Abstract
The light-harvesting protein C-phycocyanin (PC) in the trimeric aggregation state, isolated from the cyanobacterium synechococcus sp. PCC 7002, is studied by absorption spectroscopy and by time-resolved anisotropic fluorescence spectroscopy with 1 ps time resolution. PC trimers isolated from the wild-type strain and a mutant strain, cpcB/C155S, in which the β155 chromophore is missing are compared. The absorption spectra of the trimeric PCs, when compared with previously published spectra of the monomeric PCs, lead us to conclude that the absorption spectrum of the β155 chromophore is similar when PC is in the monomeric and trimeric states. This means that the red shift of the absorption spectrum that occurs when PC aggregates from monomers to trimers is due to changes in the spectra of α84 and/or β84 chromophores. Results of present study are in excellent agreement with Foerster calculations in the weak coupling limit for prediction of decay times in a pigment protein.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 8420-8431 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Journal of physical chemistry |
Volume | 99 |
Issue number | 20 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1995 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Engineering(all)
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry