Low-temperature energy transfer in FMO trimers from the green photosynthetic bacteriumChlorobium tepidum
โ Scribed by Sergei Savikhin; Walter S. Struve
- Book ID
- 104619035
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 613 KB
- Volume
- 48
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0166-8595
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โฆ Synopsis
The pump-probe kinetics of the slowest spectral equilibrations between inequivalent BChl a Qy states in FMO trimers from Chlorobium tepidum are decelerated by nearly two orders of magnitude when the temperature is lowered from 300 K to 19 K. The pump-probe anisotropy decays are also markedly slower at 19 K than at 300 K. Singlet-singlet annihilation in FMO trimers is negligible at the laser powers used here. However, reduced temperatures greatly accentuate the probability of singlet-triplet annihilation, due to accumulation of metastable BChl a states under high laser repetition rates.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
The Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO)-protein and the FMO-reaction center (RC) core complex from the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum were examined at 6 K by absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy. The absorption spectrum of the RC core complex was obtained by a subtraction method and found to h