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- Title
Solid-state NMR applied to photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes.
- Authors
Pandit, Anjali; Groot, Huub
- Abstract
This short review describes how solid-state NMR has provided a mechanistic and electronic picture of pigment-protein and pigment-pigment interactions in photosynthetic antenna complexes. NMR results on purple bacterial antenna complexes show how the packing of the protein and the pigments inside the light-harvesting oligomers induces mutual conformational stress. The protein scaffold produces deformation and electrostatic polarization of the BChl macrocycles and leads to a partial electronic charge transfer between the BChls and their coordinating histidines, which can tune the light-harvesting function. In chlorosome antennae assemblies, the NMR template structure reveals how the chromophores can direct their self-assembly into higher macrostructures which, in turn, tune the light-harvesting properties of the individual molecules by controlling their disorder, structural deformation, and electronic polarization without the need for a protein scaffold. These results pave the way for addressing the next challenge, which is to resolve the functional conformational dynamics of the lhc antennae of oxygenic species that allows them to switch between light-emitting and light-energy dissipating states.
- Subjects
ELECTRONIC structure; NUCLEAR magnetic resonance; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; MACROCYCLIC compounds; PLANT chromosomes
- Publication
Photosynthesis Research, 2012, Vol 111, Issue 1/2, p219
- ISSN
0166-8595
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11120-011-9674-9