Publication Date:
2008-05-10
Description:
Energy-dependent quenching of excess absorbed light energy (qE) is a vital mechanism for regulating photosynthetic light harvesting in higher plants. All of the physiological characteristics of qE have been positively correlated with charge transfer between coupled chlorophyll and zeaxanthin molecules in the light-harvesting antenna of photosystem II (PSII). We found evidence for charge-transfer quenching in all three of the individual minor antenna complexes of PSII (CP29, CP26, and CP24), and we conclude that charge-transfer quenching in CP29 involves a delocalized state of an excitonically coupled chlorophyll dimer. We propose that reversible conformational changes in CP29 can "tune" the electronic coupling between the chlorophylls in this dimer, thereby modulating the energy of the chlorophyll-zeaxanthin charge-transfer state and switching on and off the charge-transfer quenching during qE.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ahn, Tae Kyu -- Avenson, Thomas J -- Ballottari, Matteo -- Cheng, Yuan-Chung -- Niyogi, Krishna K -- Bassi, Roberto -- Fleming, Graham R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2008 May 9;320(5877):794-7. doi: 10.1126/science.1154800.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18467588" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Arabidopsis Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*physiology
;
Chlorophyll/physiology
;
Chlorophyll Binding Proteins
;
Chloroplast Proteins
;
Electron Transport
;
Electrophysiology
;
Light
;
Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes/chemistry/genetics/*physiology
;
Lutein/metabolism
;
Models, Molecular
;
Photosystem II Protein Complex/chemistry/genetics/*physiology
;
Protein Conformation
;
Recombinant Proteins/metabolism
;
Ribonucleoproteins
;
Structure-Activity Relationship
;
Xanthophylls/metabolism
;
Zeaxanthins
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
,
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Computer Science
,
Medicine
,
Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics
Permalink