Spectroscopy of individual light-harvesting 2 complexes of Rhodopseudomonas acidophila: diagonal disorder, intercomplex heterogeneity, spectral diffusion, and energy transfer in the B800 band |
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Authors: | van Oijen A M Ketelaars M Köhler J Aartsma T J Schmidt J |
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Institution: | Centre for the Study of Excited States of Molecules, Huygens Laboratory, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands. antoine@molphys.leidenuniv.nl |
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Abstract: | This paper reports a detailed spectroscopic study of the B800 absorption band of individual light-harvesting 2 (LH2) complexes of the photosynthetic purple bacterium Rhodopseudomonas acidophila at 1. 2 K. By applying single-molecule detection techniques to this system, details and properties can be revealed that remain obscured in conventional ensemble experiments. For instance, from fluorescence-excitation spectra of the individual complexes a more direct measure of the diagonal disorder could be obtained. Further spectral diffusion phenomena and homogeneous linewidths of individual bacteriochlorophyll a (BChl a) molecules are observed, revealing valuable information on excited-state dynamics. This work demonstrates that it is possible to obtain detailed spectral information on individual pigment-protein complexes, providing direct insight into their electronic structure and into the mechanisms underlying the highly efficient energy transfer processes in these systems. |
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