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Light-Harvesting in Photosystem II

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Light-Harvesting Antennas in Photosynthesis

Part of the book series: Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration ((AIPH,volume 13))

Summary

Photosystem II (PS II) of green plants represents one of the most complex systems in plant biology. It consists of at least 29 different types of proteins, binds a huge number of pigments (chlorophylls and carotenoids), produces the oxygen that we breathe and plays essential roles in many regulation mechanisms of the photosynthesis. In this chapter, we discuss the mechanisms of light-harvesting and trapping of excitation energy in green plant PS II. We describe structural models of the pigment-binding proteins of PS II and their supramolecular organization, and consider the energy transfer processes between pigments in individual complexes, with an emphasis on the major trimeric light-harvesting complex II (LHCII) of PS II, which is by far the best studied protein of the PS II antenna. Energy transfer between different complexes also is addressed, as well as studies on complete PS II complexes. In contrast to many previous studies, we conclude that the relatively long excited-state lifetime in PS II should be explained by a combination of three different factors: 1) the relatively slow energy transfer in the outer antenna, 2) the small number of chlorophylls that connect the antenna to the reaction center, and 3) the relatively slow charge separation in the reaction center. The process of excitation trapping can therefore not be classified as being purely diffusion-, transfer-to-the-trap-, or trap-limited.

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Abbreviations

ADMR:

absorbance-detected mangnetic resonance

β-Car:

β-carotence

β-DM:

dodecyl-β

D:

maltoside

C:

monomeric PS II core complex

CD:

circular dichroism

Chl:

chlorlphyll

DCCD:

N,N’ -dicyclohexylcarbodiimide

ELIP:

early light-indyced protein

IC:

linear dichroism

LHCII:

light-harvesting complex II

Lut:

lutein

M:

moderately bound trimeric LHCII

Neo:

Neoxanthin

3PEPS:

three-pulse photon echo peak shift

Ph:

pheophytin

PS II:

Photosystem II

RC:

reaction center

S:

strongly bound trimeric LHCII

S-S:

singlet-singlet

S-T:

singlet-triplet

T-S:

tirple-minus-singlet

Vio:

violaxanthin

Zea:

zeaxanthin

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