ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
Photosynthesis tunes quantum-mechanical mixing of electronic and vibrational states to steer exciton energy transfer.
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Abstract
Photosynthetic species evolved to protect their light-harvesting apparatus from photoxidative damage driven by intracellular redox conditions or environmental conditions. The Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) pigment-protein complex from green sulfur bacteria exhibits redox-dependent quenching behavior partially due to two internal cysteine residues. Here, we show evidence that a photosynthetic complex exploits the quantum mechanics of vibronic mixing to activate an oxidative photoprotective mechanism. We use two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy (2DES) to capture energy transfer dynamics in wild-type and cysteine-deficient FMO mutant proteins under both reducing and oxidizing conditions. Under reducing conditions, we find equal energy transfer through the exciton 4-1 and 4-2-1 pathways because the exciton 4-1 energy gap is vibronically coupled with a bacteriochlorophyll-
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