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Energy migration in purple bacteria. The criterion for discrimination between migration- and trapping-limited photosynthetic units

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A criterion has been evolved for distinguishing between migration- and trapping-limited photosynthetic units (PSUs). Its application to purple bacteria has proved their PSUs to be of trapping-limited type. It means that any improvements of the molecular structure of their PSUs cannot noticeably increase the overall rate constant of excitation delivery from antenna BChls to reaction centers (RCs).

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Abbreviations

PSUs:

photosynthetic units

RCs:

reaction centers

Chl:

chlorophyll

BChl:

bacteriochlorophyll

R:

intermolecular distance, Φe

ΦΣ :

quantum yields of the primary excitation trapping and wasteful losses respectively

τfl :

excitation and fluorescence lifetimes respectively

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Borisov, A.Y. Energy migration in purple bacteria. The criterion for discrimination between migration- and trapping-limited photosynthetic units. Photosynth Res 23, 283–289 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00034858

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