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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS
Volume 1857, Issue 1, Pages 115-128Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2015.09.012
Keywords
Photosystem II; Fluorescence; Lowest excited states; Circular dichroism; Circularly polarized luminescence; Dynamic localization
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- Australian Research Council [DP110104565, DP150103137]
- Australian Government through an APA
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P24774-N27]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P 24774] Funding Source: researchfish
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P24774] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
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Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) spectroscopy is an established but relatively little-used technique that monitors the chirality of an emission. When applied to photosynthetic pigment assemblies, we find that CPL provides sensitive and detailed information on low-energy exciton states, reflecting the interactions, site energies and geometries of interacting pigments. CPL is the emission analog of circular dichroism (CD) and thus spectra explore the optical activity only of fluorescent states of the pigment-protein complex and consequently the nature of the lowest-energy excited states (trap states), whose study is a critical area of photosynthesis research. In this work, we develop the new approach of temperature-dependent CPL spectroscopy, over the 2-120 K temperature range, and apply it to the CP43 proximal antenna protein of photosystem II. Our results confirm strong excitonic interactions for at least one of the two well-established emitting states of CP43 named A and B. Previous structure-based models of CP43 spectra are evaluated in the light of the new CPL data. Our analysis supports the assignments of Shibata et al. [Shibata et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135 (2013) 6903-6914], particularly for the highly-delocalized B-state. This state dominates CPL spectra and is attributed predominantly to chlorophyll a's labeled Chl 634 and Chl 636 (alternatively labeled Chl 43 and 45 by Shibata et al.). The absence of any CPL intensity in intramolecular vibrational sidebands associated with the delocalized B excited state is attributed to the dynamic localization of intramolecular vibronic transitions. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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