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Govindjee G, Amesz B, Garab G, Stirbet A. Remembering Jan Amesz (1934-2001): a great gentleman, a major discoverer, and an internationally renowned biophysicist of both oxygenic and anoxygenic photosynthesis a. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2024; 160:125-142. [PMID: 38687462 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-024-01102-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2024] [Accepted: 04/18/2024] [Indexed: 05/02/2024]
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We present here the research contributions of Jan Amesz (1934-2001) on deciphering the details of the early physico-chemical steps in oxygenic photosynthesis in plants, algae and cyanobacteria, as well as in anoxygenic photosynthesis in purple, green, and heliobacteria. His research included light absorption and the mechanism of excitation energy transfer, primary photochemistry, and electron transfer steps until the reduction of pyridine nucleotides. Among his many discoveries, we emphasize his 1961 proof, with L. N. M. Duysens, of the "series scheme" of oxygenic photosynthesis, through antagonistic effects of Light I and II on the redox state of cytochrome f. Further, we highlight the following research on oxygenic photosynthesis: the experimental direct proof that plastoquinone and plastocyanin function at their respective places in the Z-scheme. In addition, Amesz's major contributions were in unraveling the mechanism of excitation energy transfer and electron transport steps in anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria (purple, green and heliobacteria). Before we present his research, focusing on his key discoveries, we provide a glimpse of his personal life. We end this Tribute with reminiscences from three of his former doctoral students (Sigi Neerken; Hjalmar Pernentier, and Frank Kleinherenbrink) and from several scientists (Suleyman Allakhverdiev; Robert Blankenship; Richard Cogdell) including two of the authors (G. Garab and A. Stirbet) of this Tribute.
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- Govindjee Govindjee
- Department of Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, and the Center of Biophysics & Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
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- Albertus Perkstraat 35, 1217 NL, Hilversum, The Netherlands
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- Biological Research Centre, Institute of Plant Biology, HUN-REN, 6726, Szeged, Hungary
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, 71000, Ostrava, Czech Republic
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Orf GS, Collins AM, Niedzwiedzki DM, Tank M, Thiel V, Kell A, Bryant DA, Montaño GA, Blankenship RE. Polymer-Chlorosome Nanocomposites Consisting of Non-Native Combinations of Self-Assembling Bacteriochlorophylls. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2017; 33:6427-6438. [PMID: 28585832 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b01761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Chlorosomes are one of the characteristic light-harvesting antennas from green sulfur bacteria. These complexes represent a unique paradigm: self-assembly of bacteriochlorophyll pigments within a lipid monolayer without the influence of protein. Because of their large size and reduced complexity, they have been targeted as models for the development of bioinspired light-harvesting arrays. We report the production of biohybrid light-harvesting nanocomposites mimicking chlorosomes, composed of amphiphilic diblock copolymer membrane bodies that incorporate thousands of natural self-assembling bacteriochlorophyll molecules derived from green sulfur bacteria. The driving force behind the assembly of these polymer-chlorosome nanocomposites is the transfer of the mixed raw materials from the organic to the aqueous phase. We incorporated up to five different self-assembling pigment types into single nanocomposites that mimic chlorosome morphology. We establish that the copolymer-BChl self-assembly process works smoothly even when non-native combinations of BChl homologues are included. Spectroscopic characterization revealed that the different types of self-assembling pigments participate in ultrafast energy transfer, expanding beyond single chromophore constraints of the natural chlorosome system. This study further demonstrates the utility of flexible short-chain, diblock copolymers for building scalable, tunable light-harvesting arrays for technological use and allows for an in vitro analysis of the flexibility of natural self-assembling chromophores in unique and controlled combinations.
