Abstract
Spectroscopy was used to investigate the fluorescence quenching mechanism in light-harvesting complex 2 (LHC2). The 77 K fluorescence excitation spectroscopy was performed for detection of aggregation state of LHC2 treated with different concentrations of octylphenol poly(ethyleneglycol ether)10 (TX-100). Resonance Raman (RR) spectra excited with 488, 496, and 514 nm provided molecular configuration of neoxanthin, lutein 1, and lutein 2, respectively. At increased concentration of TX-100, the RR signals of xanthophylls were enhanced in the four frequency regions, which was accompanied with increase of fluorescence of chlorophyll (Chl) a. Thus the absorption of the three xanthophyll molecules was inclined to excitation wavelength, which proved that functional configurations of xanthophyll molecules in LHC2 were vital for fast transfer of excitation energy to Chl a molecules. Changes in the v4 region (C-H out-of-plane bending modes, at ∼960 cm−1 in RR spectra) demonstrated that the twist feature of neoxanthin, lutein 1, and lutein 2 molecules existed in LHC2 trimers, however, it was lost in the LHC2 macro-aggregates. In the second derivative absorption spectra of LHC2, neoxanthin absorption was not detected in LHC2 macro-aggregates, while evident absorption was found in LHC2 trimers and this absorption decreased obviously when TX-100 concentration was higher than 1 mM. Hence the neoxanthin molecule had a structural role in formation of LHC2 trimers. The RR and absorption spectra also implied that carotenoid molecules constructed the functional LHC2 trimers via their intrinsic configuration features, which enabled energy transfer to Chl a efficiently and led to lower fluorescence quenching efficiency. In contrast, these intrinsic twist configurations were lost in LHC2 macro-aggregates and led to lower energy transfer efficiency and higher fluorescence quenching efficiency.
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Abbreviations
- Car:
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carotenoid
- Chl:
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chlorophyll
- LHC2:
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light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b complex of photosystem 2
- PS:
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photosystem
- RC:
-
reaction centre
- RR:
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Resonance Raman
- TX-100:
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octylphenol poly(ethyleneglycol ether)100
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Hu, Z.H., Zhou, F. & Yang, C.H. Effect of detergent on aggregation of the light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b complex of photosystem 2 and its impact for carotenoid function and fluorescence quenching. Photosynthetica 44, 615–621 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11099-006-0080-z
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