Marcel Schmidt am Busch, Frank Müh, M. E. Madjet, Thomas Renger,
"The Eighth Bacteriochlorophyll Completes the Excitation Energy Funnel in the FMO Protein"
, in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 2, Seite(n) 93-98, 1-2011, ISSN: 1948-7185
Original Titel:
The Eighth Bacteriochlorophyll Completes the Excitation Energy Funnel in the FMO Protein
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
The Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) light-harvesting protein connects the outer antenna system (chlorosome/baseplate) with the reaction center complex in green sulfur bacteria. Since its first structure determination in the mid-70s, this pigment-protein complex has become an important model system to study excitation energy transfer. Recently, an additional bacteriochlorophyll a(the eighth) pigment was discovered in each subunit of this homotrimer. Our structure-based calculations of the optical properties of the FMO protein demonstrate that the eighth pigment is the linker to the baseplate, confirming recent suggestions from crystallographic studies.
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