Light harvesting in phototrophic bacteria: structure and function

RG Saer, RE Blankenship - Biochemical Journal, 2017 - portlandpress.com
This review serves as an introduction to the variety of light-harvesting (LH) structures present
in phototrophic prokaryotes. It provides an overview of the LH complexes of purple bacteria …

Ultrafast laser spectroscopy uncovers mechanisms of light energy conversion in photosynthesis and sustainable energy materials

D Zigmantas, T Polívka, P Persson… - Chemical Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The invention of the laser in 1960 gave us the ruby laser, which generally produced chaotic
pulses of light. Six years later, in 1966, a concept called passive mode-locking applied to …

How nature designs light-harvesting antenna systems: design principles and functional realization in chlorophototrophic prokaryotes

DA Bryant, DP Canniffe - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Chlorophyll-based phototrophs, or chlorophototrophs, convert light energy into stored
chemical potential energy using two types of photochemical reaction center (RC), denoted …

Cryo-EM structure of the RC-LH core complex from an early branching photosynthetic prokaryote

Y **n, Y Shi, T Niu, Q Wang, W Niu, X Huang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Photosynthetic prokaryotes evolved diverse light-harvesting (LH) antennas to absorb
sunlight and transfer energy to reaction centers (RC). The filamentous anoxygenic …

Augmenting light coverage for photosynthesis through YFP-enhanced charge separation at the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction centre

KJ Grayson, KM Faries, X Huang, P Qian… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Photosynthesis uses a limited range of the solar spectrum, so enhancing spectral coverage
could improve the efficiency of light capture. Here, we show that a hybrid reaction centre …

Biosynthesis of chlorophylls and bacteriochlorophylls in green bacteria

JL Thweatt, DP Canniffe, DA Bryant - Advances in botanical research, 2019 - Elsevier
Green bacteria include chlorophototrophic members of the phyla Chlorobi, Chloroflexi, and
Acidobacteria and are defined by their use of chlorosomes for light-harvesting. Despite their …

Subcellular pigment distribution is altered under far-red light acclimation in cyanobacteria that contain chlorophyll f

ELW Majumder, BM Wolf, H Liu, RH Berg… - Photosynthesis …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Far-Red Light (FRL) acclimation is a process that has been observed in
cyanobacteria and algae that can grow solely on light above 700 nm. The acclimation to …

The C-terminus of PufX plays a key role in dimerisation and assembly of the reaction center light-harvesting 1 complex from Rhodobacter sphaeroides

P Qian, EC Martin, IW Ng, CN Hunter - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2017 - Elsevier
In bacterial photosynthesis reaction center-light-harvesting 1 (RC-LH1) complexes trap
absorbed solar energy by generating a charge separated state. Subsequent electron and …

Native FMO-reaction center supercomplex in green sulfur bacteria: an electron microscopy study

D Bína, Z Gardian, F Vácha, R Litvín - Photosynthesis research, 2016 - Springer
Chlorobaculum tepidum is a representative of green sulfur bacteria, a group of anoxygenic
photoautotrophs that employ chlorosomes as the main light-harvesting structures …

Preparation of Photo-Bioelectrochemical Cells With the RC-LH Complex From Roseiflexus castenholzii

J Du, J **n, M Liu, X Zhang, H He, J Wu… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Roseiflexus castenholzii is an ancient green non-sulfur bacteria that absorbs the solar
energy through bacteriochlorophylls (BChls) bound in the only light harvesting (LH) …