Identifying the lowest electronic states of the chlorophylls in the CP47 core antenna protein of photosystem II

F.L. de Weerd, M.A. Palacios, E. Andrizhiyevskaya, J.P. Dekker, R. van Grondelle

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Abstract

CP47 is a pigment-protein complex in the core of photosystem II that tranfers excitation energy to the reaction center. Here we report on a spectroscopic investigation of the isolated CP47 complex. By deconvoluting the 77 K absorption and linear dichroism, red-most states at 683 and 690 nm have been identified with oscillator strengths corresponding to ∼3 and ∼1 chlorophyll, respectively. Both states contribute to the 4 K emission, and the Stark spectrum shows that they have a large value for the difference polarizability between their ground and excited states. From site-selective polarized triplet-minus-singlet spectra, an excitonic origin for the 683 nm state was found. The red shift of the 690 nm state is most probably due to strong hydrogen bonding to a protein ligand, as follows from the position of the stretch frequency of the chlorophyll 13
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)15224-15233
JournalBiochemistry
Volume41
Issue number51
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2002

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Identifying the lowest electronic states of the chlorophylls in the CP47 core antenna protein of photosystem II

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