Light harvesting by carotenoids incorporated into the B850 light-harvesting complex from rhodobacter sphaeroides r-26: Excited state relaxation, ultrafast triplet formation and energy transfer to bacteriochlorophyll

Authors :: Papagiannakis, Emmanouil
Das, Somes Kumar
Kennis, John T. M
Gall, Andrew
Frank, Harry A
Stokkum, Ivo H. M van
Robert, Bruno
Grondelle, Rienk van
Source :: Journal of Physical Chemistry B. June 12, 2003, Vol. 107 Issue 23, 5642-5649
Publication Year :: 2003
Abstract: Spirilloxanthin and spheroidene are reconstituted into the carotenoidless B850 light-harvesting complex from the Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26.1 mutant in order to obtain new insights in energy transfer, triplt formation and other relaxation phenomena in photosynthetic light harvesting.

Subjects :: Bacteriology -- Research
Energy transfer -- Research
Photosynthesis -- Research
Carotenoids -- Research
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