Photosystem II (PSII) is a membrane‐spanning, multi‐subunit pigment–protein complex
responsible for the oxidation of water and the reduction of plastoquinone in oxygenic …

In photosynthesis, light is harvested and its energy is used to produce the various biological
components that support nearly all life on earth. It is oxygenic photosynthesis that led to the …

The experimentally obtained time-resolved fluorescence spectra of photosystem II (PS II)
core complexes, purified from a thermophilic cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus …

Biochemical characterization of intermediates involved in the assembly of the oxygen-
evolving Photosystem II (PSII) complex is hampered by their low abundance in the …

Persistent spectral hole burning at 4.5 K has been used to investigate the excitonic energy
level structure and the excited state dynamics of the recombinant class-IIa water-soluble …

Natural photosynthesis relies on light harvesting and excitation energy transfer by
specialized pigment–protein complexes. Their structure and the electronic properties of the …

The identification of low-energy chlorophyll pigments in photosystem II (PSII) is critical to our
understanding of the kinetics and mechanism of this important enzyme. We report parallel …

Photosynthetic pigment–protein complexes control local chlorophyll (Chl) transition
frequencies through a variety of electrostatic and steric forces. Site-directed mutations can …

Light harvesting by antenna systems is the initial step in a series of electron-transfer
reactions in all photosynthetic organisms, leading to energy trap** by reaction center …

We evaluated excitation energy transfer (EET) coupling (J) between all pairs of chlorophylls
(Chls) and pheophytins (Pheos) in the protein environment of photosystem II based on the …