ArticleNature communications2017
Mapping the ultrafast flow of harvested solar energy in living photosynthetic cells.
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- Structured Excitation Energy Transfer: Tracking Exciton Diffusion below Sunlight Intensity.ACS photonics · 2024Article
- Excitation energy transfer in proteoliposomes reconstituted with LH2 and RC-LH1 complexes from Rhodobacter sphaeroides.Bioscience reports · 2024Article
- Elucidating interprotein energy transfer dynamics within the antenna network from purple bacteria.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- The structure and assembly of reaction centre-light-harvesting 1 complexes in photosynthetic bacteria.Bioscience reports · 2023Article
- Formally Exact Simulations of Mesoscale Exciton Diffusion in a Light-Harvesting 2 Antenna Nanoarray.The journal of physical chemistry letters · 2023Article
- Cryo-EM structures of light-harvesting 2 complexes fromProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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Abstract
Photosynthesis transfers energy efficiently through a series of antenna complexes to the reaction center where charge separation occurs. Energy transfer in vivo is primarily monitored by measuring fluorescence signals from the small fraction of excitations that fail to result in charge separation. Here, we use two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy to follow the entire energy transfer process in a thriving culture of the purple bacteria, Rhodobacter sphaeroides. By removing contributions from scattered light, we extract the dynamics of energy transfer through the dense network of antenna complexes and into the reaction center. Simulations demonstrate that these dynamics constrain the membrane organization into small pools of core antenna complexes that rapidly trap energy absorbed by surrounding peripheral antenna complexes. The rapid trapping and limited back transfer of these excitations lead to transfer efficiencies of 83% and a small functional light-harvesting unit.During photosynthesis, energy is transferred from photosynthetic antenna to reaction centers via ultrafast energy transfer. Here the authors track energy transfer in photosynthetic bacteria using two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy and show that these transfer dynamics constrain antenna complex organization.
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