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Unraveling the role of thermal fluctuations on the exciton structure of the cryptophyte PC612 and PC645 photosynthetic antenna complexes
Protein scaffolds play a crucial role in tuning the light harvesting properties of photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes, influencing pigment-protein and pigment-pigment excitonic interactions. Here, we investigate the influence of thermal dynamic effects on the protein tuning mechanisms of phyco...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10544999/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37790875 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2023.1268278 |
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description | Protein scaffolds play a crucial role in tuning the light harvesting properties of photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes, influencing pigment-protein and pigment-pigment excitonic interactions. Here, we investigate the influence of thermal dynamic effects on the protein tuning mechanisms of phycocyanin PC645 and PC612 antenna complexes of cryptophyte algae, featuring closed or open quaternary structures. We employ a dual molecular dynamics (MD) strategy that combines extensive classical MD simulations with multiple short Born-Oppenheimer quantum/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) simulations to accurately account for both static and dynamic disorder effects. Additionally, we compare the results with an alternative protocol based on multiple QM/MM geometry optimizations of the pigments. Subsequently, we employ polarizable QM/MM calculations using time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) to compute the excited states, and we adopt the full cumulant expansion (FCE) formalism to describe the absorption and circular dichroism spectra. Our findings indicate that thermal effects have only minor impacts on the energy ladder in PC612, despite its remarkable flexibility owing to an open quaternary structure. In striking contrast, thermal effects significantly influence the properties of PC645 due to the absence of a hydrogen bond controlling the twist of ring D in PCB β82 bilins, as well as the larger impact of fluctuations on the excited states of MBV pigments, which possess a higher conjugation length compared to other bilin types. Overall, the dual MD protocol combined with the FCE formalism yields excellent spectral properties for PC612 and PC645, and the resultant excitonic Hamiltonians pave the way for future investigations concerning the implications of open and closed quaternary structures on phycocyanin light harvesting properties. |
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spelling | pubmed-105449992023-10-03 Unraveling the role of thermal fluctuations on the exciton structure of the cryptophyte PC612 and PC645 photosynthetic antenna complexes Ozaydin, Beste Curutchet, Carles Front Mol Biosci Molecular Biosciences Protein scaffolds play a crucial role in tuning the light harvesting properties of photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes, influencing pigment-protein and pigment-pigment excitonic interactions. Here, we investigate the influence of thermal dynamic effects on the protein tuning mechanisms of phycocyanin PC645 and PC612 antenna complexes of cryptophyte algae, featuring closed or open quaternary structures. We employ a dual molecular dynamics (MD) strategy that combines extensive classical MD simulations with multiple short Born-Oppenheimer quantum/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) simulations to accurately account for both static and dynamic disorder effects. Additionally, we compare the results with an alternative protocol based on multiple QM/MM geometry optimizations of the pigments. Subsequently, we employ polarizable QM/MM calculations using time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) to compute the excited states, and we adopt the full cumulant expansion (FCE) formalism to describe the absorption and circular dichroism spectra. Our findings indicate that thermal effects have only minor impacts on the energy ladder in PC612, despite its remarkable flexibility owing to an open quaternary structure. In striking contrast, thermal effects significantly influence the properties of PC645 due to the absence of a hydrogen bond controlling the twist of ring D in PCB β82 bilins, as well as the larger impact of fluctuations on the excited states of MBV pigments, which possess a higher conjugation length compared to other bilin types. Overall, the dual MD protocol combined with the FCE formalism yields excellent spectral properties for PC612 and PC645, and the resultant excitonic Hamiltonians pave the way for future investigations concerning the implications of open and closed quaternary structures on phycocyanin light harvesting properties. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10544999/ /pubmed/37790875 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2023.1268278 Text en Copyright © 2023 Ozaydin and Curutchet. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Molecular Biosciences Ozaydin, Beste Curutchet, Carles Unraveling the role of thermal fluctuations on the exciton structure of the cryptophyte PC612 and PC645 photosynthetic antenna complexes |
title | Unraveling the role of thermal fluctuations on the exciton structure of the cryptophyte PC612 and PC645 photosynthetic antenna complexes |
title_full | Unraveling the role of thermal fluctuations on the exciton structure of the cryptophyte PC612 and PC645 photosynthetic antenna complexes |
title_fullStr | Unraveling the role of thermal fluctuations on the exciton structure of the cryptophyte PC612 and PC645 photosynthetic antenna complexes |
title_full_unstemmed | Unraveling the role of thermal fluctuations on the exciton structure of the cryptophyte PC612 and PC645 photosynthetic antenna complexes |
title_short | Unraveling the role of thermal fluctuations on the exciton structure of the cryptophyte PC612 and PC645 photosynthetic antenna complexes |
title_sort | unraveling the role of thermal fluctuations on the exciton structure of the cryptophyte pc612 and pc645 photosynthetic antenna complexes |
topic | Molecular Biosciences |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10544999/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37790875 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2023.1268278 |
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