Abstract
Isolated trimeric Photosystem I complexes of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus have been studied with absorption spectroscopy and site-selective polarized fluorescence spectroscopy at cryogenic temperatures. The 4 K absorption spectrum exhibits a clear and distinct peak at 710 nm and shoulders near 720, 698 and 692 nm apart from the strong absorption profile located at 680 nm. Deconvoluting the 4 K absorption spectrum with Gaussian components revealed that Synechococcus elongatus contains two types of long-wavelength pigments peaking at 708 nm and 719 nm, which we denoted C-708 and C-719, respectively. An estimate of the oscillator strengths revealed that Synechococcus elongatus contains about 4–5 C-708 pigments and 5–6 C-719 pigments. At 4 K and for excitation wavelengths shorter than 712 nm, the emission maximum appeared at 731 nm. For excitation wavelengths longer than 712 nm, the emission maximum shifted to the red, and for excitation in the far red edge of the absorption spectrum the emission maximum was observed 10–11 nm to the red with respect to the excitation wavelength, which indicates that the Stokes shift of C-719 is 10–11 nm. The fluorescence anisotropy, as calculated in the emission maximum, reached a maximal anisotropy of r=0.35 for excitation in the far red edge of the absorption spectrum (at and above 730 nm), and showed a complicated behavior for excitation at shorter wavelengths. The results suggest efficient energy transfer routes between C-708 and C-719 pigments and also among the C-719 pigments.
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Abbreviations
- Chl:
-
chlorophyll
- FWHM:
-
full width at half maximum
- PS I:
-
Photosystem I
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Pålsson, LO., Dekker, J.P., Schlodder, E. et al. Polarized site-selective fluorescence spectroscopy of the long-wavelength emitting chlorophylls in isolated Photosystem I particles of Synechococcus elongatus . Photosynth Res 48, 239–246 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00041014
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