Ultrafast Excitation Energy Transfer Dynamics in the LHCII-CP29-CP24 Subdomain of Plant Photosystem II

T.N. Do, H.L. Nguyen, P. Akhtar, K. Zhong, T.L.C. Jansen, J. Knoester, S. Caffarri, P.H. Lambrev, H.-S. Tan

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Abstract

© 2022 American Chemical Society. All rights reserved.We measure the two-dimensional electronic spectra of the LHCII(M)-CP29-CP24 complex in photosystem II (PSII) and provide the first study of the ultrafast excitation energy transfer (EET) processes of an asymmetric and native light-harvesting assembly of the antenna of PSII. With comparisons to LHCII, we observe faster energy equilibrations in the intermediate levels of the LHCII(M)-CP29-CP24 complex at 662 and 670 nm. Notably, the putative "bottleneck" states in LHCII exhibit faster effective dynamics in the LHCII(M)-CP24-CP29 complex, with the average lifetime shortening from 2.5 ps in LHCII to 1.2 ps in the bigger assembly. The observations are supported by high-level structure-based calculations, and the accelerated dynamics can be attributed to the structural change of LHCII(M) in the bigger complex. This study shows that the biological functioning structures of the complexes are important to understand the overall EET dynamics of the PSII supercomplex.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4263-4271
JournalJournal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Volume13
Issue number19
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 May 2022
Externally publishedYes

Funding

This work was supported by grants from the Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund (Tier 1 RG2/19 and Tier 1 RG14/20 to Howe-Siang Tan), the National Research, Development and Innovations Office, Hungary (NKFIH 2018-1.2.1-NKP-2018-000009 to Petar H. Lambrev), and the Eötvös Loránd Research Network (KÖ-36/2021 to Petar H. Lambrev).

FundersFunder number
Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research FundRG14/20, RG2/19
Eötvös Loránd Research NetworkKÖ-36/2021
National Research, Development and Innovation Office
Nemzeti Kutatási Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal2018-1.2.1-NKP-2018-000009

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