Triplet Energy Transfer between the Primary Donor and Carotenoids in Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26.1 Reaction Centers Incorporated with Spheroidene Analogs Having Different Extents of -π-Electron Conjugation

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 97-104

  Farhoosh, Roya ^a   Chynwat, Veeradej ^b   Gebhard, Ronald ^c   Lugtenburg, Johan ^c   Frank, Harry A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; SPHEROIDENE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENERGY TRANSFER; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

CAROTENOIDS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 0031181331     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1997.tb03144.x     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Frank, H. A. and R. J. Cogdell (1993) Photochemistry and function of carotenoids in photosynthesis. In Carotenoids in Photosynthesis (Edited by A. Young and G. Britton), Ch. 8, pp. 252-326. Chapman & Hall, London.
2. Krinsky, N. I. (1968) The protective function of carotenoid pigments. In Photophysiology, Vol. III (Edited by A. C. Giese), pp. 123-195. Academic Press, New York.
3. Griffiths, M., W. R. Sistrom, G. Cohen-Bazire and R. Y. Stanier (1955) Functions of carotenoids in photosynthesis. Nature (Lond.) 176, 1211-1214.
4. Parson, W. W. and T. G. Monger (1976) Interrelationships among excited states in bacterial reaction centers. Brookhaven. Symp. Biol. 28, 195-212.
5. Schenck, C. C., P. Mathis and M. Lutz (1984) Triplet formation and triplet decay in reaction centers from the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. Photochem. Photobiol. 39, 407-417.
6. Frank, H. A. and C. A. Violette (1989) Monomeric bacteriochlorophyll is required for triplet energy transfer between the primary donor and the carotenoid in photosynthetic bacterial reaction centers. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 976, 222-232.
7. Frank, H. A., V. Chynwat, G. Hartwich, M. Meyer, I. Katheder and H. Scheer (1993) Carotenoid triplet state formation in Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26.1 reaction centers exchanged with modified-bacteriochlorophyll pigments and reconstituted with spheroidene. Photosynth. Res. 37, 193-203.
8. Frank, H. A., J. Machnicki and R. Friesner (1983) Energy transfer between the primary donor bacteriochlorophyll and carotenoids in Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. Photochem. Photobiol. 38, 451-456.
9. Lous, E. K. and A. J. Hoff (1989) Isotropic and linear dichroic triplet-minus-singlet absorbance difference spectra of two carotenoid-containing bacterial photosynthetic reaction centers in the temperature range 10-288 K. An analysis of bacteriochlorophyll-carotenoid triplet transfer. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 974, 88-103.
10. Kolaczkowski, S. V. (1989) On the mechanism of triplet energy transfer from the primary donor to spheroidene in photosynthetic reaction centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1. Ph.D. Thesis, Brown University.
11. Takiff, L. and S. G. Boxer (1988) Phosphorescence from the primary electron donor in Rhodobacter sphaeroides and Rhodopseudomonas viridis reaction centers. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 932, 325-334.
12. Takiff, L. and S. G. Boxer (1988) Phosphorescence spectra of bacteriochlorophylls. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 110, 4425-4426.
13. 2. Acc. Chem. Res. 1, 104-110.
14. Ermler, U., G. Fritzsch, S. K. Buchanan and H. Michel (1994) Structure of the photosynthetic reaction centre from Rb. sphaeroides at 2.65 Å resolution: cofactors and protein-cofactor interactions. Structure 2, 925-936.
15. Chang, C. H., D. Tiede, J. Tang, U. Smith, J. Norris and M. Schiffer (1986) Structure of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides R-26 reaction center. FEBS Lett. 205, 82-86.
16. Yeates, T. O., H. Komiya, A. Chirino, D. C. Rees, J. P. Allen and G. Feher (1988) Structure of the reaction center from Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides R-26 and 2.4.1: protein-cofactor (bacteriochlorophyll, bacteriopheophytin, and carotenoid) interactions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 85, 7993-7997.
17. Schenck, C. C.. B. Diner, P. Mathis and K. Satoh (1982) Flash-induced carotenoid radical cation formation in photosystem II. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 680, 216-227.
18. Gust, D., T. A. Moore and A. L. Moore (1993) Molecular mimicry of photosynthetic energy and electron transfer. Acc. Chem. Res. 26, 198-205.
19. Land, E. J., A. Sykes and T. G. Truscott (1971) The in vitro photochemistry of biological molecules-II. The triplet states of beta-carotene and lycopene excited by pulse radiolysis. Photochem. Photobiol. 13, 311-320.
20. Bensasson, R., E. J. Land and B. Maudinas (1976) Triplet states of carotenoids from photosynthetic bacteria studied by nanosecond ultraviolet and electron pulse irradiation. Photochem. Photobiol. 23, 189-193.
21. Hudson, B. S., B. E. Kohler and K. Schulten (1982) Linear polyene electronic structure and potential surfaces. In Excited States, Vol. 6 (Edited by E. C. Lim), pp. 22-95. Academic Press, New York.
22. Cohen-Bazire, G., W. R. Sistrom and R. Y. Stanier (1957) Kinetic studies of pigment synthesis by non-sulfur purple bacteria. J. Cell. Comp. Physiol. 49, 25-68.
23. Gebhard, R., J. T. M. van Dijk, E. van Ouwerkerk, M. V. T. J. Boza and J. Lugtenburg (1991) Synthesis and spectroscopy of chemically modified spheroidenes. Recl. Trav. Chim. Pays-Bas 110, 459-469.
24. 13C MAS NMR evidence for a 15,15′-Z configuration of the spheroidene chromophore in the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction center. Pure Appl. Chem. 63, 115-122.
25. Connors, R. E., D. S. Burns, R. Farhoosh and H. A. Frank (1993) Computational studies of the molecular structure and electronic spectroscopy of carotenoids. J. Phys. Chem. 97, 9351-9355.
26. Cogdell, R. J., W. W. Parson and M. A. Kerr (1976) The type, amount, location, and energy transfer properties of the carotenoid in reaction centers from Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 430, 83-93.
27. Cogdell, R. J., S. Celis, H. Celis and A. R. Crofts (1977) Reaction centre carotenoid hand shifts. FEBS. Lett. 80, 190-193.
28. Agalidis, I., M. Lutz and F. Reiss-Husson (1980) Binding of carotenoids on reaction centers from Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides R-26. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 589, 264-274.
29. Boucher, F., M. van der Rest and G. Gingras (1977) Structure and function of carotenoids in the photoreaction center from Rhodospirillum rubrum. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 461, 339-357.
30. Monger, T. G., R. J. Cogdell and W. W. Parson (1976) Triplet states of bacteriochlorophyll and carotenoids in chromatophores of photosynthetic bacteria. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 449, 136-153.
31. Farhoosh, R., V. Chynwat, R. Gebhard, J. Lugtenburg and H. A. Frank (1994) Triplet energy transfer between bacteriochlorophyll and carotenoids in B850 light-harvesting complexes of Rhodobacler sphaeroides R-26.1. Photosynth. Res. 42, 157-166.
32. Chadwick, B. W. and H. A. Frank (1986) Electron-spin resonance studies of carotenoids incorporated into reaction centers of Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26.1. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 851, 257-266.
33. Mathis, P. and J. Kleo (1973) The triplet state of β-carotene and of analog polyenes of different lengths. Photochem. Photobiol. 18, 343-346.
34. DeCoster, B., R. L. Christensen, R. Gebhard, J. Lugtenburg, K. Farhoosh and H. A. Frank (1992) Low lying electronic states of carotenoids. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1102, 107-114.
35. 1 excited states of carotenoids. Chem. Phys. Lett. 207, 88-92.