35-65 ns-1 interval. Yet, the most satisfactory description of the data is obtained when considering a heterogeneous population containing two PSI-LHCI-LHCII supercomplexes characterised by a transfer time of ∼15 and ∼60 ns-1, likely due to the differences in the strength and orientation of LHCII harboured to PSI. Both these values are of the same order of magnitude of those estimated for the average energy transfer rates from the low energy spectral forms of LHCI to the bulk of the PSI antenna (15-40 ns-1), but they are slower than the transfer from the bulk antenna of PSI to the reaction centre (>150 ns-1), implying a relatively small kinetics bottleneck for the energy transfer from LHCII. Nevertheless, the kinetic limitation imposed by excited state diffusion has a negligible impact on the photochemical quantum efficiency of the supercomplex, which remains about 98% in the case of PSI-LHCI.
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- Stefano Santabarbara
- Photosynthesis Research Unit, Centro di Studio per la Biologia Cellulare e Molecolare delle Piante, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milan, Italy.
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- Aix Marseille Univ, CEA, CNRS UMR7265 BVME, Laboratoire de Génétique et Biophysique des Plantes, Marseille 13009, France
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- Photosynthesis Research Unit, Centro di Studio per la Biologia Cellulare e Molecolare delle Piante, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milan, Italy.
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- Aix Marseille Univ, CEA, CNRS UMR7265 BVME, Laboratoire de Génétique et Biophysique des Plantes, Marseille 13009, France
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Molotokaite E, Remelli W, Casazza AP, Zucchelli G, Polli D, Cerullo G, Santabarbara S. Trapping Dynamics in Photosystem I-Light Harvesting Complex I of Higher Plants Is Governed by the Competition Between Excited State Diffusion from Low Energy States and Photochemical Charge Separation. J Phys Chem B 2017; 121:9816-9830. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b07064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Egle Molotokaite
- Centro
Studi sulla Biologia Cellulare e Molecolare delle Piante, CNR, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Centro
Studi sulla Biologia Cellulare e Molecolare delle Piante, CNR, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Istituto
di Biologia e Biotecnologia Agraria, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Bassini 15a, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Centro
Studi sulla Biologia Cellulare e Molecolare delle Piante, CNR, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie del CNR, Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, P.zza Leonardo
da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
- Center
for Nano Science and Technology at Polimi, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Giovanni Pascoli, 70/3, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie del CNR, Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, P.zza Leonardo
da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Centro
Studi sulla Biologia Cellulare e Molecolare delle Piante, CNR, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milan, Italy
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Beddard GS, Yorke BA. Pump-Probe Spectroscopy Using the Hadamard Transform. APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY 2016; 70:1292-1299. [PMID: 27340218 DOI: 10.1177/0003702816653927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2015] [Accepted: 10/20/2015] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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A new method of performing pump-probe experiments is proposed and experimentally demonstrated by a proof of concept on the millisecond scale. The idea behind this method is to measure the total probe intensity arising from several time points as a group, instead of measuring each time separately. These measurements are multiplexes that are then transformed into the true signal via multiplication with a binary Hadamard S matrix. Each group of probe pulses is determined by using the pattern of a row of the Hadamard S matrix and the experiment is completed by rotating this pattern by one step for each sample excitation until the original pattern is again produced. Thus to measure n time points, n excitation events are needed and n probe patterns each taken from the n × n S matrix. The time resolution is determined by the shortest time between the probe pulses. In principle, this method could be used over all timescales, instead of the conventional pump-probe method which uses delay lines for picosecond and faster time resolution, or fast detectors and oscilloscopes on longer timescales. This new method is particularly suitable for situations where the probe intensity is weak and/or the detector is noisy. When the detector is noisy, there is in principle a signal to noise advantage over conventional pump-probe methods.
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Suomivuori CM, Winter NOC, Hättig C, Sundholm D, Kaila VRI. Exploring the Light-Capturing Properties of Photosynthetic Chlorophyll Clusters Using Large-Scale Correlated Calculations. J Chem Theory Comput 2016; 12:2644-51. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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- Carl-Mikael Suomivuori
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 55 (A. I. Virtanens plats
1), FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
- Department
Chemie, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstraße 4, Garching, Germany
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- Ruhr-University at Bochum, Universitätsstraße
150, 44801 Bochum, Germany
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- Ruhr-University at Bochum, Universitätsstraße
150, 44801 Bochum, Germany
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 55 (A. I. Virtanens plats
1), FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Department
Chemie, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstraße 4, Garching, Germany
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Santabarbara S, Galuppini L, Casazza AP. Bidirectional electron transfer in the reaction centre of photosystem I. JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY 2010; 52:735-749. [PMID: 20666929 DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7909.2010.00977.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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In the past decade light-induced electron transfer reactions in photosystem I have been the subject of intensive investigations that have led to the elucidation of some unique characteristics, the most striking of which is the existence of two parallel, functional, redox active cofactors chains. This process is generally referred to as bidirectional electron transfer. Here we present a review of the principal evidences that have led to the uncovering of bidirectionality in the reaction centre of photosystem I. A special focus is dedicated to the results obtained combining time-resolved spectroscopic techniques, either difference absorption or electron paramagnetic resonance, with molecular genetics, which allows, through modification of the binding of redox active cofactors with the reaction centre subunits, an effect on their physical-chemical properties.
