| Autor: |
Gobets, B., Kennis, J. T. M., Ihalainen, J. A., Brazzoli, M., Croce, R., Stokkum, I. H. M. van, Bassi, R., Dekker, J. P., Amerongen, H. van, Fleming, G. R., Grondelle, R. van |
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The Journal of Physical Chemistry - Part B; October 2001, Vol. 105 Issue: 41 p10132-10139, 8p |
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The excitation dynamics in isolated dimers of light harvesting complex I, the peripheral light harvesting complex associated with photosystem I in green plants, was studied by time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. A unique combination of two techniques, fluorescence upconversion and synchroscan streak-camera measurements, revealed the energy transfer and decay of excitations over a time range from a hundred femtoseconds up to several nanoseconds, over a spectral range from 570 to 780 nm. Energy transfer from initially excited carotenoid S2 states to the chlorophylls was found to occur within 0.15 ps. Energy transfer from chlorophyll b (Chlb)to chlorophyll a (Chla) occurred with two distinctly different lifetimes of 0.5 and 2−3 ps. The 0.5 ps component mainly reflects transfer to bulk Chla, whereas the 2−3 ps component may also account for direct transfer to the special red-shifted Chla forms. Equilibration between the bulk Chla's and these red-shifted forms occurs with lifetimes of 4−8 and ~20 ps, which are assigned to intra- and intermonomer equilibration, respectively. After completion of the energy transfer processes, the fluorescence decays biexponentially. The largest fraction of excitations (75−80%) decays with a 3 ns time constant, which is attributed to both the Lhca1/Lhca4 heterodimer and a homodimer of either Lhca2 or Lhca3, whereas the remaining fraction, which decays in 0.6 ns, is assigned to the remaining homodimer. A comparison is made between the kinetics of LHCI and the more well studied CP29 and LHCII light harvesting complexes of photosystem II, which belong to the same family of Lhca/b light harvesting proteins, but do not feature the unique red-shifted Chla forms which are found in LHCI. |
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