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory , Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University , University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
- Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University , Tokyo, Japan 192-0397
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University , University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
- Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University , Tokyo, Japan 192-0397
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- Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University , Manhattan, Kansas 66506, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University , University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University , Bozeman, Montana 59717, United States
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory , Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
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Pšenčík J, Butcher SJ, Tuma R. Chlorosomes: Structure, Function and Assembly. THE STRUCTURAL BASIS OF BIOLOGICAL ENERGY GENERATION 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-8742-0_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Saga Y, Saiki T, Takahashi N, Shibata Y, Tamiaki H. Scrambled Self-Assembly of Bacteriochlorophyllscandein Aqueous Triton X-100 Micelles. Photochem Photobiol 2013; 90:552-9. [DOI: 10.1111/php.12219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2013] [Accepted: 11/28/2013] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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- Yoshitaka Saga
- Department of Chemistry; Faculty of Science and Engineering; Kinki University; Higashi-Osaka Japan
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- Department of Chemistry; Faculty of Science and Engineering; Kinki University; Higashi-Osaka Japan
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- Department of Chemistry; Faculty of Science and Engineering; Kinki University; Higashi-Osaka Japan
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- Department of Chemistry; Graduate School of Science; Tohoku University; Sendai Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences; Ritsumeikan University; Kusatsu Japan
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Linnanto JM, Korppi-Tommola JEI. Exciton Description of Chlorosome to Baseplate Excitation Energy Transfer in Filamentous Anoxygenic Phototrophs and Green Sulfur Bacteria. J Phys Chem B 2013; 117:11144-61. [DOI: 10.1021/jp4011394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Juha M. Linnanto
- Department of Chemistry, P.O.
Box 35, University of Jyväskylä, FIN-40014, Finland
- University of Tartu, Institute of Physics, Riia 142,
EE-51014 Tartu, Estonia
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Shoji S, Hashishin T, Tamiaki H. Construction of Chlorosomal Rod Self-Aggregates in the Solid State on Any Substrates from Synthetic Chlorophyll Derivatives Possessing an Oligomethylene Chain at the 17-Propionate Residue. Chemistry 2012; 18:13331-41. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201201935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2012] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Self-aggregates of natural chlorophylls and their synthetic analogues in aqueous media for making light-harvesting systems. Coord Chem Rev 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2009.12.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Shibata Y, Tateishi S, Nakabayashi S, Itoh S, Tamiaki H. Intensity Borrowing via Excitonic Couplings among Soret and Qy Transitions of Bacteriochlorophylls in the Pigment Aggregates of Chlorosomes, the Light-Harvesting Antennae of Green Sulfur Bacteria. Biochemistry 2010; 49:7504-15. [DOI: 10.1021/bi100607c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Yutaka Shibata
- Division of Material Science (Physics), Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan
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- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan
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- Division of Material Science (Physics), Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan
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Bañeras L, Gich F, Martinez-Medina M, Miller M, Abella CA, Borrego CM. New phylotypes of mesophilic filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria enriched from sulfide-containing environments. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS 2009; 1:86-93. [PMID: 23765724 DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2008.00009.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Agar-based solid media with increasing concentrations of organic matter were used to isolate new members of the Chloroflexaceae (phylum Chloroflexi) from mesophilic environments containing sulfide. Inorganic media yielded less than 10% positive enrichments, which were not able to be maintained after repetitive inoculations in fresh medium. The use of casaminoacids and complex organic acid mixtures increased the number of positive enrichments (up to 45%) from both water and sediment samples. Two different green filamentous bacteria, SisoF2 and SalF, could be stably maintained as co-cultures for long periods and their phylogeny inferred from the analysis of complete sequences of the 16S rRNA gene. Ribotype SalF showed a high homology (95-98%) to previously isolated Oscillochloris trichoides strains. The 16S rRNA gene sequence retrieved from culture SisoF2 was largely divergent (< 92% similarity) from any sequence derived from either cultured representatives or environmental samples, suggesting that ribotype SisoF2 may constitute a new genus within the phylum. The presence of the new morphotypes in the environment from where they were enriched was analysed by high-resolution phylogenetic fingerprinting.