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Mammana A, Pescitelli G, Asakawa T, Jockusch S, Petrovic AG, Monaco RR, Purrello R, Turro NJ, Nakanishi K, Ellestad GA, Balaz M, Berova N. Role of environmental factors on the structure and spectroscopic response of 5'-DNA-porphyrin conjugates caused by changes in the porphyrin-porphyrin interactions. Chemistry 2010; 15:11853-66. [PMID: 19844929 DOI: 10.1002/chem.200902029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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We have explored the utility, strength, and limitation of through-space exciton-coupled circular dichroism in determination of the secondary structure of optically active chromophoric nanoarrays using the example of end-capped porphyrin- and metalloporphyrin-oligodeoxynucleotide conjugates. We put special emphasis on the explanation of the origin and significance of the distinctive multiple bands in the CD spectra (trisignate and tetrasignate CD bands). Such CD profiles are often observed in chiral aggregates or multichromophoric arrays but have never before been studied in detail. We found that variation of temperature and ionic strength has a profound effect on the geometry of the porphyrin-DNA conjugates and thus the nature of electronic interactions. At lower temperatures and in the absence of NaCl all three 5'-DNA-porphyrin conjugates display negative bisignate CD exciton couplets of variable intensity in the Soret region resulting from through-space interaction between the electric transition dipole moments of the two end-capped porphyrins. As the temperature is raised these exciton couplets are transformed into single positive bands originating from the porphyrin-single-strand DNA interactions. At higher ionic strengths and low temperatures, multisignate CD bands are observed in the porphyrin Soret region. These CD signature bands originate from a combination of intermolecular, end-to-end porphyrin-porphyrin stacking between duplexes and porphyrin-DNA interactions. The intermolecular aggregation was confirmed by fluorescence and absorption spectroscopy and resonance light scattering. DeVoe theoretical CD calculations, in conjunction with molecular dynamics simulations and Monte Carlo conformational searches, were used to mimic the observed bisignate exciton-coupled CD spectra as well as multiple CD bands. Calculations correctly predicted the sign and shape of the experimentally observed CD spectra. These studies reveal that the exciton-coupled circular dichroism is a very useful technique for the determination of the structure of optically active arrays.
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- Angela Mammana
- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, 3000 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA
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Santabarbara S, Heathcote P, Evans MCW. Modelling of the electron transfer reactions in Photosystem I by electron tunnelling theory: The phylloquinones bound to the PsaA and the PsaB reaction centre subunits of PS I are almost isoenergetic to the iron–sulfur cluster FX. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2005; 1708:283-310. [PMID: 15975545 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2005.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2004] [Revised: 04/12/2005] [Accepted: 05/03/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Photosystem I is a large macromolecular complex located in the thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts and in cyanobacteria that catalyses the light driven reduction of ferredoxin and oxidation of plastocyanin. Due to the very negative redox potential of the primary electron transfer cofactors accepting electrons, direct estimation by redox titration of the energetics of the system is hampered. However, the rates of electron transfer reactions are related to the thermodynamic properties of the system. Hence, several spectroscopic and biochemical techniques have been employed, in combination with the classical Marcus theory for electron transfer tunnelling, in order to access these parameters. Nevertheless, the values which have been presented are very variable. In particular, for the case of the tightly bound phylloquinone molecule A(1), the values of the redox potentials reported in the literature vary over a range of about 350 mV. Previous models of Photosystem I have assumed a unidirectional electron transfer model. In the present study, experimental evidence obtained by means of time resolved absorption, photovoltage, and electron paramagnetic resonance measurements are reviewed and analysed in terms of a bi-directional kinetic model for electron transfer reactions. This model takes into consideration the thermodynamic equilibrium between the iron-sulfur centre F(X) and the phylloquinone bound to either the PsaA (A(1A)) or the PsaB (A(1B)) subunit of the reaction centre and the equilibrium between the iron-sulfur centres F(A) and F(B). The experimentally determined decay lifetimes in the range of sub-picosecond to the microsecond time domains can be satisfactorily simulated, taking into consideration the edge-to-edge distances between redox cofactors and driving forces reported in the literature. The only exception to this general behaviour is the case of phylloquinone (A(1)) reoxidation. In order to describe the reported rates of the biphasic decay, of about 20 and 200 ns, associated with this electron transfer step, the redox potentials of the quinones are estimated to be almost isoenergetic with that of the iron sulfur centre F(X). A driving force in the range of 5 to 15 meV is estimated for these reactions, being slightly exergonic in the case of the A(1B) quinone and slightly endergonic, in the case of the A(1A) quinone. The simulation presented in this analysis not only describes the kinetic data obtained for the wild type samples at room temperature and is consistent with estimates of activation energy by the analysis of temperature dependence, but can also explain the effect of the mutations around the PsaB quinone binding pocket. A model of the overall energetics of the system is derived, which suggests that the only substantially irreversible electron transfer reactions are the reoxidation of A(0) on both electron transfer branches and the reduction of F(A) by F(X).
