PRESSURE EFFECTS ON SPECTRA OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC LIGHT-HARVESTING PIGMENT-PROTEIN COMPLEXES

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作者
FREIBERG, A
ELLERVEE, A
KUKK, P
LAISAAR, A
TARS, M
TIMPMANN, K
机构
[1] Institute of Physics, Estonian Academy of Sciences, 2400 Tartu
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10.1016/0009-2614(93)85447-V
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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
The influence of high (up to 9 kbar) hydrostatic pressure on the absorption and fluorescence emission spectra of photosynthetic light-harvesting pigment-protein complexes isolated from purple bacteria Rhodospirillum rubrum has been studied at room temperature and at 77 K. Under pressure at room temperature all spectral bands exhibit a red-shift at a rate of between 30 and 120 cm-1/kbar for different bands. From these pressure shifts the compressibility of the protein matrix can be estimated. The compressibility is remarkably different for the protein surrounding bacteriochlorophyll a molecules (kappa greater-than-or-equal-to 25 +/- 5 Mbar-1) than for the one surrounding spirilloxanthin molecules (kappa = 10 +/- 2 Mbar-1). This indicates that the elastic properties of a protein are locally specific.
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