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- L Bañeras
- Molecular Microbial Ecology Group, Institute of Aquatic Ecology and Department of Biology, University of Girona, Campus Montilivi, E-17071, Girona, Spain. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230, Odense, Denmark
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Didraga C, Knoester J. Optical spectra and localization of excitons in inhomogeneous helical cylindrical aggregates. J Chem Phys 2006; 121:10687-98. [PMID: 15549954 DOI: 10.1063/1.1807825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We study the linear optical properties of helical cylindrical molecular aggregates accounting for the effects of static diagonal disorder. Absorption, linear dichroism, and circular dichroism spectra are presented, calculated using brute force numerical simulations and a modified version of the coherent potential approximation that accounts for finite size effects by using the appropriate open boundary conditions. Excellent agreement between both approaches is found. It is also shown that the inclusion of disorder results in a better agreement between calculated and measured spectra for the chlorosomes of green bacteria as compared to our previous report, where we restricted ourselves to homogeneous cylinders [Didraga, Klugkist, and Knoester, J. Phys. Chem. B 106, 11474 (2002)]. For the excitons that govern the optical response, we also investigate the disorder-induced localization properties. By analyzing an autocorrelation function of the exciton wave function, we find a strongly anisotropic localization behavior, closely following the properties of chiral wave functions which previously have been found for homogenoeus helical cylinders [Didraga and Knoester, J. Chem. Phys. 121, 946 (2004)]. It is shown that the circular dichroism spectrum may still show a strong dependence on the cylinder length, even when the exciton wave function is localized in a region small compared to the cylinder's size.
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- Cătălin Didraga
- Institute for Theoretical Physics and Materials Science Centre, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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Saga Y, Tamiaki H. Comparison between chlorosomes containing bacteriochlorophyll-c and chlorosomes containing bacteriochlorophyll-d isolated from two substrains of green sulfur photosynthetic bacterium Chlorobium vibrioforme NCIB 8327. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY 2005; 75:89-97. [PMID: 15246355 DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2004.05.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2004] [Revised: 05/29/2004] [Accepted: 05/30/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Chlorosomes containing bacteriochlorophyll(BChl)-c and those containing BChl-d were isolated from two substrains of Chlorobium vibrioforme f. sp. thiosulfatophilum NCIB 8327, respectively. The two types of chlorosomes were investigated from the following aspect, what kinds of effects the molecular structure of chlorosomal BChls had on structural and spectroscopic properties of in vivo self-aggregates in chlorosomes without alteration of the other components such as chlorosomal proteins and lipids; both chlorosomes were expected to have the same components except for light-harvesting BChls. In their visible absorption spectra, the differences of Soret and Q(y) peak positions between BChl-c containing and BChl-d containing chlorosomes were similar to the differences between monomeric BChl-c and d. An inverse S-shaped CD signal in the Q(y) region of BChl-d containing chlorosomes was 1.4 times larger than that of BChl-c containing chlorosomes, when the Q(y) absorbance of the two chlorosomes was almost the same. This implies that the excitonic interaction of BChl-d is larger than that of BChl-c in natural chlorosomes. Resonance Raman spectroscopy showed that BChl self-assemblies in both chlorosomes were essentially formed by the same local structural interaction among 3(1)-hydroxy group, 13-keto group, and central magnesium. BChl-d self-aggregates in chlorosomes were more tolerant of 1-hexanol than in vivo BChl-c aggregates, suggesting that the molecular structure of BChl-d provided more stable self-assemblies than BChl-c in natural chlorosomes.
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- Yoshitaka Saga
- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan
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Psencík J, Ma YZ, Arellano JB, Hála J, Gillbro T. Excitation energy transfer dynamics and excited-state structure in chlorosomes of Chlorobium phaeobacteroides. Biophys J 2003; 84:1161-79. [PMID: 12547796 PMCID: PMC1302692 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(03)74931-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The excited-state relaxation within bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) e and a in chlorosomes of Chlorobium phaeobacteroides has been studied by femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy at room temperature. Singlet-singlet annihilation was observed to strongly influence both the isotropic and anisotropic decays. Pump intensities in the order of 10(11) photons x pulse(-1) x cm(-2) were required to obtain annihilation-free conditions. The most important consequence of applied very low excitation doses is an observation of a subpicosecond process within the BChl e manifold (approximately 200-500 fs), manifesting itself as a rise in the red part of the Q(y) absorption band of the BChl e aggregates. The subsequent decay of the kinetics measured in the BChl e region and the corresponding rise in the baseplate BChl a is not single-exponential, and at least two components are necessary to fit the data, corresponding to several BChl e-->BChl a transfer steps. Under annihilation-free conditions, the anisotropic kinetics show a generally slow decay within the BChl e band (10-20 ps) whereas it decays more rapidly in the BChl a region ( approximately 1 ps). Analysis of the experimental data gives a detailed picture of the overall time evolution of the energy relaxation and energy transfer processes within the chlorosome. The results are interpreted within an exciton model based on the proposed structure.
