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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 11, Issue 3, Pages 1059-1067Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b03628
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [Pa 324/10-1]
- MIUR [2015XBZ5YA]
- Department of Excellence program NExuS
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The interplay between active molecules and the protein environment in light-harvesting complexes tunes the photophysics and the dynamical properties of pigment-protein complexes in a subtle way, which is not fully understood. Here we characterized the photophysics and the ultrafast dynamics of four variants of the water-soluble chlorophyll protein (WSCP) as an ideal model system to study the behavior of strongly interacting chlorophylls. We found that when coordinated by the WSCP protein, the presence of the formyl group in chlorophyll b replacing the methyl group in chlorophyll a strongly affects the exciton energy and the dynamics of the system, opening up the possibility of tuning the photophysics and the transport properties of multichromophores by engineering specific interactions with the surroundings.
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