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Microbiology Spectrum, 2023 Our planet is sustained by sunlight, the primary energy source made accessible to all life forms by photoautotrophs. Photoautotrophs are equipped with light-harvesting complexes (LHCs) that enable efficient capture of solar energy, particularly when ...
Annesha Sengupta +4 more
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From isolated light-harvesting complexes to the thylakoid membrane: a single-molecule perspective
Nanophotonics, 2018 The conversion of solar radiation to chemical energy in plants and green algae takes place in the thylakoid membrane. This amphiphilic environment hosts a complex arrangement of light-harvesting pigment-protein complexes that absorb light and transfer ...
Gruber J. Michael +3 more
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Biophysics and Physicobiology, 2022 Photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes (LHCs) play a crucial role in concentrating the photon energy from the sun that otherwise excites a typical pigment molecule, such as chlorophyll-a, only several times a second.
Toru Kondo, Yutaka Shibata
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The Scientific World Journal, 2013 We investigate metal-enhanced fluorescence of peridinin-chlorophyll protein coupled to silver nanowires using optical microscopy combined with spectrally and time-resolved fluorescence techniques.
Dorota Kowalska +6 more
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Bio-inspired building blocks for all-organic metamaterials from visible to near-infrared
Nanophotonics, 2023 Light-harvesting complexes in natural photosynthetic systems, such as those in purple bacteria, consist of photo-reactive chromophores embedded in densely packed “antenna” systems organized in well-defined nanostructures.
Holder Samuel Thomas +5 more
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Carotenoid-dependent singlet oxygen photogeneration in light-harvesting complex 2 of Ectothiorhodospira haloalkaliphila leads to the formation of organic hydroperoxides and damage to both pigments and protein matrix [PDF]
PeerJEarlier, it was suggested that carotenoids in light-harvesting complexes 2 (LH2) can generate singlet oxygen, further oxidizing bacteriochlorophyll to 3-acetyl-chlorophyll.
Denis Yanykin +3 more
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Plants, 2023 Cyanobacteria were among the oldest organisms to undertake oxygenic photosynthesis and have an essential impact on the atmosphere and carbon/nitrogen cycles on the planet.
Fang Huang +5 more
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Light quality, oxygenic photosynthesis and more
Photosynthetica, 2022 Oxygenic photosynthesis takes place in thylakoid membranes (TM) of cyanobacteria, algae, and higher plants. It begins with light absorption by pigments in large (modular) assemblies of pigment-binding proteins, which then transfer excitation energy to ...
D. LAZAR +3 more
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Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2014 The precise nature of interactions between the chloropnyll-protein complexes related to photosystem I or photosystem II and the acyl lipids in the thylakoid membranes is not yet fully elucidated.
Zbigniew Krupa
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The structure of membrane crystals of the light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b protein complex. [PDF]
The Journal of cell biology, 1983 Membrane crystals of the light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b protein complex from pea chloroplasts were investigated using electron microscopy and image analysis. The membrane crystals formed upon precipitation of the detergent-solubilized complex with mono- and divalent cations in the presence of small amounts of Triton X-100.
Kühlbrandt, W. ; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2013-4810 +2 more
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