Principles of light harvesting from single photosynthetic complexes

Photosynthetic systems harness sunlight to power most life on Earth. In the initial steps of photosynthetic light harvesting, absorbed energy is converted ...

Photosynthetic systems harness sunlight to power most life on Earth. In the initial steps of photosynthetic light harvesting, ...

Principles of light harvesting from single photosynthetic complexes

In the initial steps of photosynthetic light harvesting, absorbed energy is converted to chemical energy with near-unity quantum efficiency.

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Single-molecule acceptor rise time (smART) FRET for nanoscale distance sensitivity · Discovery of Multiple Light-Harvesting States of the Photosynthetic Protein ...

Design principles of natural light-harvesting as revealed by single ...

These natural light-harvesting complexes consist of proteins that strongly bind a high density of chromophores to capture solar photons and rapidly transfer the ...

Light-harvesting systems - ScienceDirect.com

Therefore, almost all phototrophic organisms have a light-harvesting (LH) (antenna) system or systems consisting of one or more LH complexes to capture (absorb) ...

Design principles of photosynthetic light-harvesting - RSC Publishing

These emergent properties of photosynthesis appear both within individual pigment– protein complexes and in how these complexes integrate to produce a ...

Design Principles Confer Optimal Light Harvesting in Plants

Their design-based model applied to photosynthesis revealed an efficient cellular system that is able to extract and input light of two ...

Probing the design principles of photosynthetic systems through ...

This function is performed by photosynthetic pigment-protein light-harvesting complexes (LHCs), cyanobacterial phycobilisomes (PBS) and plant ...

[PDF] Design principles of photosynthetic light-harvesting.

The distinctive design principles through which photosynthetic light-harvesting functions are discussed, including how excess energy is quenched to prevent ...

Dynamics of photosynthetic light harvesting systems interacting with ...

Finally, we present a numerical simulation for the LHCII monomer (14-mer) system under single photon excitation that illustrates the use of the double hierarchy ...

Light harvesting in oxygenic photosynthesis: Structural biology ...

After light is absorbed by a pigment in one of these complexes, excitation energy transfer (EET) to a nearby pigment occurs. EET proceeds until the excitation ...

Light Absorption and Energy Transfer in the Antenna Complexes of ...

Through evolution, genetic drift, and speciation, photosynthetic organisms have discovered many solutions for light harvesting. In this review, ...

Evolution under the sun: optimizing light harvesting in photosynthesis

Charged with photon energy the pigment passes it to another pigment and eventually to the one that can be oxidized, donating an electron to the sequence of ...

Structure and function of bacterial light-harvesting complexes

Most of the pigment molecules, which give plants and photosynthetic bacteria their characteristic colours, are bound by the light-harvesting complexes (also ...

Single-photon absorption by single photosynthetic light-harvesting ...

We apply the approach to simulation of absorption of single-photon coherent states by pigment–protein complexes containing between one and seven chromophores, ...

Ultrafast Dynamics of Photosynthetic Light Harvesting: Strategies for ...

Photosynthetic light harvesting exhibits near-unity quantum efficiency. The high efficiency is achieved through a series of energy and ...

Rapid regulation of photosynthetic light harvesting in the absence of ...

A photoprotective molecular process called non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) is the fastest response carried out in the thylakoid membranes to harmlessly ...

First-Principles Models for Biological Light-Harvesting

First-Principles Models for Biological Light-Harvesting: Phycobiliprotein Complexes from Cryptophyte Algae. Click to copy article linkArticle ...

From isolated light-harvesting complexes to the thylakoid membrane

In this review we provide an overview of single-molecule fluorescence measurements on plant light-harvesting complexes (LHCs) of varying sizes ...