Abstract
The current generally accepted structure of light-harvesting LH2 complexes from purple phototrophic bacteria conflicts with the observation of singlet-triplet carotenoid excitation fission in these complexes. In LH2 complexes from the purple bacterium Allochromatium minutissimum, a drop in the efficiency of carotenoid triplet generation is demonstrated, which correlates with the extent of selective photooxidation of bacteriochlorophylls absorbing at ∼850 nm. We conclude that singlet-triplet fission of carotenoid excitation proceeds with participation of these excitonically coupled bacteriochlorophylls. In the framework of the proposed mechanism, the contradiction between LH2 structure and photophysical properties of carotenoids is eliminated. The possibility of singlet-triplet excitation fission involving a third mediator molecule was not considered earlier.
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Abbreviations
- BChl:
-
bacteriochlorophyll
- Car:
-
carotenoid
- CD:
-
circular dichroism
- LH2:
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peripheral light-harvesting complex
- RC:
-
reaction center
- TR EPR:
-
time-resolved electron paramagnetic resonance
- ZFS:
-
zero field splitting
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Published in Russian in Biokhimiya, 2014, Vol. 79, No. 3, pp. 310–317.
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Klenina, I.B., Makhneva, Z.K., Moskalenko, A.A. et al. Singlet-triplet fission of carotenoid excitation in light-harvesting LH2 complexes of purple phototrophic bacteria. Biochemistry Moscow 79, 235–241 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006297914030092
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