Ultrafast excitation energy transfer dynamics in photosynthetic pigment–protein complexes

2001 ◽  
Vol 343 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Renger ◽  
Volkhard May ◽  
Oliver Kühn
Keyword(s):  
Energy Transfer ◽  
Excitation Energy ◽  
Protein Complexes ◽  
Photosynthetic Pigment ◽  
Excitation Energy Transfer ◽  
Pigment Protein Complexes

Excitation energy transfer in carotenoid-chlorophyll protein complexes probed by femtosecond fluorescence decays

1996 ◽  
Vol 260 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 147-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seiji Akimoto ◽  
Sinichi Takaichi ◽  
Takehiko Ogata ◽  
Yoshinobu Nishimura ◽  
Iwao Yamazaki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Transfer ◽  
Excitation Energy ◽  
Protein Complexes ◽  
Excitation Energy Transfer ◽  
Chlorophyll Protein Complexes ◽  
Chlorophyll Protein

scholarly journals Excitation energy transfer between monomolecular layers of light harvesting LH2 and LH1-reaction centre complexes printed on a glass substrate

Lab on a Chip ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (14) ◽  
pp. 2529-2538
Author(s):  
Xia Huang ◽  
Cvetelin Vasilev ◽  
C. Neil Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Energy Transfer ◽  
Glass Substrate ◽  
Light Harvesting ◽  
Protein Complexes ◽  
Excitation Energy Transfer ◽  
Artificial Light ◽  
Reaction Centre ◽  
Bacterial Pigment ◽  
Pigment Protein Complexes ◽  
Monomolecular Layers

Remarkably stable artificial light-harvesting arrays capable of harvesting and trapping solar energy were fabricated using purified bacterial pigment–protein complexes.

scholarly journals Photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes as highly connected networks: implications for robust energy transport

2017 ◽  
Vol 473 (2201) ◽  
pp. 20170112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis A. Baker ◽  
Scott Habershon
Keyword(s):  
Energy Transport ◽  
Light Harvesting ◽  
Higher Plants ◽  
Protein Complexes ◽  
Photosynthetic Pigment ◽  
Excitation Energy Transfer ◽  
Reaction Centre ◽  
Lhc Ii ◽  
Pigment Protein Complexes

Photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes (PPCs) are a vital component of the light-harvesting machinery of all plants and photosynthesizing bacteria, enabling efficient transport of the energy of absorbed light towards the reaction centre, where chemical energy storage is initiated. PPCs comprise a set of chromophore molecules, typically bacteriochlorophyll species, held in a well-defined arrangement by a protein scaffold; this relatively rigid distribution leads to a viewpoint in which the chromophore subsystem is treated as a network, where chromophores represent vertices and inter-chromophore electronic couplings represent edges. This graph-based view can then be used as a framework within which to interrogate the role of structural and electronic organization in PPCs. Here, we use this network-based viewpoint to compare excitation energy transfer (EET) dynamics in the light-harvesting complex II (LHC-II) system commonly found in higher plants and the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) complex found in green sulfur bacteria. The results of our simple network-based investigations clearly demonstrate the role of network connectivity and multiple EET pathways on the efficient and robust EET dynamics in these PPCs, and highlight a role for such considerations in the development of new artificial light-harvesting systems.

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