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Origin of Low-Lying Red States in the Lhca4 Light-Harvesting Complex of Photosystem I

[Image: see text] The antenna complexes of Photosystem I present low-lying states visible as red-shifted and broadened absorption and fluorescence bands. Among these, Lhca4 has the most evident features of these “red” states, with a fluorescence band shifted by more than 25 nm from typical LHC emiss...

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Autores principales: Sláma, Vladislav, Cupellini, Lorenzo, Mascoli, Vincenzo, Liguori, Nicoletta, Croce, Roberta, Mennucci, Benedetta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Chemical Society 2023
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10518868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37702053
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02091
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author Sláma, Vladislav
Cupellini, Lorenzo
Mascoli, Vincenzo
Liguori, Nicoletta
Croce, Roberta
Mennucci, Benedetta
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Cupellini, Lorenzo
Mascoli, Vincenzo
Liguori, Nicoletta
Croce, Roberta
Mennucci, Benedetta
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description [Image: see text] The antenna complexes of Photosystem I present low-lying states visible as red-shifted and broadened absorption and fluorescence bands. Among these, Lhca4 has the most evident features of these “red” states, with a fluorescence band shifted by more than 25 nm from typical LHC emission. This signal arises from a mixing of exciton and charge-transfer (CT) states within the excitonically coupled a603–a609 chlorophyll (Chl) dimer. Here we combine molecular dynamics, multiscale quantum chemical calculations, and spectral simulations to uncover the molecular mechanism for the formation and tuning of exciton-CT interactions in Lhca4. We show that the coupling between exciton and CT states is extremely sensitive to tiny variations in the Chl dimer arrangement, explaining both the red-shifted bands and the switch between conformations with blue and red emission observed in single-molecule spectroscopy. Finally, we show that mutating the axial ligand of a603 diminishes the exciton–CT coupling, removing any red-state fingerprint.
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spelling pubmed-105188682023-09-26 Origin of Low-Lying Red States in the Lhca4 Light-Harvesting Complex of Photosystem I Sláma, Vladislav Cupellini, Lorenzo Mascoli, Vincenzo Liguori, Nicoletta Croce, Roberta Mennucci, Benedetta J Phys Chem Lett [Image: see text] The antenna complexes of Photosystem I present low-lying states visible as red-shifted and broadened absorption and fluorescence bands. Among these, Lhca4 has the most evident features of these “red” states, with a fluorescence band shifted by more than 25 nm from typical LHC emission. This signal arises from a mixing of exciton and charge-transfer (CT) states within the excitonically coupled a603–a609 chlorophyll (Chl) dimer. Here we combine molecular dynamics, multiscale quantum chemical calculations, and spectral simulations to uncover the molecular mechanism for the formation and tuning of exciton-CT interactions in Lhca4. We show that the coupling between exciton and CT states is extremely sensitive to tiny variations in the Chl dimer arrangement, explaining both the red-shifted bands and the switch between conformations with blue and red emission observed in single-molecule spectroscopy. Finally, we show that mutating the axial ligand of a603 diminishes the exciton–CT coupling, removing any red-state fingerprint. American Chemical Society 2023-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10518868/ /pubmed/37702053 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02091 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Permits the broadest form of re-use including for commercial purposes, provided that author attribution and integrity are maintained (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Mennucci, Benedetta
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10518868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37702053
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02091
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