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- Stefano Santabarbara
- School of Biological Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK.
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Brüggemann B, Sznee K, Novoderezhkin V, van Grondelle R, May V. From Structure to Dynamics: Modeling Exciton Dynamics in the Photosynthetic Antenna PS1. J Phys Chem B 2004. [DOI: 10.1021/jp0401473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- B. Brüggemann
- Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Newtonstr. 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany, Division of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences and Institute of Molecular Biological Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow 119899, Russia
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- Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Newtonstr. 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany, Division of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences and Institute of Molecular Biological Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow 119899, Russia
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- Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Newtonstr. 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany, Division of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences and Institute of Molecular Biological Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow 119899, Russia
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- Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Newtonstr. 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany, Division of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences and Institute of Molecular Biological Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow 119899, Russia
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- Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Newtonstr. 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany, Division of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences and Institute of Molecular Biological Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow 119899, Russia
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Müller MG, Niklas J, Lubitz W, Holzwarth AR. Ultrafast transient absorption studies on Photosystem I reaction centers from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. 1. A new interpretation of the energy trapping and early electron transfer steps in Photosystem I. Biophys J 2004; 85:3899-922. [PMID: 14645079 PMCID: PMC1303691 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(03)74804-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 153] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The energy transfer and charge separation kinetics in core Photosystem I (PSI) particles of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has been studied using ultrafast transient absorption in the femtosecond-to-nanosecond time range. Although the energy transfer processes in the antenna are found to be generally in good agreement with previous interpretations, we present evidence that the interpretation of the energy trapping and electron transfer processes in terms of both kinetics and mechanisms has to be revised substantially as compared to current interpretations in the literature. We resolved for the first time i), the transient difference spectrum for the excited reaction center state, and ii), the formation and decay of the primary radical pair and its intermediate spectrum directly from measurements on open PSI reaction centers. It is shown that the dominant energy trapping lifetime due to charge separation is only 6-9 ps, i.e., by a factor of 3 shorter than assumed so far. The spectrum of the first radical pair shows the expected strong bleaching band at 680 nm which decays again in the next electron transfer step. We show furthermore that the early electron transfer processes up to approximately 100 ps are more complex than assumed so far. Several possibilities are discussed for the intermediate redox states and their sequence which involve oxidation of P700 in the first electron transfer step, as assumed so far, or only in the second electron transfer step, which would represent a fundamental change from the presently assumed mechanism. To explain the data we favor the inclusion of an additional redox state in the electron transfer scheme. Thus we distinguish three different redox intermediates on the timescale up to 100 ps. At this level no final conclusion as to the exact mechanism and the nature of the intermediates can be drawn, however. From comparison of our data with fluorescence kinetics in the literature we also propose a reversible first charge separation step which has been excluded so far for open PSI reaction centers. For the first time an ultrafast 150-fs equilibration process, occurring among exciton states in the reaction center proper, upon direct excitation of the reaction center at 700 nm, has been resolved. Taken together the data call for a fundamental revision of the present understanding of the energy trapping and early electron transfer kinetics in the PSI reaction center. Due to the fact that it shows the fastest trapping time observed so far of any intact PSI particle, the PSI core of C. reinhardtii seems to be best suited to further characterize the electron transfer steps and mechanisms in the reaction center of PSI.