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- Jakub Psencík
- Department of Chemistry, Biophysical Chemistry, Umeå University, S-901 87 Umeå, Sweden.
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Saga Y, Oh-oka H, Hayashi T, Tamiaki H. Presence of Exclusively Bacteriochlorophyll-c Containing Substrain in the Culture of Green Sulfur Photosynthetic Bacterium Chlorobium vibrioforme Strain NCIB 8327 Producing Bacteriochlorophyll-d. ANAL SCI 2003; 19:1575-9. [PMID: 14696917 DOI: 10.2116/analsci.19.1575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The light-dependent composition change of light harvesting bacteriochlorophyll(BChl)s in the present culture of a green sulfur photosynthetic bacterium Chlorobium (Chl.) vibrioforme f. sp. thiosulfatophilum strain NCIB 8327 was investigated by visible absorption spectroscopy and HPLC analyses. When the culture was repeatedly grown in liquid media under a low light condition, both the Soret and Qy absorption bands of the in vivo spectrum were shifted to longer wavelengths. Analysis of the extracted pigments by HPLC revealed that the ratio of the amount of BChl-c to that of BChl-d molecules gradually increased during repeated cultivation. In contrast, when the culture grown under a low light intensity was transferred to a high light condition and continued to be grown, the absorption bands were shifted to shorter wavelengths and the ratio of BChls-c/d decreased finally to the almost original value. Colonies were prepared on solid agar media from the liquid culture containing both BChls-c and d, which was grown under a low light intensity. Each colony obtained was found to contain either BChl-c or d, but not both of them. Two types of cells isolated in this study were derived from the same clone, judged from their genetic analyses. The variation of pigment composition in our liquid culture observed here could be ascribed to the difference of growth rates between two substrains containing BChl-c and BChl-d, respectively, depending on light conditions.
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- Yoshitaka Saga
- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan
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Didraga C, Klugkist JA, Knoester J. Optical Properties of Helical Cylindrical Molecular Aggregates: The Homogeneous Limit. J Phys Chem B 2002. [DOI: 10.1021/jp026217s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Cǎtǎlin Didraga
- Institute for Theoretical Physics and Materials Science Centre, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands, and Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics and Materials Science Centre, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands, and Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics and Materials Science Centre, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands, and Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
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Eisen JA, Nelson KE, Paulsen IT, Heidelberg JF, Wu M, Dodson RJ, Deboy R, Gwinn ML, Nelson WC, Haft DH, Hickey EK, Peterson JD, Durkin AS, Kolonay JL, Yang F, Holt I, Umayam LA, Mason T, Brenner M, Shea TP, Parksey D, Nierman WC, Feldblyum TV, Hansen CL, Craven MB, Radune D, Vamathevan J, Khouri H, White O, Gruber TM, Ketchum KA, Venter JC, Tettelin H, Bryant DA, Fraser CM. The complete genome sequence of Chlorobium tepidum TLS, a photosynthetic, anaerobic, green-sulfur bacterium. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002; 99:9509-14. [PMID: 12093901 PMCID: PMC123171 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.132181499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 263] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2002] [Accepted: 03/28/2002] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The complete genome of the green-sulfur eubacterium Chlorobium tepidum TLS was determined to be a single circular chromosome of 2,154,946 bp. This represents the first genome sequence from the phylum Chlorobia, whose members perform anoxygenic photosynthesis by the reductive tricarboxylic acid cycle. Genome comparisons have identified genes in C. tepidum that are highly conserved among photosynthetic species. Many of these have no assigned function and may play novel roles in photosynthesis or photobiology. Phylogenomic analysis reveals likely duplications of genes involved in biosynthetic pathways for photosynthesis and the metabolism of sulfur and nitrogen as well as strong similarities between metabolic processes in C. tepidum and many Archaeal species.
