Abstract
In this work we investigate the origin and characteristics of the circular dichroism (CD) spectrum of rhodopin glucoside and lycopene in the light-harvesting 2 complex of Rhodopseudomonas acidophila and Rhodospirillum molischianum, respectively. We successfully model their absorption and CD spectra based on the high-resolution structures. We assume that these spectra originate from seven interacting transition dipole moments: the first corresponds to the 0-0 transition of the carotenoid, whereas the remaining six represent higher vibronic components of the S
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 3010-3022 |
Journal | Biophysical Journal |
Volume | 87 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2004 |