Abstract
Spectral hole burning studies of intact cells of the green bacteriumChlorobium phaeovibrioides have proven that the Qy-absorption system of antenna bacteriochlorophylle (BChle) should be interpreted in terms of the delocalized exciton level structure of an aggregate. For the first time the 0-0 band of the lowest exciton state of BChle aggregates has been directly detected as the lowest energy inhomogeneously broadened band (FWHM ∼ 100 cm−1; position of maximum, at ∼ 739 nm) of the near-infrared BChle band in the 1.8 K excitation spectrum (FWHM=750 cm−1; position of maximum, at 715 nm). The comparative analysis of the hole spectra, measured for the three species of BChlc- ande-containing green bacteria, has shown that the 0-0 transition bands of the lowest exciton state of BChlc ande aggregates display fundamentally similar spectral features: (1) the magnitude of inhomogeneous broadening of these bands is about 100 cm−1; (2) at the wavelength of the maximum of each band, the amplitude of the preburnt excitation spectrum makes up 20% of the maximum amplitude of the spectrum; (3) the spectral position of each band coincides with the spectral position of the longest wavelength band of the circular dichroism spectrum; (4) the width of these bands is ∼ 2.3-times less than that of monomeric BChl in vitro.
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Abbreviations
- BChl:
-
bacteriochlorophyll
- FWHM:
-
full width at half maximum
- ZPH:
-
zero-phonon hole
- FMO complex:
-
Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex
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Fetisova, Z.G., Mauring, K. & Taisova, A.S. Strongly exciton-coupled BChle chromophore system in the chlorosomal antenna of intact cells of the green bacteriumChlorobium phaeovibrioides: A spectral hole burning study. Photosynth Res 41, 205–210 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02184161
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