ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2016
Light-harvesting Complexes (LHCs) Cluster Spontaneously in Membrane Environment Leading to Shortening of Their Excited State Lifetimes.
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- Photocurrent Generation by Plant Light-Harvesting Complexes is Enhanced by Lipid-Linked Chromophores in a Self-Assembled Lipid Membrane.The journal of physical chemistry. B · 2025Article
- Architecture and functional regulation of a plant PSII-LHCII megacomplex.Science advances · 2024Article
- Energetic driving force for LHCII clustering in plant membranes.Science advances · 2023Article
- Self-Quenching Behavior of a Fluorescent Probe Incorporated within Lipid Membranes Explored Using Electrophoresis and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy.The journal of physical chemistry. B · 2023Article
- LHCII - a protein like a 'Swiss Army knife' with many mechanisms and functions.Photosynthetica · 2023Review
- Iron uptake of etioplasts is independent from photosynthesis but applies the reduction-based strategy.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- Classification and Prediction by Pigment Content in Lettuce (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- The Structural and Spectral Features of Light-Harvesting Complex II Proteoliposomes Mimic Those of Native Thylakoid Membranes.The journal of physical chemistry letters · 2022Article
- Oxidative modification of LHC II associated with photosystem II and PS I-LHC I-LHC II membranes.Photosynthesis research · 2022Article
- The role of light-harvesting complex I in excitation energy transfer from LHCII to photosystem I in Arabidopsis.Plant physiology · 2022Article
- Protein dynamics and lipid affinity of monomeric, zeaxanthin-binding LHCII in thylakoid membranes.Biophysical journal · 2022Article
- Proteoliposomes for Studying Lipid-protein Interactions in MembranesBio-protocol · 2021Article
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Abstract
The light reactions of photosynthesis, which include light-harvesting and charge separation, take place in the amphiphilic environment of the thylakoid membrane. The light-harvesting complex II (LHCII) is the main responsible for light absorption in plants and green algae and is involved in photoprotective mechanisms that regulate the amount of excited states in the membrane. The dual function of LHCII has been extensively studied in detergent micelles, but recent results have indicated that the properties of this complex differ in a lipid environment. In this work we checked these suggestions by studying LHCII in liposomes. By combining bulk and single molecule measurements, we monitored the fluorescence characteristics of liposomes containing single complexes up to densely packed proteoliposomes. We show that the natural lipid environment per se does not alter the properties of LHCII, which for single complexes remain very similar to that in detergent. However, we show that LHCII has the strong tendency to cluster in the membrane and that protein interactions and the extent of crowding modulate the lifetimes of the excited state in the membrane. Finally, the presence of LHCII monomers at low concentrations of complexes per liposome is discussed.
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