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- Jonathan A Eisen
- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.
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Prokhorenko VI, Holzwarth AR, Müller MG, Schaffner K, Miyatake T, Tamiaki H. Energy Transfer in Supramolecular Artificial Antennae Units of Synthetic Zinc Chlorins and Co-aggregated Energy Traps. A Time-Resolved Fluorescence Study,. J Phys Chem B 2002. [DOI: 10.1021/jp0125754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- V. I. Prokhorenko
- Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie, Postfach 101365, D-45413 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, Department of Materials Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Ryukoku University, Otsu, Shiga, 520-2194, Japan, and Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie, Postfach 101365, D-45413 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, Department of Materials Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Ryukoku University, Otsu, Shiga, 520-2194, Japan, and Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie, Postfach 101365, D-45413 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, Department of Materials Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Ryukoku University, Otsu, Shiga, 520-2194, Japan, and Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie, Postfach 101365, D-45413 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, Department of Materials Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Ryukoku University, Otsu, Shiga, 520-2194, Japan, and Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie, Postfach 101365, D-45413 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, Department of Materials Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Ryukoku University, Otsu, Shiga, 520-2194, Japan, and Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie, Postfach 101365, D-45413 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, Department of Materials Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Ryukoku University, Otsu, Shiga, 520-2194, Japan, and Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan
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Zinc analogues of bacteriochlorophylls c and d self-assembled in aqueous media with phospholipids. A methanol solution of zinc chlorin and alpha-lecithin was put in a cellulose tube and the inner methanol solvent was gradually replaced with water by dialysis to form the self-assembled oligomers. Visible absorption spectra of the aqueous solution showed that zinc chlorins formed J-aggregates within the hydrophobic core of alpha-lecithin assemblies and that the supramolecular structure of the aggregates depended upon the stereochemistry at the 3(1)-position and the alkyl substituents at the 8-, 12-, and 17(4)-positions of the zinc chlorin. When the aqueous aggregates were prepared with a mixture of 3(1)-epimers and/or 8-, 12-, or 17(4)-homologues of zinc 3(1)-hydroxy-13(1)-oxochlorins, the structurally distinct components coaggregated to make scrambled oligomers. However, during the dialysis, zinc 3(1)-hydroxy- and 7(1)-hydroxy-13(1)-oxochlorins slowly individually aggregated to give two structurally different oligomer units in the cellulose tube. In contrast, if the two zinc chlorin components rapidly self-assembled in an aqueous medium, these components coaggregated to form scrambled oligomers. The present study shows that both the molecular structure of the pigments and the speed of the oligomerization determine the molecular arrangement in chlorosome-type self-assembled oligomers.
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- T Miyatake
- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan
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Prokhorenko VI, Steensgaard DB, Holzwarth AR. Exciton dynamics in the chlorosomal antennae of the green bacteria Chloroflexus aurantiacus and Chlorobium tepidum. Biophys J 2000; 79:2105-20. [PMID: 11023914 PMCID: PMC1301100 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(00)76458-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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The energy transfer processes in isolated chlorosomes from green bacteria Chlorobium tepidum and Chloroflexus aurantiacus have been studied at low temperatures (1.27 K) by two-pulse photon echo and one-color transient absorption techniques with approximately 100 fs resolution. The decay of the coherence in both types of chlorosomes is characterized by four different dephasing times stretching from approximately 100 fs up to 300 ps. The fastest component reflects dephasing that is due to interaction of bacteriochlorophylls with the phonon bath, whereas the other components correspond to dephasing due to different energy transfer processes such as distribution of excitation along the rod-like aggregates, energy exchange between different rods in the chlorosome, and energy transfer to the base plate. As a basis for the interpretation of the excitation dephasing and energy transfer pathways, a superlattice-like structural model is proposed based on recent experimental data and computer modeling of the Bchl c aggregates (1994. Photosynth. Res. 41:225-233.) This model predicts a fine structure of the Q(y) absorption band that is fully supported by the present photon echo data.
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- V I Prokhorenko
- Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie, D-45413, Mülheim a.d. Ruhr, Germany
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