Fine control of chlorophyll-carotenoid interactions defines the functionality of light-harvesting proteins in plants

Balevičius, Vytautas; Fox, Kieran F.; Bricker, William P.; Jurinovich, Sandro; Prandi, Ingrid G.; Mennucci, Benedetta; Duffy, Christopher D.  P.

doi:10.1038/s41598-017-13720-6

Title: Fine control of chlorophyll-carotenoid interactions defines the functionality of light-harvesting proteins in plants

Journal Article · Tue Oct 24 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-13720-6· OSTI ID:1500050

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Queen Mary Univ. of London (United Kingdom)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Univ. of Pisa (Italy)
Federal Univ. of Lavras (Brazil); Military Inst. of Engineering, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Photosynthetic antenna proteins can be thought of as “programmed solvents”, which bind pigments at specific mutual orientations, thus tuning the overall energetic landscape and ensuring highly efficient light-harvesting. While positioning of chlorophyll cofactors is well understood and rationalized by the principle of an “energy funnel”, the carotenoids still pose many open questions. Particularly, their short excited state lifetime (<25 ps) renders them potential energy sinks able to compete with the reaction centers and drastically undermine light-harvesting efficiency. Exploration of the orientational phase-space revealed that the placement of central carotenoids minimizes their interaction with the nearest chlorophylls in the plant antenna complexes LHCII, CP26, CP29 and LHCI. At the same time we show that this interaction is highly sensitive to structural perturbations, which has a profound effect on the overall lifetime of the complex. This links the protein dynamics to the light-harvesting regulation in plants by the carotenoids.

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Research Organization:: Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO (United States); Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0001035

OSTI ID:: 1500050

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Vol. 7, Issue 1; ISSN 2045-2322

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