Efficient light harvesting through carotenoids |
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Authors: | Ritz Thorsten Damjanović Ana Schulten Klaus Zhang Jian-Ping Koyama Yasushi |
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Affiliation: | (1) Theoretical Biophysics Group, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA;(2) Theoretical Biophysics Group, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA;(3) Faculty of Science, Kwansei Gakuin University, Uegahara, Nishinomiya 662, Japan |
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Abstract: | We review the factors that control the efficiency of carotenoid-chlorophyll excitation transfer in photosynthetic light harvesting. For this we summarize first the recently developed theory that describes electronic couplings between carotenoids and chlorophylls and we outline in particular the influence of length of conjugated system and of symmetry breaking on the couplings. We focus hereby on the structurally solved lycopene-BChl system of LH 2 from Rhodospirillum molischianum and the peridinin-Chl a system of PCP from Amphidinium carterae. In addition, we review recent spectroscopic data for neurosporene, spheroidene and lycopene, three carotenoids with different lengths of conjugated systems. On the basis of the measured energies, emission lineshapes, solution and protein environment lifetimes for their 2A− g and 1Bu + states as well as of the theoretically determined couplings, we conclude that the transfer efficiencies from the 2Ag − state are controlled by the Car(2Ag −)–BChl(Qg) electronic couplings and the 2Ag − → 1Ag − internal conversion rates. We suggest that symmetry breaking and geometry rather than length of conjugated system dominate couplings involving the 2Ag − state. Differences in transfer efficiencies from the 1Bu + state in LH 2 and PCP are found to be dominated by the differences in spectral overlap. The role of the 1Bu + state is likely to be influenced by a lower-lying (in longer polyenes), optically forbidden 1Bu − state. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | coulomb coupling excitation transfer F?rster theory light-harvesting complexes |
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