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- Marc G Müller
- Max-Planck-Institut für Bioanorganische Chemie, Stiftstr 34-36, D-45470 Mülheim ad Ruhr, Germany
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Gibasiewicz K, Ramesh VM, Lin S, Redding K, Woodbury NW, Webber AN. Excitonic interactions in wild-type and mutant PSI reaction centers. Biophys J 2004; 85:2547-59. [PMID: 14507717 PMCID: PMC1303478 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(03)74677-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Femtosecond excitation of the red edge of the chlorophyll a Q(Y) transition band in photosystem I (PSI), with light of wavelength > or = 700 nm, leads to wide transient (subpicosecond) absorbance changes: positive DeltaA between 635 and 665 nm, and four negative DeltaA bands at 667, 675, 683, and 695 nm. Here we compare the transient absorbance changes after excitation at 700, 705, and 710 nm at 20 K in several PSI preparations of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii where amino acid ligands of the primary donor, primary acceptor, or connecting chlorophylls have been mutated. Most of these mutations influence the spectrum of the absorbance changes. This supports the view that the chlorophylls of the electron transfer chain as well as the connecting chlorophylls are engaged in the observed absorbance changes. The wide absorption spectrum of the electron transfer chain revealed by the transient measurements may contribute to the high efficiency of energy trapping in photosystem 1. Exciton calculations, based on the recent PSI structure, allow an assignment of the DeltaA bands to particular chlorophylls: the bands at 675 and 695 nm to the dimers of primary acceptor and accessory chlorophyll and the band at 683 nm to the connecting chlorophylls. The subpicosecond transient absorption bands decay may reflect rapid charge separation in the PSI reaction center.
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- Krzysztof Gibasiewicz
- Department of Plant Biology and Center for the Study of Early Events in Photosynthesis, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1601 USA
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Kumazaki S, Ikegami I, Furusawa H, Yoshihara K. Energy Equilibration among the Chlorophylls in the Electron-Transfer System of Photosystem I Reaction Center from Spinach. J Phys Chem A 2002. [DOI: 10.1021/jp026532e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Shigeichi Kumazaki
- School of Materials Sciences, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan, and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo University, Sagamiko, Kanagawa, 199-0195, Japan
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- School of Materials Sciences, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan, and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo University, Sagamiko, Kanagawa, 199-0195, Japan
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- School of Materials Sciences, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan, and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo University, Sagamiko, Kanagawa, 199-0195, Japan
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- School of Materials Sciences, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan, and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo University, Sagamiko, Kanagawa, 199-0195, Japan
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Gibasiewicz K, Ramesh VM, Lin S, Woodbury NW, Webber AN. Excitation Dynamics in Eukaryotic PS I from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii CC 2696 at 10 K. Direct Detection of the Reaction Center Exciton States. J Phys Chem B 2002. [DOI: 10.1021/jp014608l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Krzysztof Gibasiewicz
- Department of Plant Biology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for the Study of Early Events in Photosynthesis, Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona 85287-1601, USA and Department of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Umultowska 85, 61−614 Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Plant Biology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for the Study of Early Events in Photosynthesis, Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona 85287-1601, USA and Department of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Umultowska 85, 61−614 Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Plant Biology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for the Study of Early Events in Photosynthesis, Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona 85287-1601, USA and Department of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Umultowska 85, 61−614 Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Plant Biology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for the Study of Early Events in Photosynthesis, Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona 85287-1601, USA and Department of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Umultowska 85, 61−614 Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Plant Biology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for the Study of Early Events in Photosynthesis, Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona 85287-1601, USA and Department of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Umultowska 85, 61−614 Poznań, Poland
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Gibasiewicz K, Ramesh VM, Melkozernov AN, Lin S, Woodbury NW, Blankenship RE, Webber AN. Excitation Dynamics in the Core Antenna of PS I from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii CC 2696 at Room Temperature. J Phys Chem B 2001. [DOI: 10.1021/jp012089g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Krzysztof Gibasiewicz
- Department of Plant Biology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Center for the Study of Early Events in Photosynthesis, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1601, and Institute of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Plant Biology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Center for the Study of Early Events in Photosynthesis, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1601, and Institute of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Plant Biology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Center for the Study of Early Events in Photosynthesis, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1601, and Institute of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Plant Biology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Center for the Study of Early Events in Photosynthesis, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1601, and Institute of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Plant Biology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Center for the Study of Early Events in Photosynthesis, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1601, and Institute of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Plant Biology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Center for the Study of Early Events in Photosynthesis, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1601, and Institute of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Plant Biology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Center for the Study of Early Events in Photosynthesis, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1601, and Institute of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
