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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
卷 4, 期 10, 页码 3924-3933出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3sc51518d
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- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0001035]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (UK)
- BBSRC [BB/G021546/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/G021546/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Native length bacterial light-harvesting peptides carrying covalently attached designer chromophores have been created that self-assemble with native bacteriochlorophyll a (BChl a) to afford stable antennas with enhanced spectral coverage. Native (or native-like) alpha- and beta-peptides interact with each other and BChl a to form a heterodimeric (alpha beta-dyad) unit that can then oligomerize to form biohybrid analogs of the bacterial core light-harvesting complex (LH1). Pairs of distinct synthetic chromophores were incorporated in alpha beta-dyads at selected distances from the BChl a target site (position 0). Two designs were explored. One design used green-yellow absorbing/emitting Oregon Green at the -34 position (toward the N-terminus relative to the BChl a coordination site) of b and orange-red absorbing/emitting Rhodamine Red at the -20 position of alpha, which combine with BChl a to give homogeneous oligomers. A second design used two different beta-peptide conjugates, one with Oregon Green at the -34 position and the second with a near-infrared absorbing/emitting synthetic bacteriochlorin at the -14 position, which combine with a and BChl a to give a heterogeneous mixture of oligomers. The designs afford antennas with -45 to -60 pigments, provide enhanced spectral coverage across the visible and near-infrared regions relative to native antennas, and accommodate pigments at remote sites that contribute to solar light harvesting via an energy-transfer cascade. The efficiencies of energy-transfer to the BChl a target in the biohybrid antennas are comparable to native antennas, as revealed by static and time-resolved absorption and emission studies. The results show that the biohybrid approach, where designer chromophores are integrated via semisynthesis with native-like scaffolding, constitutes a versatile platform technology for rapid prototyping of antennas for solar energy capture without the laborious synthesis typically required for creating artificial photosynthetic light-harvesting architectures.
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