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Excitation energy transfer in Photosystem I from oxygenic organisms

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This Review discusses energy transfer pathways in Photosystem I (PS I) from oxygenic organisms. In the trimeric PS I core from cyanobacteria, the efficiency of solar energy conversion is largely determined by ultrafast excitation transfer processes in the core chlorophyll a (Chl a) antenna network and efficient photochemical trapping in the reaction center (RC). The role of clusters of Chl a in energy equilibration and photochemical trapping in the PS I core is discussed. Dimers of the longest-wavelength absorbing (red) pigments with strongest excitonic interactions localize the excitation in the PS I core antenna. Those dimers that are located closer to the RC participate in a fast energy equilibration with coupled pigments of the RC. This suggests that the function of the red pigments is to concentrate the excitation near the RC. In the PS I holocomplex from algae and higher plants, in addition to the red pigments of the core antenna, spectrally distinct red pigments are bound to the peripheral Chl a/b-binding light-harvesting antenna (LHC I), specifically to the Lhca4 subunit of the LHC I-730 complex. Intramonomeric energy equilibration between pools of Chl b and Chl a in Lhca1 and Lhca4 monomers of the LHC I-730 heterodimer are as fast as the energy equilibration processes within the PS I core. In contrast to the structural stability of the PS I core, the flexible subunit structure of the LHC I would probably determine the observed slow excitation energy equilibration processes in the range of tens of picoseconds. The red pigments in the LHC I are suggested to function largely as photoprotective excitation sinks in the peripheral antenna of PS I.

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Melkozernov, A.N. Excitation energy transfer in Photosystem I from oxygenic organisms. Photosynthesis Research 70, 129–153 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017909325669

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