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Gobets B, van Grondelle R. Energy transfer and trapping in photosystem I. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2001; 1507:80-99. [PMID: 11687209 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2728(01)00203-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 258] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- B Gobets
- Division of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Exact Sciences and Institute of Molecular Biological Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Kumazaki S, Ikegami I, Furusawa H, Yasuda S, Yoshihara K. Observation of the Excited State of the Primary Electron Donor Chlorophyll (P700) and the Ultrafast Charge Separation in the Spinach Photosystem I Reaction Center. J Phys Chem B 2001. [DOI: 10.1021/jp003122m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Shigeichi Kumazaki
- School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan, and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo University, Sagamiko, Kanagawa, 199-0195, Japan
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- School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan, and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo University, Sagamiko, Kanagawa, 199-0195, Japan
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- School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan, and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo University, Sagamiko, Kanagawa, 199-0195, Japan
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- School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan, and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo University, Sagamiko, Kanagawa, 199-0195, Japan
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- School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan, and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo University, Sagamiko, Kanagawa, 199-0195, Japan
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Melkozernov AN, Lin S, Blankenship RE. Femtosecond transient spectroscopy and excitonic interactions in Photosystem I. J Phys Chem B 2000; 104:1651-6. [PMID: 11543525 DOI: 10.1021/jp993257w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
Ultrafast dynamics of excitation transfer in the Photosystem I (PSI) core antenna from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 were detected at 77 K by using femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy with selective excitation at 700, 695, and 710 nm. At low temperature, the efficiency of uphill energy transfer in the core antenna significantly decreases. As a result, the spectral profile of the PSI equilibrated antenna shifts to lower energies because of a change of chlorophyll (Chl) excited-state distribution. Observed on a 2-ns time scale, P700 photooxidation spectra are largely excitation wavelength independent. In the early time spectra, excitation of P700 induces transient photobleaching at 698 nm accompanied by a resonant photobleaching band at 683 nm decaying within 250-300 fs. Chemical oxidation of P700 does not affect the transient band at 683 nm. This band is also present in 200-fs spectra induced by selective excitation of Chls at 710 nm (red pigments C708), which suggests that this high-energy transition may reflect an excitonic interaction between pigments of the reaction center and closely located red pigments. Possible candidates for the interacting molecules in the 4-angstroms crystal structure of cyanobacterial PSI are discussed.
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- A N Melkozernov
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for the Study of Early Events in Photosynthesis, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287-1604, USA
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Melkozernov AN, Lin S, Blankenship RE. Excitation dynamics and heterogeneity of energy equilibration in the core antenna of photosystem I from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Biochemistry 2000; 39:1489-98. [PMID: 10684631 DOI: 10.1021/bi991644q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Energy equilibration in the photosystem I core antenna from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 was studied using femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy at 298 K. The photosystem I core particles were excited at 660, 693, and 710 nm with 150 fs spectrally narrow laser pulses (fwhm = 5 nm). Global analysis revealed three kinetic processes in the core antenna with lifetimes of 250-500 fs, 1.5-2.5 ps, and 20-30 ps. The first two components represent strongly excitation wavelength-dependent energy equilibration processes while the 20-30 ps phase reflects the trapping of energy by the reaction center. Excitation into the blue and red edge of the absorption band induces downhill and uphill energy flows, respectively, between different chlorophyll a spectral forms of the core. Excitation at 660 nm induces a 500 fs downhill equilibration process within the bulk of antenna while the selective excitation of long-wavelength-absorbing chlorophylls at 710 nm results in a 380 fs uphill energy transfer to the chlorophylls absorbing around 695-700 nm, presumably reaction center pigments. The 1.5-2.5 ps phases of downhill and uphill energy transfer are largely equivalent but opposite in direction, indicating energy equilibration between bulk antenna chlorophylls at 685 nm and spectral forms absorbing below 700 nm. Transient absorption spectra with excitation at 693 nm exhibit spectral evolution within approximately 2 ps of uphill energy transfer to major spectral forms at 680 nm and downhill energy transfer to red pigments at 705 nm. The 20-30 ps trapping component and P(700) photooxidation spectra derived from data on the 100 ps scale are largely excitation wavelength independent. An additional decay component of red pigments at 710 nm can be induced either by selective excitation of red pigments or by decreasing the temperature to 264 K. This component may represent one of the phases of energy transfer from inhomogeneously broadened red pigments to P(700). The data are discussed based on the available structural model of the photosystem I reaction center and its core antenna.
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- A N Melkozernov
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for the Study of Early Events in Photosynthesis, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, USA
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