Photoprotection Mechanism of Light-Harvesting Antenna Complex from Purple Bacteria

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• 作者：Daisuke Kosumi ; Tomoko Horibe ; Mitsuru Sugisaki ; Richard J. Cogdell ; Hideki Hashimoto
• 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry B
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 11, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：120
• 期：5
• 页码：951-956
• 全文大小：429K
• ISSN：1520-5207

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Photosynthetic light-harvesting apparatus efficiently capture sunlight and transfer the energy to reaction centers, while they safely dissipate excess energy to surrounding environments for a protection of their organisms. In this study, we performed pump–probe spectroscopic measurements with a temporal window ranging from femtosecond to submillisecond on the purple bacterial antenna complex LH2 from Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1 to clarify its photoprotection functions. The observed excited state dynamics in the time range from subnanosecond to microsecond exhibits that the triplet–triplet excitation energy transfer from bacteriochlorophyll a to carotenoid takes place with a time constant of 16.7 ns. Furthermore, ultrafast spectroscopic data suggests that a molecular assembly of bacteriochlorophyll a in LH2 efficiently suppresses a generation of triple bacteriochlorophyll a.