Effect of Spectral Density Shapes on the Excitonic Structure and Dynamics of the Fenna–Matthews–Olson Trimer from Chlorobaculum tepidum

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• 作者：Adam Kell ; Robert E. Blankenship ; Ryszard Jankowiak
• 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry A
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：August 11, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：120
• 期：31
• 页码：6146-6154
• 全文大小：521K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1520-5215

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The Fenna–Matthews–Olson (FMO) trimer (composed of identical subunits) from the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum is an important protein model system to study exciton dynamics and excitation energy transfer (EET) in photosynthetic complexes. In addition, FMO is a popular model for excitonic calculations, with many theoretical parameter sets reported describing different linear and nonlinear optical spectra. Due to fast exciton relaxation within each subunit, intermonomer EET results predominantly from the lowest energy exciton states (contributed to by BChl a 3 and 4). Using experimentally determined shapes for the spectral densities, simulated optical spectra are obtained for the entire FMO trimer. Simultaneous fits of low-temperature absorption, fluorescence, and hole-burned spectra place constraints on the determined pigment site energies, providing a new Hamiltonian that should be further tested to improve modeling of 2D electronic spectroscopy data and our understanding of coherent and dissipation effects in this important protein complex.