Abstract
Photosystem I (PSI) is a multi-pigment-protein complex that co-operates with photosystem II (PSII) and uses light energy to transfer electrons from plastocyanin or cytochrome to ferredoxin and eventually to NADP+. Cyanobacterial BE mutant cells that lack PSII and light-harvesting phycobilisomes, provided us with the possibility to study the picosecond fluorescence kinetics of PSI in vivo and the results were analyzed using global and target analysis. The obtained components (5.4 ± 0.14 ps spectral equilibration and 27.8 ± 0.09 ps excitation trapping) are very similar to those found before for isolated PSI. The rate of energy transfer from red-shifted chlorophyll a (Chl a) molecules to bulk Chls a occurs with a rate constant of (7.4–10.4 ps)−1 whereas the reverse process occurs with a rate constant of (19.3–29.8 ps)−1 according to the target analysis, whereas trapping from bulk Chls a occurs with rate (16.8–25.0 ps)−1.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China |
Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH |
Pages | 465-468 |
Number of pages | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Publication series
Name | Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China |
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ISSN (Print) | 1995-6819 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1995-6827 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We would like to thank Rob Koehorst and Arie van Hoek for initial help with the streak-camera measurements, Cor Wolfs and Sashka Krumova for initial help with the cell growth and Sergey Laptenok, Joris Snellenburg and Ivo van Stokkum for seminal contributions to the data analysis. This work was supported by HARVEST Marie Curie Research Training Network (PITN-GA-2009-238017) and the European Union Sixth Framework Programme grant MRTN-CT-2005-019481 to HvA and VVC.
Publisher Copyright:
© Zhejiang University Press, Hangzhou and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013.
Funding
We would like to thank Rob Koehorst and Arie van Hoek for initial help with the streak-camera measurements, Cor Wolfs and Sashka Krumova for initial help with the cell growth and Sergey Laptenok, Joris Snellenburg and Ivo van Stokkum for seminal contributions to the data analysis. This work was supported by HARVEST Marie Curie Research Training Network (PITN-GA-2009-238017) and the European Union Sixth Framework Programme grant MRTN-CT-2005-019481 to HvA and VVC.
Keywords
- BE mutant
- Cyanobacteria
- Streak camera
- Target analysis