Stark hole-burning studies of three photosynthetic complexes

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作者
Rätsep, M
Wu, HM
Hayes, JM
Blankenship, RE
Cogdell, RJ
Small, GJ [1 ]
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[1] Iowa State Univ, US DOE, Ames Lab, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[2] Iowa State Univ, Dept Chem, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[3] Arizona State Univ, Ctr Study Early Events Photosynth, Dept Chem & Biochem, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA
[4] Univ Glasgow, Inst Biomed & Life Sci, Div Biochem & Mol Biol, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B | 1998年 / 102卷 / 20期
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10.1021/jp980421r
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O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
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070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Stark hole-burning spectroscopy at 1.8 K was used to determine the dipole moment changes f Delta mu (f, the local field correction factor) for the B800 absorption band of the light harvesting 2 (LH2) complex of Rhodobacter sphaeroides, Rhodopseudomonas acidophila (strain 10050), and Rhodospirillum molischianum. Hole-burning values of f Delta mu for the lowest energy exciton level (B870) associated with LH2's B850 band have recently been reported (Ratsep et al. Spectrochim. Acta, in press). Values for the lowest energy exciton level (B896) associated with the B875 band of the LH1 complex of Rb. sphaeroides (wild-type chromatophores and an LH1-only mutant) and the 825 nm band of the bacteriochlorophyll a (FMO) antenna complex of Chlorobium tepidum are also reported. For each band, f Delta mu was determined for burn laser polarization parallel and perpendicular to the Stark field E-S and several burn frequencies. The dependencies on laser polarization and burn frequency are typically quite weak. Importantly, f Delta mu values for the above bands are small, falling in the range similar to 0.5-1.2 D, with the lowest and highest values associated with the 825 nm band of the FMO complex and B800 band of the LH2 complex, respectively. For the B896 band of the LH1 complex, f Delta mu approximate to 0.8 D. Such small values are consistent with the very weak linear electron-phonon coupling of antenna protein complexes as determined by hole-burning spectroscopy. Overall, the values for f Delta mu from classical Stark modulation (CSM) studies (Gottfried et al. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1991, 1059, 63; Beekman et al. J. Phys. Chem. B 1997, 101, 7293) are larger, in the cases of B850 and B875, by a factor of 3-4. (In CSM spectroscopy, one analyzes the response of the entire absorption band to the external field.) Discussion of the discrepancies between the two Stark techniques is given. It appears that difficulties inherent to the analysis procedure of CSM spectroscopy can lead to unreliable values for dipole moment and polarizability changes associated with absorption bands of photosynthetic complexes, especially when several excitonic levels contribute to the band, e.g., B850 and B875. An explanation for the small. hole-burning values of f Delta mu for the B870 and B896 levels associated with C-n cyclic arrays of strongly coupled BChl a dimers is given based on structural, symmetry, and energy disorder considerations. A key point is that, in the absence of energy disorder, the component of Delta mu(j) (j labeling the exciton level) perpendicular to the C-n axis is zero. Energy disorder, which destroys the C-n symmetry and leads to localization effects results in nonzero values which may depend on j when the protein-induced contribution to Delta mu(j) is taken into account.
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