Structure, Dynamics, and Function in the Major Light-Harvesting Complex of Photosystem II

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Structure, Dynamics, and Function in the Major Light-Harvesting Complex of Photosystem II

Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohen ^A ^B ^C and Graham R. Fleming ^A ^B ^D

^A Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
^B Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
^C Current address: Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
^D Corresponding author. Email: grfleming@lbl.gov

Australian Journal of Chemistry 65(6) 583-590 http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/CH12022
Submitted: 18 January 2012 Accepted: 7 March 2012 Published: 3 May 2012





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Abstract

In natural light-harvesting systems, pigment-protein complexes (PPC) convert sunlight to chemical energy with near unity quantum efficiency. PPCs exhibit emergent properties that cannot be simply extrapolated from knowledge of their component parts. In this Perspective, we examine the design principles of PPCs, focussing on the major light-harvesting complex of Photosystem II (LHCII), the most abundant PPC in green plants. Studies using two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy (2DES) provide an incisive tool to probe the electronic, energetic, and spatial landscapes that enable the efficiency observed in photosynthetic light-harvesting. Using the information about energy transfer pathways, quantum effects, and excited state geometry contained within 2D spectra, the excited state properties can be linked back to the molecular structure. This understanding of the structure-function relationships of natural systems constitutes a step towards a blueprint for the construction of artificial light-harvesting devices that can reproduce the efficacy of natural systems.

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